@JamesMarsh79 I don’t know your background but I lost my mum earlier this year. I was in so much pain / sleepless the first few days. The parallels are awfully bittersweet and poignant. She celebrated her own 50th wedding ann. with my dad in early Feb, only to pass away on 24/2. Stay strong.
LATEST PODCAST:
Historian Colum Kenny joins me to discuss his book on Arthur Griffith and the real story behind Griffith’s Irish economics.
https://t.co/fEwA3UFhZs
'Murdoch has more to offer on the subject of politics than the woolly Platonism often projected onto her.'
Nikhil Krishnan on Iris Murdoch’s political progress
https://t.co/UlJtCPb6B1
“Although there were many literary groups and cliques in Dublin, he was not part of any of them.”
Colm Tóibín on John Broderick. https://t.co/nmu0xfzT6T
“I saw John Broderick once. It must have been about 1980 … He was wearing a beautifully cut three-piece suit with elaborate stripes. He was alone and he looked desolate.”
Colm Tóibín on John Broderick. https://t.co/nmu0xfzT6T
'Impossible to read Plato without seeing that the whole of religion is there as well as the whole of philosophy & that they are one.'
Iris Murdoch's Journal, 30th May 1975
'At Christmas Murdoch became more poetic, more vulnerable, more loving and more spiritually needy than perhaps even she understood.'
Anne Rowe on what Christmas meant to Iris Murdoch
https://t.co/uTjvbLe6aP
There’s no doubt that Dublin’s restoration award of the year 2024 goes to @coffeeangel’s resurrection of the J. O’Grady & Co. shopfront at 1-2 Lower Mount Street just off Merrion Square, that languished for years under a heap of roller shutters, signage panels and beauty board 🧵
We're in a Kilkenny theatre about to watch a session on -what else - money. I'm deep in intellectual bro-ville with @nntaleb@rorysutherland at @kilkenomics and it's jolly late. No fun is being had at all, I promise you.