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Who Suffers Their Penance
Who Suffers Their Penance
She pulled the rental car into the pub’s gravel forecourt. The old petrol pumps were outside, and the large sign advertising the price showed they were still in use. She set the fuel canisters down next to the car and walked into the bar she’d spent so many hours in after Sunday mass. The smell of smoke from the gorse burning had invaded the room, but it wouldn’t put anyone out. It was illegal to…
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I Need A Reality Sandbox, Not Digital Detox
I Need A Reality Sandbox, Not Digital Detox
There’s “always-on,” always connected, and always available. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and co supposedly have a hold over us. They keep us dialed into a world that’s somehow less real than the walls, roofs and weather surrounding us. They keep us hooked into a drip feed of occupied-by-triviality, or slightly less real. So of course when you feel the inanity of a slow and steady bubbling of…
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The Jester's Sickness
An #actor slumming it as a #clown might have let herself in for too much when she agrees to play a sick child's birthday party. #Flash #Fiction. - The Jester's Sickness
Were people entitled to a job, to earn a living, have a roof over their head and have money to buy Jenny another baby fucking shower present? Jenny had offered to hire her for the eldest’s birthday, at half the rate on her website. “For a friend,” was the plea. Marie was tempted to take it. She adjusted her red nose. A degree in the performing arts, two off-Broadway performances (Five Stars in…
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Looking In the Devil's Eyes - Advocating Meatspace
Why it's easier to ask and respond to #questions and #questioning about your situation #offline in real life spaces... Looking In the Devil's Eyes - Advocating Meatspace
There’s an off recited line that people need to educate themselves. That it’s not up to me to bring to you all of my awareness in topics that effect me, whether my awareness is through a life lived as marginalised or oppressed, or years spent delving into a subject with an academic perseverance. Linnea Dunne speaks of this in her blog post explaining the typical encounters of the everyday,…
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Fly Banana - OBheal December 5th 2016 - Five Word Challenge Winning Poem
Here is a #poem I won a free #beer with. My first competitive success in the creative arts, with a prize I can really appreciate.
It was only last week I was saying with maladjusted pride, “I’ve never won a Five Word Challenge at Ó Bhéal.” Maladjusted because my poetry is far too mysterious and deep to be appreciated by a bawdy bunch of drunkards on a damp Monday night. My poetry needs a fireplace, a deep glass of the darkest red wine, and a true willingness to search your heart and soul for the truths I will inspire. Photo…
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Photographic Voyeurism: Intent to See Yourself in Me
Susan #Sontag spoke about the #voyeurism of #photography. I speak about the age old notion that a #photograph is more of the artist than the subject, but I maintain it's also of the viewer.
Reading Susan Sontag’s On Photography can be difficult for a young photographer. Young in years to some, but especially young in discovering my artistic intent, my voice. I borrowed it from the St. John’s photography library so unless I can spare some cash I can’t summon quotes to dissect. (I’d prefer a decent HiFi, or the more achievable new book I haven’t read.) The idea that permeated from…
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The Pub Giants Who Told Our Tales
The Pub Giants Who Told Our Tales, why the #pub is an important setting for telling #stories that can't be ignored for much longer.
I’ve just started submitting some of my work to literary journals. I’m hoping my big, dirty secret isn’t too obvious; I don’t really read. I have stacks of books, and read a huge amount as a child and as a teenager but finishing much beyond photography books these days is a rare thing. I’m thankful I’ve started submitting to literary journals because it’s encouraged me to buy them. I spent last…
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Homelessness: Looking at the Stars and O Bheal's Five Word Challenge
A #poem and some writing about #Homelessness and the Looking at the Stars via O Bheal's Five Word #poetry Challenge
This is a poem I wrote at Ó Bhéal’s poetry night in aid of the Simon Community. It was part of the Five Word Challenge. Five different words are taken from the audience and you have ten to fifteen minutes to scribble out a poem with them. Should you choose to read yours aloud and you get the most applause there’s a free pint up for grabs. This night at O Bheal was in aid of The Simon Community’s…
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Why Write? A Cause: Ó Bhéal and Looking at the Stars
Thoughts from a Simon community poetry night at @OBheal in #CorkCity featuring Looking at the Stars
It was a strange evening at Ó Bhéal s poetry night, even strange for a poetry evening. One reason given that could explain it is the seventeen open mic poetry readers when twelve is typical. Another reason may be that it was the first night I’ve been back to a Monday night poetry session since my newfound full on writer’s ambition was engaged. I suspect the real reason was the focus on a serious…
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Live Review - The Klares - The Crane Lane
A live review of @TheKlares at @CraneLane in #CorkCity I banged out listening to @BBC6Music and @BBDRadMac
I had spent the night requesting songs in the pub. The barwoman indulged me by smiling at every request, then promptly proceeded to play whatever she had in mind anyway. I felt there was a bit of a buzz to it though due to the firm belief my suggestions somehow informed what she lined up next. Theoretically I was in a rock bar, but who knows what rock is anymore? There were blasts of disco from…
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The Real Cost of Culture
Why people don't do theatres, galleries, music and shows. Cheapen art - The Real Cost of Culture
A good friend loves the cinema. Unlike me she has no love for buckets of popcorn nor the almost equally sized trough of Coke. Cinema is cheap (or at least cheaper) for her than me, I pay for all the extras because it wouldn’t be my experience without them. Maybe it’s a holdover of my once in a blue moon childhood cinema visits. My father’s eyes couldn’t hold up to two hours of a bright screen in…
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On Writing: Accoutrements For A Scream
Accoutrements For A Scream - About the trappings of writing poems, blogs and books.
When I was desperately writing poetry I’d search for a sentence in my head. It was constant self-examination of small feelings, passing moments, switched on words, a scream of swearing, but rarely thought. The sign I was ready was the sentence had repeated enough times in my mind to become a mantra. At the smallest level it had become my meaning… I had become those few words and I was ready to…
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Review - Ellll's Romance - Love Lived Music
Teasing something alright. A review of @__ELLL___ and her Romance EP. 1/2 of @WRYMYRRH 1/1 for Music.
I was having a conversation with a woman a few weeks ago. First thing I said to her with my appropriately dulcet screech was, “THE WARRIORS!” She responded…
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Proving the Worried and Weary: #WTFOneThing
Proving the Worried and Weary: #WTFOneThing
Ireland has a long history of mass defection. We’re famous for building the world, and our own part of the world in the four corners of the earth. People have left their homes from famine, economic strife, lack of jobs, and increasingly due to the feeling that those in charge, the managers and CEOs, the government, the local pub, the national sporting organisations and every facet of society they…
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Sneak Peek - A Bad Breakfast - Kid's Writing
A sneak peek of some kids writing about a special breakfast I did a while ago with amazing art from an amazing @CIT_Crawford grad and friend
A Good Breakfast For Bad Girls and Bad Boys Who You Love! A Bad Breakfast by Elisa Ferriter – Work in Progress Burnt Eggs with Hot Sauce and Rashers What is a really bad breakfast? Really, really bad for you? You can only cook it two or three times a year. You would really like to cook it. You would really like to cook it for someone you love! Burnt eggs (eggs are good for you), with hot sauce…
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Graceful Aging - Wine, Vinegar and Fury
An evil bitchy witch. A badge I fight for but can barely wear. - Graceful Aging - Leonard Cohen and HRC included.
My father has been given the dignity to age. In many ways it was my teenage years that aged him, and now my sister’s youthful, hopeful professional endeavours are adding to his cholesterol count. For some reason worry dominates his thoughts, and so a desire to restrict in an effort to protect. He has never been graceful. Considerate in ways I’ve only recently come around to, sure, rather he had a…
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Review - Ben Bickerdike - Just One Song
A 4am review. Oh god it's tomorrow already! Review - Ben Bickerdike - Just One Song
I entered my password wrong twice logging into this site. I entered my password wrong into my world twice. It’s a world for the moment and it seems Ben Bickerdike (Greg Byker Dyke) doesn’t have a world. I don’t even know why I’m reviewing this. No-one will see it. I’m an aul wan writing manic words and he’s a young fella with great production screaming down a microphone. At this point I can…
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