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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:46:00 +0000

It’s common currency on the web; there is even a section about the perso. Type F…..t into your engine’s immense data banks and see hat you get.

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By: kevin b

kevin b — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:40:34 +0000

Melissa

Apologies accepted. I’m heartened to see that while s****y scatological language will not be tolerated on the blog, sexual swearing is OK. Or did I sneak that one under the radar?

*%$*!!

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By: kevin b

kevin b — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:42:25 +0000

Nora, does the Pope ***** [Ed: apologies Kevin - not appropriate word here] in the woods? Are bears Catholic? (er, got a bit confused there.) My mother hailed from a Connemara whitewashed cottage by the Atlantic (Cashel, nr Roundstone) and my father’s side are from outside Dublin (the other line from the East End and beyond that Germany, Russia, who knows).

The last time I was back I cycled round the relatives (Dublin > Galway > Tipperary) and I’m now planning a return visit after 20 years with family in tow. (Ah, hello Mad Uncle John or should I say the Wild Man of Borneo, no I haven’t eaten, tea would be super…)

I hear that people talk about property prices all the time in the cities but that places like Galway are also very cosmopolitan with gay culture notably visible in a way which must get old bastards like Father O’****wit howling with rage.

The Radiators are not well known but their front guy Philip Chevron went on to join the Pogues. Say no more.

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By: Nora

Nora — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:26:02 +0000

I’m afraid I don’t know the Radiators. (Does that make me terrible iggerent?) But I have very eclectic taste in music, and anything lacking rose-tinted nostalgia would appeal. I’ll investigate.

Do you have Irish connections, Kevin?

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By: kevin b

kevin b — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:50:59 +0000

Nora: Do you know the Radiators’ song Kitty Ricketts? A classic song to end all Dublin songs about the ghost of a dead prostitute walking the streets of the Fair City (from the album Ghosttown by the Radiators, now available on the Cockles and Mussels compilation).

As one blogger writes: ‘Hard to pick out one track over the others, because they’re all brilliant, but Christy Moore and the Pogues have covered Song of the Faithful Departed, and rightly so. It is one of the most moving songs ever written about Ireland, all the more so because its sentiments aren’t the usual ones of rose-tinted nostalgia.’

Enough Paddywhackery.

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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:24:46 +0000

Thanks for the tip Nora. Makes a job a bit easier if you know the correct pronunciations.
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As I wandered, sort of lonely, to Howth Castle and beyond
I saw the Bailey Lighthouse, of which sailors are so fond
But, you know, on slowly nearing that famous Hill of Howth
I didn

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By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:18:22 +0000

Your comments are there, folks, and I responded to them. (I’m on broadband but if I post too many pics it slows the blog down for people on dial-up. Not sure why you’re having trouble with the comments function. Does it not just appear as a pop-up box?)

To catch up:

Melissa, thank you for the link to the snow pic. It’s lovely. I spent some time in St. Anton when I was more “flexible” and half-able to ski.

Mac: Howth Head (pronounced Hoe-th, not How-th) is at the tip of the northern arm of Dublin Bay. I live near there.

As for Molly, she’s been immortalised in a statue fondly known by Dubliners as the “Tart with the Cart”. Given their propensity for nicknames, the new Spire is the “Stiletto in the Ghetto”, and the water attraction which the Spire replaced was known as the “Floosie in the Jacuzzi”.

Love your poetic advice.

Must awa’

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:35:16 +0000

I tried too Mac – there were no pictures, but a X instead. When I made a comment there was a pause while it was being digested and lo and behold it appeared! perhaps it’s stopped malfunctioning now

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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:19:42 +0000

I must be missing out on something , or my brain is shrunk to the size of a petit pois. I tried, and was sure I was successful, to blog on Nora’s site this morning. Result. Zilch. I followed an apparently neverending path of signing in, and when, eventually I was able to make a contribution, it appeared to have been accepted. It’s not there now. Is there a blog eating leprechaun guarding the site ,I ask. If others have the same difficulty; it’s no wonder your answer pages are not full. After all, there is plenty there to be getting on with.

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By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:05:33 +0000

LMAO! He beat me to it!

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