Joe Culley
@therealculls.bsky.social
Writer, editor (ex Irish Times, ex History Ireland - nearly ex altogether). History, Golf, Italia. Now doing private walking tours of Dublin - General, Literary, Rebellion - with info@walkingtours.ie.
One of my favourite podcasts. I'm a big fan of Lyric, but never understood why they dropped Donald Helme.
Jazz Ireland@jazzireland.bsky.social · 21h ago🎧 The Hot Box #156 – Everybody Digs Bill Evans As the new Bill Evans film comes to Irish cinemas, Donald Helme spends an hour immersed in the music of one of jazz's great innovators. @breakoutpictures.bsky.social @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social @triskelartscentre.bsky.social #jazzireland #jazz
A reminder that Jolene slowed down to 33rpm is absolute genius. RIP, Dolly 💔 youtube.com/watch?v=doz1...
Jolene at 33 rpm
YouTube video by Tom Berry
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This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this, @gillianbrockell.com #dollyparton
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2d agoThis girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most: 1. Bed goes up, bed goes down 2. Bed goes up, bed goes down 3. Bed goes up, bed goes down 4. Bed goes up, bed goes down 5. Bed goes up, bed goes down
Ickletayto@ickletayto.bsky.social · 3d agoThe five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most: 1. That's good squishy 2. It's all coming up Millhouse 3. Purple is a fruit 4. Chc-chk I said get in (to the Spruce Moose) 5. ... Nothing for 5.. I think I only regularly say the first 3 to be fair.
There's Eamon Horan on the @news.rte.ie @rtesport.bsky.social telling us that Daniel O'Connell visited Bellewstown Racecourse in 1859 - only 12 years after his death.
Everyone is telling you to read this. So am I. Beauty.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d ago“Carney’s official statement deserves to be read in full, slowly, with a beer, because underneath the diplomatic wallpaper it’s the most quietly savage document a G7 leader’s put out in years. It reads like a bank manager foreclosing on a bloke’s entire self-image & the bank manager is enjoying it.”
Post a picture that should be an album cover
Ickletayto@ickletayto.bsky.social · 5d agoPost a picture that should be an album cover
Must do.
Tuatha@tuatha.ie · 5d agoLooking for a trail through time? The village of Carron is located deep within the heart of the Burren, and here you can enjoy a wonderfully atmospheric 5km looped walk that brings you to Temple Cronán. The church stands on an earlier monastic site, with tomb shrines and a holy well. #Ireland
Sorry to hear this (even if he was a great age). Ned was one of a kind. I always got on with him well - mainly because I never argued with him. And the photo here is a wonderful portrait. Former IT rugby correspondent Edmund Van Esbeck has died aged 94 www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
Former Irish Times rugby correspondent Edmund Van Esbeck has died aged 94
Van Esbeck spent more than 30 years covering rugby for The Irish Times
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You all know how much this annoys me, but still: OF COURSE THEY ARE INVESTIGATING. There were two armed robberies. The real news would be: GARDAÍ SAY THEY CAN'T BE ARSED Why are "young" journalists so feckin LAZY? Looking at you @irishtimes.com
Flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, BOLLARD. #WorldBollardAssociation
When I am King, the voices of "adorable" children will be banned from radio advertising.
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head. (not particularly clever, but true)
🍺Donald Clarke 🎥@donaldclarke.bsky.social · last wk.give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
I have strongly mixed feelings about this Healy Rae doc. On the one hand, I can't tolerate the f***ers and want nothing to do with them. On the other, it might, ultimately, be interesting. I know Kerry well and the whole Kilgarvan 'vibe', but you can always learn something.
“The universal church of the future” a 1883 illustration by Joseph Keppler and Adolph Schwarzmann envisioning a future where religion and science were one. Portraits hang of Copernicus, Darwin, Spinoza and Thomas Paine. See more at the TPHA Paine cartoon collection: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli...
My half-sister, who I have never met because she refuses to accept that I exist, was an Irish Supreme Court judge. I only mention it now because I turned on the telly to see the San Francisco Rose. My sister was once the San Francisco Rose.
The ebola virus has withdrawn its support for Infantino.
Nationwide on RTÉ is talking about John McGahern. Only last week I was talking to one of his past pupils from Belgrove in Clontarf. He said McGahern was a vicious bastard for beating the boys. Of course, we know his own terrible childhood. Still
Enjoyed this Why you should quit the coding job and retrain as a philosopher for hire www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Joe Humphreys: Why you should quit the coding job and retrain as a philosopher for hire
US philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their computer science peers
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Dear @news.rte.ie It's not a "news report" if it's just your reporter reading out a Garda press release verbatim. #solazy
We all know that the same arseholes who put up all those tricolours on the lampposts of the North Strand are in their local shouting about how wonderful Rhasidat is. Fuck 'em.
Niche post This is the least important example of how journalism is deteriorating rapidly, but: There is no need whatsoever to use the first name of these players, even in the demented world of search optimisation.
And, arguably, over the millennia, more soldiers died from the consequences of bad toilets than from battle.
Joe Culley@therealculls.bsky.social · 2w agoMost soldiers couldn't expect clean water, never mind warm stuff.