“What do you do when the island you are born on, doesn't feel like home?”

The Ghost Limb - RTÉ Radio 1

Northern Ireland Protestant author, Claire Mitchell, frustrated at having no place to call home, embarks on a historical and magical journey, to heal what she calls her Ghost Limb.

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Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

…”independent theaters are programmed by humans who understand the tastes and desires of their community rather than just programming for the bottom line.”

‘There’s excitement in the air’: how America fell back in love with indie cinemas

With unexpected programming and a community ethos, independent cinemas across the US are giving multiplexes a run for their money

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Before and after shots of the ILT in-house motivation coach when he realises it's Friday:

I maintain a running list of unusual nouns Belfast natives describe to me as “wee”. Yesterday I collected an all timer: “wee crypt”

Mark Cousins enjoys showing us things we haven’t seen before. As a filmmaker and writer, his work has repeatedly challenged the way cinema history is told.

The Interview: Mark Cousins

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#BloomsDay. On 10 June 1904 Nora Barnacle first met James Joyce while walking in Nassau St. Dublin. He was supposedly so attracted to her that he walked up and presented himself. Their second meeting was on 16th June, the date immortalised by Joyce in 'Ulysses'. www.dib.ie/biography/ba... #DIBLives

“Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.”

David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died

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On #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, we remember union organiser Mary 'Mother Harris' Jones who led a ‘children's crusade’ against child labour in 1903, which included a 145km march from Philadelphia to New York City. She was active in the labour movement into her 90s. www.dib.ie/biography/jo...

‘Documentary will always exist, because we need to understand ourselves...’ Fascinating interview with film-maker Mark Cousins from @headstuff.bsky.social: headstuff.org/entertainmen... We are proud to publish Mark’s ‘Dear Orson Welles’: irishpages.org/product/dear... @brian-bowe.bsky.social

49 years ago today The BBC announced a ban on the new Sex Pistols single 'God Save The Queen' saying it's, "in gross bad taste". #punk #punks #punkrock #GodSaveTheQueen #sexpistols #history #punkrockhistory

I knew the time of day when though it is hot and blue and there are no clouds, the sky can have a very black look.

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.” Miles Davis was born on May 26th, 1926 in Alton, Illinois.

The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music | Editorial

Editorial: The trumpeter, composer and band leader still towers over jazz because he treated reinvention not as a betrayal, but as necessary for its survival

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“We shouldn’t be too surprised, as when two languages are pushed close to extinction, a significant amount of folk memory is lost from both. Stories need tellers and listeners to be passed on.”

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2mo ago

Every schoolchild now knows of the gift the Choctaw Nation gave to the Irish during the Famine but it wasn't always so. Losing a language can mean losing folk memory. jrnl.ie/7048199

…”there is radical potential in the discovery that the widely recognised psychological rewards of creativity may be mirrored in our cells.”

The Guardian view on public health and the arts: the all-singing, all-dancing science of ageing | Editorial

Editorial: New research showing that a rich cultural life brings brings similar benefits to exercise shows human creativity in a new light

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Another poll showing a 71% in share of Albertans against independence

“A language alone does not save a community from poor mental health, of course, but it may be an indicator of the cultural resilience that does.”

What happens when we lose a language?

A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake

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“What remains is a tension at the heart of the act of telling itself; knowing no account will ever be enough, how do you tell stories of such unspeakable horrors?”

Gaza at the Venice Biennale: Where language falls short, threads take over

I co-commissioned the Gaza Genocide Tapestry which will be displayed at the Venice Biennale. Here's the story behind it.

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“The anti-datacenter movement, in other words, isn’t just about the future of a novel technology. It’s about the future of democracy. It’s about who controls the economy and whether regular people have a say in the decisions that affect them.”

The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

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"A country cannot indefinitely sell itself abroad while neglecting what it is at home." - Sinéad O'Sullivan, Irish Times.

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and you don't notice it.” —Shug Avery ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker (1982)

The Frogs Sing Loudly in Spring Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2021

The brilliant documentary series that began with ‘7 Up’ in 1964, is coming to an end.

Asif Kapadia Taking Over From Michael Apted to Conclude Landmark Brit Docuseries ‘7 Up’

The groundbreaking UK series 7 Up, that since 1964 has captured the lives of a group of Brits every seven years, is to conclude with 70 Up

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East End girl, doing the Lambeth Walk Bill Brandt, c. 1936

Carney has emerged as the de facto leader of the not-Trump west. Largely on the principle of keeping calm and carrying on - similar to this Pope. Refusing to enter Trump’s world of permachaos and focussing on short, medium and long term practicality seems to drive DT mad. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney secures majority government with sweep of 3 byelections | CBC

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“It is hard now to comprehend the moral climate of 20th-century Ireland, and the level of repression it imposed.”

The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girls

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April 13th: a good date for Irish writing Samuel Beckett (1906) Seamus Heaney (1939)