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A Mess to Be Reckoned With - This American Life Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. She's great at it. But then, her niece goes missing.

Lovely morning for drive

Cherry blossom season

Journey shortened by Ira

www.thisamericanlife.org/706/a-mess-t...

So many words and expressions went onto my To Find Out More list-
Snowcemmed
Double-dwellers
Catch crops
Cattle-cake machine
Fell out of work
Crinkle-Crankle wall
Local jeremiahs

And learnt of death tolls

Recently read Akenfield that describes that time and similar place

Stamp art of the new logo, showing Irish language names on a signpost with Reclaim Your Placename.

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life."
They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

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Only 19 days since I reposted this

AND

I

STILL

HAVE

NOT

LEARNED

HOW

TO

SAY

NO

'... lost BY the foundering SS Titanic'

Not IN. Not ON - which would have been my choices. LOST BY does seem odd

From some of the posts, I had thought the memorials were uniform design but from this photo, it appears not

#OtD 15 Apr 1989 the Hillsborough disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest resulting in 97 dead and over 700 injured. Though caused by police negligence, police and the press blamed Liverpool fans stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8641...

37 years.
This could have happened to any team's fans. Very nearly happened to #lufc in 1987 by all accounts. It just happened to be Liverpool's.
RIP
And #jft97

Police officers stand in the street, as tractors block Dublin's O'Connell Street, as part of a protest over the high cost of fuel that clogged up busy thoroughfares and motorways across Ireland for a second successive day, in Dublin, Ireland April 8, 2026

The meta, Meta and meaning of the Irish fuel protests - a longish read about what more than 20 years of studying and covering the far right has taught me about these political moments.
#speirgorm
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Ends of the Earth - This American Life An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.

Enjoyed on this early morning's journey

www.thisamericanlife.org/779/ends-of-...

Welcome to #Cork Kid

Based upon M8 detour I suspect not

One being near Thurles

Other being in N Cork has two s's

Still there a few years back

prominent piece of real estate....

#StoriesFromCemeteries #Clare

Was cycling through town last night and it really hit me how much damage this O'Connell St blockade has done to the authority of the Gardaí. It's pretty clear that law enforcement in Ireland is _entirely_ arbitrary and the idea that justice is delivered without fear or favour has been proven false.

Tsundoku....

A thing?????

Really!!!!!!

Naw........

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S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

#SpectemurLibris
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Was an enjoyable evening at the launch at The Kiln, Murphy's Brewery

Time had come to take from the To Be Read stack

One single recommendation spotted on #BookChallenge

A record of a different time

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A loan from a neighbour who knows of my liking of graveyard walks

The Lock-Keeper's Wife with John MacKenna John MacKenna, acclaimed Irish writer, tells Oliver about his new Novel ‘The Lock-Keepers Wife’, set by the banks of the Royal Canal and in a 1950’s Ireland, that was often a brutal place for women.

Heard interview on radio and purchased book days later

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Spotted on #20DayBookChallenge by jimderloinz

napalmcupcake - sewingwithdragons - kimbasgarden - aarontim-author - soupskinjamboree - dizzy8873 - annalisaxrt - gh2ogeordie - gerdub - mihoosier - kelseydking -

The podcast prompted a move up the library order list

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Spotted included in 28 #BookChallenge lists

trevormac312 - II-61 - stevenortlieb - edwasright - bloomingburbs - red-baroness - olddudelifts - conradbower - m1sselaineous - integraitor - elijaxapps - davidpaustin - cosmicpal - centaurita - sjzuhisallyn - wendynerd13 - nickjgriffin -

Another single recommendation spotted on #BookChallenge

Ordered from U.S.

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Spotted on a #BookChallenge #Shelfie

Have renewed the library load more than once

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Another single recommendation spotted on #20DayBookChallenge

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Another single recommendation spotted on #20DayBookChallenge - by knives-n-tea

One single recommendation on the #20DayBookChallenge was my introduction

Did enjoy

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Another that I lediscovered through the #20DayBookChallenge and recommendations of ryancoyle - c-morgan - megatronstu -