Oisín

Financial Journalist (@RIABiz), & Poet.

[Oisín @Breen]

I was so happy my copies arrived from @Downingfield, I...

Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life!

https://t.co/j8zNLS4yCr

#poetry #writing #ireland

[Oisín @Breen]

Whoever decided everything art related needed forms needs punishing.

It's not important 'what the public takes away' from live performance.

Nor 'who' the artist is.

All that matters is quality & craft.

If you think other things ought to be foregrounded, you're a charlatan.

[Oisín @Breen]

There were also so many other interesting comments from others around LinkedIn and other fora that I wished I could have squeezed in -- dozens and dozens!

[Oisín @Breen]

"I'm not scared and neither are my advisors," says Marty Bicknell, of Schwab Wealth Advisory's 'branch' expansion, as RIAs and other industry figures have their say on its likely impact.

Latest for https://t.co/BJpkehUtKo

https://t.co/BpphqBmO0f
#RIA #fintwit #fintech #business

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Chinese 20th century scholar Guo Moruo had a very strong appreciation for the Irish.

He made a poem called “Victorious Death” praising Irish hunger striker Terence MacSwiney.

“Honoured MacSwiney!
/ Dear sons of Ireland, / the spirit of freedom will ever stand by you, / for
you stand by one another, you are the incarnation of freedom!” (99).

It closes with a passionate elegy:

The mighty ocean is sobbing its sad lament,
the boundless abyss of the sky is red with weeping,
far, far away the sun has sunk in the west.
Brave, tragic death! Death in a blaze of glory! Triumphant death!*
Victorious death!
Impartial God of Death! I am grateful to you! You have saved
MacSwiney, for whom my love and reverence know no bounds!
MacSwiney, fighter for freedom, you have shown how great can be the power of
the human will!
I am grateful to you! I extol you! Freedom can henceforth never die!
The night has closed down on us, but how bright is the moon.”

[Oisín @Breen]

@Shareabookclub The group name you list comes up on a Google search as a recognized scam, I'm afraid.

I get around 20 book scam emails a week too.

You may be legit, so if your club buys the book (I'll see sales on Amazon ranking), then I'm happy to answer any qs or contribute, but not before:)

[Oisín @Breen]

I was so happy my copies arrived from @Downingfield, I...

Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life!

https://t.co/j8zNLS4yCr

#poetry #writing #ireland

[Oisín @Breen]

@firebat792 @blixberrie And I agree. I've often wondered what the Irish-Argentines are like.

[Oisín @Breen]

@firebat792 @blixberrie Aye, ditto.

Often creates wonderful fusions & blends :)

This is really just a kind of exceptionalism, butting against the fact that its origin point insists on a hyphen, but is otherwise friendly, and the exceptionalist gets mad, because they're obtuse.

[Oisín @Breen]

@lnx5000 @blixberrie This.

[Oisín @Breen]

@firebat792 @blixberrie I'll buy this.

As to watered down? Nah just different, and good luck to them.

But they're v. culturally different. They are essentially American at this point, they don't 'get' the intangibles. There's just a way you are, when you're from a place vs. when your ancestors are.

[Oisín @Breen]

"I have sewed a new garden fertilized by ash,
The remains of a scorched hive of bees,
And I offer their bodies as a sacrifice."

New work just published: 'Hunger in the Yarrow Stalk.'

In Twenty-Two-Twenty-Eight.

#writing #publishing #poetry #art #writingcommunity

[Oisín @Breen]

@poemPilled I mean, I can't see a downside, other than that well-connected types will still have to do all the grunt work that everyone else has to, which strikes me as a good thing, no? Also means top-tier stuff benefits from a lot more craft. (though we'd still have Vuong, sadly)

[Oisín @Breen]

Honestly, the world (and art) would be much improved if the big presses committed to only publishing writers with a minimum of two books and 50 journal credits under their belts.

[kofi anon @poemPilled]

You guys think alt lit or online lit are like the farm leagues for trad publishing but it's not like that and if that's your goal you're better off not submitting to neocities sites and substack pages

[Oisín @Breen]

@stoneandthestar I like your style :) God damn though... Here, our house (modest 3 bed) is 1.9k in council tax. There it would be 1k... half the price! Jesus. How on Earth is somewhere in London half the price in council tax?

[Oisín @Breen]

Ah joy, my council tax just came through. I just love paying council tax. I always know that my overpriced annual contribution to the city is well spent, largely avoids bureaucratic bloat, and provides the vital services we all need.

Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

[Oisín @Breen]

@goodbyeleninxcx Wow. That guy is a fucking fruitloop.

[Oisín @Breen]

Basil fried bread stuffed with an egg, topped with red pepper cottage cheese sauce, topped with paprika tofu, topped with sauerkraut, topped with soy honey fried mushrooms.

[Oisín @Breen]

@FinnishGear It's illegal to forage?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Castrate these bastards

[Oisín @Breen]

Open twitter nowadays. Oh look, someone has a totalising view that explains the universe. Oh look ok, someone is outraged.

How many of you people just do silly shit and laugh?

[Oisín @Breen]

"I am become the tender fuchsia tree,
As it sings its grapples upwards,
In delicate stretches,
Each soon to turn thick bark."

New poetry just published in TwentyTwoTwentyEight.

One of two pieces.

https://t.co/Gc8NagZjEP

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #literature #writing

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

Schwab is opening up advisory offices in 30 upscale markets w/ 300 advisors by end of year after seeing wild success with a pilot program. This is big news given so many RIAs are clients of Schwab and now it will be competing w them (and Schwab charges relatively low fees, 30-80bps for full service). One guy calling it a "Wake up call" for advisors. Great story from @RIABiz ht @EconomPic