Nicholas Allen
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
Always beautiful, the bronze light of winter, and fleets of lapwings rolling over the water meadows
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Always beautiful, the bronze light of winter, and fleets of lapwings rolling over the water meadows
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First time I've heard these played together ... amazing and as others have said, utterly transporting.
For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night.
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
First time I've heard these played together ... amazing and as others have said, utterly transporting.
Fine morning, faint tang of the sea…
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Fine morning, faint tang of the sea…
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incredible quote lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
incredible quote lol
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
‘It may be, as Blake said of one of his poems, that the author was in eternity.’
W. B. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil
W. B. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil
Eternal whirlwind of lovers in Hell. At least they have each other! Fab illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy by William Blake, who was born on this day in 1757.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
‘It may be, as Blake said of one of his poems, that the author was in eternity.’
W. B. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil
W. B. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil
We get such a long growing year, composted and mulched now and off to sleep for a month or two
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We get such a long growing year, composted and mulched now and off to sleep for a month or two
So fascinating, one random example Alexander Lawther of Belfast, who served in the Iowa Infantry, and by 1899 was back home in Conway Place. So many journeys, and such a different perspective on 19th C Irish life. Bravo @irishacw.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
So fascinating, one random example Alexander Lawther of Belfast, who served in the Iowa Infantry, and by 1899 was back home in Conway Place. So many journeys, and such a different perspective on 19th C Irish life. Bravo @irishacw.bsky.social
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from an Inuit song originally translated
into Danish by Knud Rasmussen —
English version by Autumn Richardson,
Heart of Winter (Xylem Books, 2018)
into Danish by Knud Rasmussen —
English version by Autumn Richardson,
Heart of Winter (Xylem Books, 2018)
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
from an Inuit song originally translated
into Danish by Knud Rasmussen —
English version by Autumn Richardson,
Heart of Winter (Xylem Books, 2018)
into Danish by Knud Rasmussen —
English version by Autumn Richardson,
Heart of Winter (Xylem Books, 2018)
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I once went to a debate between Bourdieu and Hobsbawm. Audience question about the difference between a French and a British intellectual. Bourdieu wittered on for ages. Then Hobsbawm stood up and said “There is no such thing as a British intellectual” and sat down again to much applause.
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I once went to a debate between Bourdieu and Hobsbawm. Audience question about the difference between a French and a British intellectual. Bourdieu wittered on for ages. Then Hobsbawm stood up and said “There is no such thing as a British intellectual” and sat down again to much applause.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you’re in the States and looking for an historical thriller with Irish rebels in 19th C San Francisco, the excellent @mylesdungan.bsky.social has published ‘The Red Branch’, available below.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Red Branch
Check out The Red Branch - <p>Your undercover operation is blown before you get to San Francisco. What next? If you're Orpen, you join the cops. Sort of. </p><p></p><p>It's the Fall of 1883. Irish rev...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you’re in the States and looking for an historical thriller with Irish rebels in 19th C San Francisco, the excellent @mylesdungan.bsky.social has published ‘The Red Branch’, available below.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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A beautiful winter sunset on Dublin’s River Liffey.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A beautiful winter sunset on Dublin’s River Liffey.
For the frozen humanities people
I read a lot of very good new books this year, and if I had to pick one, it'd be Donald Niedekker's Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost wapo.st/48hti5c
Review | In this inventive novel, a long-dead poet narrates from beneath Arctic ice
Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of sly jokes and imaginative surprises.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For the frozen humanities people
Still so many places you can imagine pirates
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Still so many places you can imagine pirates
I feel I put too much thought into my own books
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I feel I put too much thought into my own books
On the salt marsh
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On the salt marsh
could be on another planet
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
could be on another planet
Waxing crescent
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Waxing crescent