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Attention and Will: with Meghan O'Gieblyn Podcast Episode · Culture File · 27 February · 52m

Essayist, Meghan O'Gieblyn invites Colm Toibin and Luke Clancy to an encounter with French philosopher and mystic, Simone Weil, in particular with her posthumously published essay/poem, Attention and Will.

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Image: Jess Zamora-Turner, Postomia (2023), TULCA Gallery. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

RTÉ lyric fm | Culture File at TULCA 2025

Luke Clancy visited TULCA 2025 for RTÉ lyric fm’s @culturefile.bsky.social, walking through Strange lands still bear common ground in conversation with curator Beulah Ezeugo.

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YouTube video by Louisiana Channel Pope.L. is Making a Commitment to Art | Louisiana Channel

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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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Artist Harold Offeh reclining on a white sofa, wearing a bright red jacket, black pants, red socks and white sneakers with red stripes

Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone.

Artist and performer, Harold Offeh encourages Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to think/talk about the late US artist, William Pope.L's performance crawls, as well as the powers of lounging and of silliness.

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Crows and Corsets Rion Hanora O'Donovan on the place of 'bad' graffiti in her clothes designs; Dermot Rogers puts some sunlight on the legacy of jazz guitarist, Louis Stewart; Paddy Woodworth slips Esther Woolfson on to the Naturalist's Bookshelf; and Patrick O'Laoghaire starts a new series musical Island postcards.

Crows and Corsets
Rion Hanora O'Donovan on the place of 'bad' graffiti in her clothes designs; Dermot Rogers puts some sunlight on the legacy of jazz guitarist, Louis Stewart; Paddy Woodworth slips Esther Woolfson on to the Naturalist's Bookshelf; and Patrick O'Laoghaire starts a new series music...

An Afternoon at the Opera XXXL Edition After a troubled Northern Irish childhood, Vivien Hewitt found a new life in Italy, and in opera. The director and designer takes a seat in the afternoon quiet of Trieste's Theatre Verdi to talk about a life in the dreamworld of opera.

An Afternoon at the Opera XXXL Edition
After a troubled Northern Irish childhood, Vivien Hewitt found a new life in Italy, and in opera. The director and designer takes a seat in the afternoon quiet of Trieste's Theatre Verdi to talk about a life in the dreamworld of opera.

The Culture File Debate: Quiet/Loud XXXL Edition The Culture File panel explores the place of quiet and loud in the contemporary attention economy, with poet, Paula Meehan and musicians and composers, Siobhán Cleary, John Godfrey, and Christine Tobin. Recorded live at New Music Dublin 2025. (From 260425)

The Culture File Debate: Quiet/Loud XXXL Edition
The Culture File panel explores the place of quiet and loud in the contemporary attention economy, with poet, Paula Meehan and musicians and composers, Siobhán Cleary, John Godfrey, and Christine Tobin. Recorded live at New Music Dublin 2025. (From...

It’s an important moral issue but we still don’t know what Brian Kerr thinks.

The Hoxton’s is playing a blinder.
It’s almost as though their clientele would be almost exclusively people who don’t live in Dublin.

RTÉ Culture File: What Is A Sound? with artist Tarek Atoui Join us for a live recording of RTÉ lyric fm's Culture File Debate: What Is A Sound? with Lebanese sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui.

Come feel the noise! Sound folks Tarek Atoui, Eleanor Myler and Natalia Beylis are on the panel next Thursday to ask the big little question: what is a sound? Live at IMMA, Thursday 19th, 6pm. Grab your free tix here:
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Is there by any chance, a triple Luge? I mean, where does this all stop?

Mirror Lamp Press – MLP x Culture File: You Talkin' to me? You Talkin’ to Me? is the Mirror Lamp Press x Culture File audio issue featuring new work by Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, Marian Balfe, Lisa Freeman, Basil Al-Rawi, and Jay Bernard. This one-hour ra...

Yes, yes, I am.
I certainly am.

Everything you've wanted to know about the Mirror Lamp Press x Culture File collaborative radio edition, five artists all building off/knocking down Travis Bickle's most quotable.
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Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

That seems like a most excellent idea

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Can’t sing? Neither can they. That hasn’t stopped the Tuneless Choir. The Tuneless Choir was co-founded by a woman who was told as a child: “Please stop singing, you are spoiling it for everyone else.”

Is there an Irish one of these?
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Gotta think though that there really was no need for the Harrys Potter to ever get within thumping distance of the Vims.

YouTube video by Cheenatoast one million vin diesel vs 1000 harry potter. who will win?

Important information for the days ahead
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is he wearing them to prove he's as mad as the other idiot?

Even if they'd just mention it every time they discuss Greenland.

Open question.
No judgement.
Who loves a Panenka?

John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

[ACX 2026] Will an AI-created song chart in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 before 2027? 50% chance. (https://www.metaculus.com/questions/embed/40969) Resolves according to Metaculus resolution. Metaculus high-level description: This question will resolve as Yes if a song largely created...

Part of what prediction markets do is let you believe that some awful things haven't actually happened yet.

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What is the Artist to Fascism? Richard Grenell explains

Live Nation and Degenerate Art
How are things going, according to Live Nation's President of the Kennedy Centre (and Damon Krukowski)?
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Normal

Some Tolkien notes for all the bros
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The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.

the innie bellybutton of punctuation!

where dat?

X cuts off the European Commission’s ad account after being fined €120 million X cutting off the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to change its mind about the €120 million fine.

Why exactly is the European Commission advertising on X in the first place?
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Jesse Duquette on Instagram: "Ok, ok I’ve heard all your feedback and have updated this for accuracy" Get to know the Pantone Colors of the Year, including Snowfall and Ice Agent, and how they impact art, design, and culture. We delve into the meanings behind each color and their potential application...

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Next level BS.