Seán Clancy

@seanlclancy.bsky.social

Composer & performer working across the Hibernian archipelago. Ad Astra Fellow, Assistant Professor in UCD. Likes acoustic & electronic sound, minimal & experimental stuff. Formerly Senior lecturer in music at RBC

We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d ago

An Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

The way we stop upland fires is dramatic rewetting and rewilding of our hills and reducing emissions like it's a life or death situation... Using every lever available to the state domestically and internationally to immediately cut emissions everywhere. It's literally the only way we can stop them

Bad night’s sleep in yer 20s: no big deal, just get on with it. Bad night’s sleep in yer 40s+: feels like I’ve been at a 5 day festival, and I ain’t never going to feel well again.

My son’s drawing this morning unbeknownst to him giving credence to one of my friend’s sincere beliefs that Newgrange is in fact an ancient defence system against intergalactic attack…

A child’s drawing in blue ink full of Neolithic spirals and lines that vaguely resembles Newgrange… with an alien type figure hovering above

A crowdfunder for Eugene S. Robinson, who recently suffered a stroke and is currently unable to speak, sing, read or write, has raised 86% of its target amount We encourage all Quietus readers who are able to do so to donate to it here: buff.ly/rzvSwxd

Colour photograph of Eugene S Robinson, sat at a cafe table.

no end to these Noyze Boyz setting up shop here. 250 jobs created, but fast forward 2 years from now, 200 people will be laid off owing to streamlining or Ai. All the while these guys will have paid like 50c in tax or something and burned more of our world. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI selects Dublin docklands offices for new EU hub

AI giant to take on lease at Iput’s Tropical Fruit Warehouse site on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay

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Happy to share this interview today on @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social where I talk about new work, specifically the orchestra piece for the Cabrillo festival premiering August 2. Also notable that we had trans women in this column two weeks in a row :) icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/5-qu...

5 Questions to Sarah Hennies (composer)

Jacob Kopcienski sits down with Sarah Hennies in advance of the premiere of her new work, "The Grain House," at the 2026 Cabrillo Festival.

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