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Patrick Brannigan

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In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · Jan 4

This is but one version of my work history. In it, I'm suggesting that social interactions are vital, hint at issues around managerialism and corporatism (see later episodes!); and how singing in a work choir was life changing...
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BLOG: Gestetner to Office 365: Looking back on my time at Queen's

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 29m

What book is this fragment from? Found on the Lough shore at Strangford.

"Constables working in pairs. Thugs ... population was ... Liverpool. An increase in ... and seven hundred by 1897, ... parallel increase in exposure
... all weathers ... be the worst dangers ...".

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Jagged edge paper scrap surrounded by natural shore debris, stones, decayed flora and fauna

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 5h

Mini-regatta by Audleystown Castle, Strangford Lough; viewed from the foreshore by Strangford woods.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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Small sailing boats with differently coloured sails, coast right and left.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1h

Happened to have R Ulster on, and I hear Kathy Clugston doing a fab job in the Sunday Club seat - Anne Shelton being played at the mo.

John Bennett, a hard act to follow.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1h

Frank Aiken highly thought-off in our family when I was growing up. Non-proliferation

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1h

Alan Kelly TD raises the matter of whistleblowers and of Noel McGree and his family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCO... [lip synch may be off].

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1h

Prominent commentator about President of Ireland- “He certainly enjoyed being president - and, no doubt, people who don’t pay attention had a feeling he did a good job.”

Insulting a whole swathe of people.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve seen v little here about the McGree family and their imminent eviction.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 2h

A not so wee beastie.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 2h

Adelita Grijalva of Arizona
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Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 4h

I was sorry I missed the exhibition in the National Gallery - Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 5h

Mini-regatta by Audleystown Castle, Strangford Lough; viewed from the foreshore by Strangford woods.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 9h

Pope Leo quoted Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, warning that the ideal subject of totalitarian regimes is not someone ideologically committed, but rather someone for whom “the distinction between fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false no longer exist. VA News.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 10h

The Google Car came under the height restrictor
The driver took the merest break to look at his phone.
Was it an Android or an iPhone?
Then he left, and his camera got caught.
The road surface higher on the left.
We laughed but not at him.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 10h

Fab! Where did you get the clip?

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s my contribution to #SmearTheBejaysus

Smear the Bejaysus (for Catherine Connolly) They say she's wild for calling out the killing of the weak, for naming genocide aloud
in chambers cold and sleek. They call it reckless, rude, unwise, to grieve for Gaza's dead, and whisper she'd disgrace the State
by meaning what she said. They claim she'd bring the Áras down with candles, care, and song, that she would ask of Ireland still,
who's served and who's done wrong. They mutter she might shake the hand of refugees or knaves, and never bow to uniforms
that sanctify the graves. They'll smear the bejaysus out of her, for mercy is her crime, for daring to be decent now
in this unfeeling time. They'll sneer she's ruled by conscience yet, speaks truth before she's told, that her plain heart has no disguise,
but that's worth more than gold.

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s to the imperfect, the mislabeled, the beautifully unfitting. This piece is for all of us who will not be named by other people’s judgment. #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and this wonderful community @thebrokenspine.co.uk

The Name You Gave Me
You gave me a name I never asked for,
a word carved from your slant of sight,
what you call incomplete. But 1 know no lack, my world hums with fullness, my life lived in a key
you refuse to hear. You measure in steps, in movements that conform, while I am content in the spaces
where stillness grows its own rhythm. I carry no burden, but your gaze is heavy,
my being
a question left unanswered. Yet I move through my days
whole, free of the silence
you called a name.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 10h

He was passionate about the rules changes but purposely dull during his time as Dublin manager. This was like his work as a company man - talking but giving nothing away. I am sure he was animated when motivating the Dublin team players.

I like your 🦸‍♂️ reference as a glasses wearer, mé féin.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 1d

Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
Free Dr Marwan Al-Hams

They are hostages, they are heroes, they are caged without cause and IsraHell refuses to release them.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 11h

He has been a "company man": an officer, head of a particular type of State Body, annoyingly coy (in public) team manager - where did they get the notion that he could operate in the daunting political public space?

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Dr Kate Kennedy @drkkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

📻 This Sunday 12 October at 19:30 📻

Tune in and listen to the re-release of my BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, ‘The Cello and the Nightingale’, and hear why Beatrice Harrison’s famous recording made history. 🎶

👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#BBCRadio3 #radio3 #cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Cello and the Nightingale

Kate Kennedy examines the events surrounding one of the BBC's first outside broadcasts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) Abstract, 1922. Oil on canvas:
"By the late 1920s, Jellett had, with, her friend and fellow painter Evie Hone, introduced an appreciation of modern painting to Ireland"

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In 1921-22, Jellett studied in Paris with Albert Gleizes, an early exponent of Cubism. In 1923, she exhibited two Cubist works in Dublin that were criticised for their modernity by George Russell. By the late 1920s, Jellett had, with, her friend and fellow painter Evie Hone, introduced an appreciation of modern painting to Ireland.

This has irregular shapes in browns, orange, and grey ranges.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

I decided to stop posting there though I still have an account. I am not keen on posting to Instagram at is another manifestation of Meta. Browsing perhaps is different on any of the platforms

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Mushroom bells!

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

John Lavery - Daylight Raid from my Studio Window., 1917. Donated by Lavery, 1929, #UlsterMuseum
Planes from both sides about to engage in a dogfight. Watched by Hazel, his wife.

The details, scale and the perspective are fascinating.

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141.5 by 89.9 cm

Through the oversized window

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

N side of the Mournes, from #Rossglass.

In the mid-distance, a Heron, Cormorants and more stationed on the rocks. Nearby Oystercathers on the tide line.

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