| ▲ | ggm 4 hours ago |
| 200 clicks later... I often find myself drowning in things like the Qld state library photo archives of the suburbs of Brisbane. They name street junctions which still exist, you pull up a modern photo in google maps, you look at the old one with Trams and wooden houses.. And another.. |
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| ▲ | defrost 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Ni bheidh ar leitheidi aris ann.
A line much abused in Myles na gCopaleen's (aka Brian O'Nolan's, aka Flann O'Brien's) An Béal Bocht (trans: The Poor Mouth)(1947)It translates as "Our likes will not be there again." and is originally from An toileánach (1929) - https://archive.org/details/toileanach0000ocro about remote island life. |
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| ▲ | tclancy 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’m not sure what’s happening in this thread, but so happy to see Myles mentioned on HN. Every time I post one of De Selby’s research papers, it gets downvoted to oblivion for some reason. | | |
| ▲ | inopinatus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My gateway drug was The Third Policeman, as read aloud by Patrick Magee on the wireless in 1986, a feat all the more remarkable for a man that was, quite appropriately, dead at the time. | |
| ▲ | ggm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's two kinds of dark suckers. you've met the second kind. It's always saddened me I've been to Dublin 3 times and never made it to Dalkey. I want to pay a courtesy caul.. | | |
| ▲ | osullish 13 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Dalkey is lovely, i used live there for a few years, but couldn't afford to buy a house there. Great to see Flann O'Brien in the comments - an under appreciated genius |
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