@GregDaly

Jack of many trades, master of some. Editor, @leavenmag, '1916: The Church & the Rising'. Author, 'Cannae: The Experience of Battle'. Multiple CMA award winner.

 Drogheda, Ireland
leavenmagazine.ie
Joined June 2015
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I’m still hopeful this shattering ship will be with us a while yet, but I’ve branched out elsewhere just in case. I’m not yet sold on Mastodon, but I like the other Twitter that’s not Twitter, while @RadiopaperHQ is pleasant and thoughtful whenever I dip my toes into the water.
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Ethan Caron@EthanCaron13Oct 25
If you like animation, go watch Wildwood. If you like Lord of the Rings, go watch Wildwood. If you like Chronicles of Narnia, go watch Wildwood. If you like fairytales, go watch Wildwood. If you like movies, go watch Wildwood. If you hate AI, GO WATCH WILDWOOD!!!!
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Go see it, amazing stuff
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‘WILDWOOD’ opened with $11M domestically. The second lowest opening for a LAIKA film.
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I see Imperial John has been having a normal one today. For all that the British university system is in huge trouble today with the jobs it’s shedding across the board, we probably shouldn’t gloss over its past problems over the decades in sustaining utter spoofers.
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As WB Yeats might have said, this is no country for paper bags.
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It’s exhausting whenever an Irish news story goes international. Those commenting - even from nextdoor - are almost invariably clueless as to the context and detail of whatever they spout on about. With bigger countries at least there tends to be some awareness.
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It’s wild seeing people prejudging the film - not just being intrigued or slightly sceptical - based on a trailer. You’d hope people would’ve learned from ‘The Odyssey’.
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@NarniaMovieOct 13
A Universe Begins. See how Narnia was created in Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, a film by Greta Gerwig - only in theaters February 12.
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It’s genuinely mad that not merely do @ikea not have an email for complaints, but that when you ring them they refuse to acknowledge in writing any complaints. Allegedly having concerns raised on their file is enough. Are people expected to submit subject access requests?
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(They do have an email for complaints. It is buried in their terms and conditions. Staff (or at least one member of staff) say they are not allowed to disclose the email, but they can direct people to the terms and conditions. Whether complaint emails are answered we shall see…)
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What a time to be a Classics teacher, able to explain that classical Greeks didn’t do domes, that the Greeks had real issues with Achilles’ suicidal thirst for glory, that the American founding fathers favoured Greece over Rome, and ask whether ostracism could be a worthy tool.
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Drogheda looked well this morning.
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Nick Harris@sportingintelOct 4
What a brilliant paragraph, laughed out loud at the last sentence of it.
Jonathan Wilson@jonawilsOct 4
City should be stripped of titles and the roll of honour left blank. theguardian.com/football/202…

Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there |...

The spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice

theguardian.com
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Rather than repeat my lethargic update for August, here’s my September reading. Instructive in many ways, and surprising in some. There isn’t anything here I wouldn’t wholeheartedly recommend.
Greg Daly@GregDalySep 27
Somehow I never posted my August reading, which got bogged down after the profundities of the Pope’s encyclical on living in an AI world, such that it’s only now I’m finishing other books off. The Richter book on Ireland’s first historical millennium, fwiw, is fascinating.
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There’s something tedious about Liverpool fans whinging about Man City. Yes, City should have their titles stripped barred from the English top flight for a few years, and fined to compensate other clubs for what they did with a team they shouldn’t have been able to field. /1
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But to act as though somehow Liverpool was specially wronged, given the kid gloves they were treated with after Heysel - punished just a bit more than other teams who were actually innocent, and depriving those teams of years of European competition and all that went with it… /2
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I don’t think it’s especially outrageous either for a former mayor of Manchester to be concerned about the damage that could be done to his old city if an institution that’s been central to its rebuilding and reinvigoration were to be wiped out. It’s not simple. 3/3
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Good morning. Looks like Autumn’s finally kicking in. Drogheda looks well in the mist.
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Somehow I never posted my August reading, which got bogged down after the profundities of the Pope’s encyclical on living in an AI world, such that it’s only now I’m finishing other books off. The Richter book on Ireland’s first historical millennium, fwiw, is fascinating.
Greg Daly@GregDalyAug 7
Just six books in July, which continued the holiday fiction trend with a great introduction to Deighton and the peerless Jackson. The Iliad essays were timely and superb, Dirda on Doyle was fun, Cicero on friendship was excellent, and the Bangor book was definitely worthwhile.
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Well, it’s a dark day. Having hitherto had not even one book in our 7,000-strong collection written by somebody whose name begins with Q (though we have one edited by a Quinn, and a sketchbook by the supposed Quitely), I’ve bought our first authentic Q text. So far it seems good.
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On this, we could all do a lot worse than read ‘Bone and Marrow’, potentially one of the most important books on Ireland in years, a history of Ireland through a parade of significant (but too often forgotten) Irish poets from over the centuries: siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/b…

Bone and marrow / Cnámh agus Smior - An Anthology of Irish poetry from medieval to modern - An...

Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern is the most inclusive and comprehensive anthology of Irish-language poetry to date. Impressive in its breadth...

siopaleabhar.com
Greg Daly@GregDalySep 22
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The reality is that when it comes to familiarity and engagement with the varying strands of Ireland’s intellectual DNA, we’re vastly more likely to be clued in and paying honour to our Anglo-Irish strands than our Gaelic ones, despite the extraordinary richness of the latter. 3/3
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The other day I heard a blowhard warbling about Ireland’s failure to honour its Anglo-Irish heritage, despite half the population being familiar to one degree or another with Swift, Burke, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Usher, Berkeley, Tone, Emmet, Edgeworth, Wilde, Stoker, and more. /1
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If only we were so familiar with the likes of Michael O’Clery, Geoffrey Keating, Luke Wadding, Florence Mulconry, Bonaventure Hussey, Daniel O’Daly, Pádraigín Haicéad, Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, Aogán Ó Rathaille, Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, Brian Merriman, James Clarence Mangan… /2
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The reality is that when it comes to familiarity and engagement with the varying strands of Ireland’s intellectual DNA, we’re vastly more likely to be clued in and paying honour to our Anglo-Irish strands than our Gaelic ones, despite the extraordinary richness of the latter. 3/3
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