Fergus Johnston

composer.

[Fergus Johnston @MusicFergusJ]

Fergus Johnston's "Binn an tSíorsholais" https://t.co/EsIyotYdfk via @YouTube

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@Keir_Starmer You’re not at all appalled by Israel’s attacks on Palestinians, though , are you? Hypocrite!

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My entry for Indie Film Music Contest 2025 using an Original film by Su... https://t.co/1qAuQJ5vua via @YouTube

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Fergus Johnston Two Pieces for Clarinet and Piano https://t.co/hn8wq0Wivt via @YouTube

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obtain musical tuition now? This is another step on the road towards barbarism.
Shame. Shame. Shame.

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closing, should be an active part of a community-based and subsidised education programme, supported by government policy (whether local or otherwise), and funded by the same. Instead of shutting the doors, it should be expanding. How are the local community in South Dublin to

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cultural endeavour should be subject to fiscal fortitude? You cannot run a school like a business. A business has to make a profit. A school's sole purpose is to educate and foster growth in consciousness. The two things are totally different. Newpark Music Centre, instead of

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and taught there for 8 years, where she was much loved by her students.
We both loved Newpark, its atmosphere, its friendliness, its openness, its nurturing nature. We are both appalled at the decision taken by the board to wind the company up. When did it become the rule that

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by how they managed to "syndicate" the school to one of the big American Universities (I forget which one) to give accreditation to the jazz qualifications they were offering.
Subsequent to my second wife coming to Ireland in 2000, she became a violin teacher in the Music Centre,

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adding Leaving Cert music to the list of courses I offered, along with an adult course in the Adult Education Centre. I watched the Centre grow, I saw the jazz department founded by Ronan and Conor Guilfoyle, saw it flourish, and after I stopped teaching in 1992, I was impressed

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I was impressed most of all by the fact that they placed community service on the top of their list of ideals - the idea that the music school should serve the community in which it was based to the greatest of its ability was always to the fore. For 10 years I taught there,

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I started my music-teaching career as a student, and my first proper job after I finished University in 1982 was in Newpark Music Centre, where Simon Taylor, William Watson, and Anne Fuller interviewed me for the position of clarinet and recorder teacher. I got the job...

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@dwyer_benjamin 100% with you.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Western governments that are so horrified by the Palestinian attack on Israel are the same governments that have remained silent as Israel turns off the electricity to the prison that is Gaza – once again, claiming 'retaliation'.

Strangely, Western officials understand it is a war crime when Russia bombs power stations in Ukraine, turning off the lights. They scream for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be dragged to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. So why is it so difficult for them to understand the parallels of what Israel is doing to Gaza?

An excerpt from my latest: 'The West's hypocrisy towards Gaza's breakout is stomach-turning'
https://t.co/5yunsiDOyt

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@Gerashchenko_en Capitalism doesn’t care to whom it sells its products. Panzer tanks during WW2 were powered by Ford engines

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@seanlclancy Great names!

[Ellen Cranitch @pvespertine]

Support Local !

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@mistereatgalway If you DO compare like with like, as you suggest, making allowances for wages and taxation, you will find that Ireland is STILL far too expensive.

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@justjoe62 @omid9 He’s SCOTTISH!

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

It was twenty years ago today that they murdered David Kelly
to cover up the fact the UK and US had known Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and millions were dying for a lie and for Big Oil.

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@CraigMurrayOrg @paciffreepress From English colonial rule in Ireland: the Pale was a fortified ditch which surrounded the greater Dublin area. Beyond the Pale was where the savage Irish held sway.