John Hughes

Beside the Foyle the cast and crew of Brian Friel's 'Translations', during rehearsals for its premiere in the Guildhall on 23 Sept 1980. The pic includes Friel himself, Oscar nominee Liam Neeson, Buncrana born Ray McAnally, Mick Lally, Stephen Rea and Derry actress Ann Hasson.

Top of the Pops (8th February 1979). Dr Feelgood are at number 13 in the hit parade with Milk and Alcohol.

Cross Country today with Eoin.

As they say he has an Irish head on him. The sort of face you'd see in Ballina or Keady!

Love this cover.

A while ago I cancelled my subscription to the London Review of Books and took one out with the Times Literary Supplement. One thing that's struck me is how much better the poetry published in the TLS is.

Auden's 'Imaginary Friends' NSP Guest Post! Andrew Neilson on how the literati cope as Rome falls

Liked this. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Orange Juice performing Rip It Up, which they released as a single on this day in 1983. Watch the full recording from Switch, which also includes The Day I Went Down To Texas, here youtu.be/PpkHczKcwsQ

Sounds like Larne

Jim Carruth

Under the Volcano

Disorderly order.

Ruby Hamilton in the LRB on David Lynch.

Looking to reading at the launch of PIR next week.

YouTube video by Live From Austin TX Doug Sahm - "(Is Anybody Goin' To) San Antone" [Live From Austin, TX]

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Belfast City Hall being built in 1903. My great -grandfather Joseph worked as a labourer during its construction.

YouTube video by EvanBluz Roy Buchanan - Down By The River, PBS (1971)

The great Roy Buchanan. youtu.be/BdxZs2sCugE?...

If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.
— Anne Carson

Came across this bit of divilment from NB in the TLS.

More Labore than Arte. But a win is a win.

Pre-Season training for Devenish St. Mary's GAA club from Fermanagh on a cold Tullan Strand, Donegal. 📷James Crombie

The Spitting Image puppet of Peter Mandelson as a snake. It was part of an exhibition last year in the Ulster Museum.

I agree. It's always struck me as odd.

1970. Glenties held a parade. Dennis Tynan photographed the event, including this photograph of a float with a banner paraphrasing Patrick McGill's poem Going Home: 'I am back home again in Glenties in Conservation Year where there is no air pollution and Salmon by the score.'

Belfast. Little Donegall Street looking towards North Street

One of my favourite Belfast bars.

Superstars. The budget was about a pound.

Geoff Capes!

Bullseye: 'Come and look at what you could have won'.

Rainer Brambach, translated by Esther Kinsky