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Oil surges as Iran conflict disrupts supply flow Oil prices surged by as much as 13% today after shipping in the crucial Strait of Hormuz was disrupted by retaliatory Iranian attacks following initial bombing by Israel and the US that killed Iranian...

Oil in barrels as far as the eye can see.

Isn't it triple distilled IT?

Belvedere College’s extraordinary rooftop farm supplying food to a Michelin-star restaurant The Dublin college’s urban farm now supplies crops to storied local restaurant Chapter One, also sharing its knowledge with other schools

This is the kind of social project that can give a lift to an inner city school.

A day in the life of the mobile library serving the people of the Beara Peninsula in Cork Librarian Zillah Ní Loideoin and driver Seán Crowley have been working together for 16 years, bringing books to schoolchildren, nursing homes, book clubs and individual homes around Co Cork

Mobile Library Memoirs is a book I'd like to see.

"The most reliable way of ensuring your book gets ecstatically good reviews in the newspaper is to work for it."

"In what sense?"

George Gipps - Wikipedia

Sir George Gipps (1790-1847) sounds like a good subject for a biography or even for a serious book. (Sufficent sources may not survive, of course.)

And as interesting, it turns out tonight, is lore about the more prestigious end of periodical publishing in the anglophonie.

The cultural decline was probably always as steep as it is today: 35 years ago things looked bad in BBC Radio 3, at that time on the speech radio side. Today that time seems like a golden age.

And the Giles Cooper Awards for radio drama didn't survive much longer.

The cover of the book

The list of story titles

This is such an enticing title to a collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy. Looking forward to enjoying them again after so many years.

Everyone loves the poetry and most like the novels, but the short stories get ignored. (And then there's The Dynasts, which not one in a hundred has read.)

Information about and insights into book publishing in the home countries can be fascinating. Sometimes, like today, the most reputable-seeming house can turn out to be little different from a fly-blown bookies in its business practices and in its devotion to cultural production and reproduction.