https://t.co/pWXmpTLqjX
I had the pleasure of helping bring the O'Brien/New Theatre archive to Maynooth - international socialism, the Spanish Civil War, artistic spats and more: there's a great doctoral project on it for someone seeking to apply to IRC/Hume at Maynooth
@jocularfowl ... if Intellect
Itself were absolute law, sufficient grace,
Our lives could be a myth of captivity
Which we might enter: an unpeopled region
Of ever new-fallen snow, a palace blazing
With perpetual silence as with torches. GH
(something dangerous, too?)
Thanks to Maria for her work on our Bran @poetryjukebox in the Linen Hall Library. We're going to be sharing some of the poems below over the next week. First up, Paul Muldoon, reading Valentin Iremonger, 'Backward Look'
@lcollins232 Listen to the brilliant @seanehewitt read James Liddy's 'Post-Alcoholum Tristis' (photo: Liddy on left in Milwaukee)
https://t.co/pt1TC7nPf4
@lcollins232 Listen to the brilliant @seanehewitt read James Liddy's 'Post-Alcoholum Tristis' (photo: Liddy on left in Milwaukee)
https://t.co/pt1TC7nPf4
some "pre-Bran" business, but delighted to see my book cover for Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State out in November with LUP! Feat. Yeats, Desmond FitzGerald, Denis Devlin, Valentin Iremonger, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Thomas Kinsella, & a guinea pig called Mrs Ezra Pound!
Pleased to see this article on Levy and decolonial cosmopolitanism out in @JournalofModLit. It engages with Fanon's warning below that nationalism ≠ anticolonialism. thanks to @PriyamvadaGopal for hosting at Cambridge where ideas in this paper were first tested
AI is costly to the planet & a product of what Coleridge called 'fancy' "always the ape, and too often the adulterator and counterfeiter of our memory", which is parasitic and creates nothing, unlike the Imagination
@ivanobp@SCA_MULibrary thanks for sending it our way, Ivan! Delighted to have such a vital archive and its (hopeful!) warning that we can act now for tomorrow might be too late
@BranPoetry@SCA_MULibrary It’s great that grandad’s archive is in Maynooth where researchers are actively engaging with his extraordinary life, and those of other brave Irish anti-fascists in the 1930s and beyond.