Mikelyn Rochford

Thanks a ton!! 🙏

Thank you all!!! ✨✨✨

Fantastic to see Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social win the British Association for Irish Studies @bairishstudies.bsky.social essay prize for her challenge to the ways 'narrative theory has conceived of afterlife stories as unnatural, oppositional, or dependent on a privileged realist norm'

Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲

‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn Although the Niall Montgomery papers housed at the National Library of Ireland shows that Montgomery contributed to the Cruiskeen Lawn, researchers without access to Dublin have been unable to identif...

💥New publication alert!💥 "‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn" by @maebhlong.bsky.social, @jessiepb.bsky.social & Marie Theunisz out now! Check their article out for new insights into the co-authorship of Cruiskeen Lawn.

It makes me feel better about the state of the world to know that at this moment people are gathering to talk about Flann O’Brien. (No doubt as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.)

Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality

Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...

Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋

#NowPlaying

Dolly on stage c. early 1970s. Huge hair and a pink jumpsuit. I think the man right behind her in a Nudie suit is Porter Wagoner.

Dolly Parton

Fiancé decided to join me on my upcoming Ryanair flight to Belfast and got dropkicked from the seat next to me at the very last minute due to a tech glitch. Got on social media and this is the first thing I saw 🤣

Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!

Love when the pals win together 🤝

big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited my home (red) state of Montana on their Fighting Oligarchy tour today. They filled the stadium with a crowd of 7,500 and an overflow of 1,500. Nearing 1% of Montana’s population.

And by this I mean a UFO, not rural Montana.

Ah cool - would love to know what you think of it!

Cosmic Mind at Play by The Paisleys (1970). Psychedelic garage rock from the Midwest.

PJ Harvey’s White Chalk (2007). I love all the PJ eras (she never misses for me) but this one had a sound I particularly really love.

Happy 60th birthday to Begin Here by The Zombies (1965)!! One of my comfort bands.

Jackpot reissue of Silver Apples - Contact (1969). I need so much more music from Silver Apples, absolutely obsessed with these beats.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

This morning listening to Roy Harper’s Stormcock (1971). I came to start listening to him in a favorite artist’s favorite artist kind of way.

It’s April 1st! #OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman starts today! Is it about a bicycle?Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of him…

It's April 1st! #OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/i...

Snockman, Doc Snock, Elwood Snock, Michael Hurley. Musician, storyteller, cartoonist, and an artist in every way. Rest in peace. Thanks for the imaginative, funny, beautiful music. You’ll always be one of my favorites.

A day late: Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien/Myles na Gopaleen/etc.) died April 1, 1966 and I guess it’s a nice thing he wrote some good books because I don’t know what else I’d be doing right now if he hadn’t. Probably nothing much.
[photos at the end from Anthony Cronin’s O’Brien biography]

I missed it by a bit, but happy ten year anniversary of the release of Sufjan Steven’s Carrie & Lowell. I remember not paying any attention in any of my courses all day and then quietly retreating to the privacy of my dorm room to listen to it all the way through 🥲

FOUND ALIVE and running a chain of laundromats in Miami. Death was all a hoax.

On the Shore (1971) by Trees. A group I wish recorded so much more than the two (stellar) albums that we’ve got.