Andy Onyx

John Banville: ‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’ The author on his latest novel, Venetian Vespers, how Graham Greene treated him ‘very badly’, and his support for Israelis

The baddies are always more interesting... Need to have go on one yer mans #booksky👇🏼

John Banville: ‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’

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Wishee washee, fencee sitee - go from the hip- rebrand as, wait for it ….
THE LIB DEMS.

@malachyclerkin.bsky.social the McGuigan/Hatton article in today’s @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social should be picked up by @theguardian.com and the rest. Not a word wasted, landed like a perfect combination- respect- spread the word.
#mentalhealth #talkingaintweak

You’re cooking 🥘 What’s for dessert?

Donald Clarke: Why do the Irish still think it’s charming to be late for everything? Elsewhere in the world, people arrive in good time. Here, many regard the advertised kick-off as loosely advisory

Why do the Irish still think it’s charming to be late for everything?

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#Art #Acrylic #Psychedelic #Portrait
Another beautiful portrait from artist Paul Lewin. This piece is titled - "Naron".

#booksky

I’ll crack on with the others in due course.

#bohs #boihéamach #bohemians #dublin7 #dayler #roddydoyle #barrytown #betweenthecovers #dubfiction #thecommitments #shadwelldogz

This is Roddy’s debut, self-published originally and the first of what became the Barrytown Trilogy and he’s thirteen in now. It may get the same slaps as Ian Fleming does these days, if you know what I mean.

Dub fiction.
A band story, Shadwell Dogz stylée.
When I did a peice for the International Bohs section of the (award winning) programme, Red & Black, the man said as I was a scribbler, Roddy was in our number along with, my initiator, The Real Irvine Welsh.

Clouseau-esque

This Recklass Declan has got up to 2022 of the white knuckled art bombing craic tan bait fest that is @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social podcast. I was initiated last winter by Kev Insane, the rebel chippie from Cork, the bleet goes on.

PlateFest’25

And y talked well. Same as it ever was- It all went off outside that whorehouse in NightTown back in 1904, after all - fear & loathing ‘cross Ha’penny Bridge 😉.

Colm Tóibín: 'I have it in for business news ... It has to stop' For the author of A Long Winter and Ship in Full Sail, inspiration often comes subliminally. But he has also brought his inner self to the surface through therapy

Colm Tóibín: ‘All the emotion I was suppressing, that I didn’t know what to do with, was grief’

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#booksky

NASA, the IRA and a nervous breakdown: The making of ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Stanley Kubrick’s most underrated film The historical drama starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson returns to theaters 50 years after an opening as tumultuous as its production

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In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe.
Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]

Famine Soup: Alexis Soyer, Trevelyan and The Great Hunger in Dublin Podcast Episode · Three Castles Burning · 24/08/2025 · 35m

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Can’t beat spotting a bit of ‘Old Man’s Graffiti ‘ circa Dad’s Army 1974, first thing. it beats the smell of napalm or industrial strength ganja in the morning 🤣 but we must ever say die, my friends 💪🏼.

🎼Never Say Die! - Black Sabbath 1978 (Osbourne, Butler, Iommi, Ward)
#neversaydie

Does Irish music have North African origins? Podcast Episode · The Blindboy Podcast · 30/06/2021 · 55m

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My Declan odyssey tru the BB backlog continues. Take raked- Get this, re Beatles/melisma/ Irish heritage can you hear it @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social ? Tax Man (guitar solo) , Rain, Love You To, Sleeping (outro), I Want to Tell You (outro), Tomorrow Never Knows

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

The Stone Island Slagz
Don’t crave a click or a like
Coz The Stone Island Slagz have rushed the decks and the mic
The Stone Island Slagz are in the Jodi at the Bohs
The Stone Island Slagz will ‘hold you now’ not butt your nose
Who R The Stone Island Slagz
We R The Stone Island Slagz

Now, The Stone Island Slagz
Have got brand new bionic feet
so The Stone Island Slagz
don’t even bitch about the seats
Yes, The Stone Island Slagz
Never get Roger Moored
Coz The Stone Island Slagz don’t even wanna be adored

I see The Stone Island Slagz
in the Oasis crowd
I See The Stone Island Slagz
Getting a lickle bit too loud
Yes, The Stone Island Slagz
Are rocking back in full effect
Coz The Stone Island Slagz
Have had ten each down all their necks

It ain’t a Kill Bill slash fest (4 dō giri) but a period Samurai/ Western set in the Highlands with a brilliant score by Jed Kurzel. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dogus Bolloxicus.

In short: thoroughly enjoyed this, all in. It’s right down Onyx Strasse. The poster doesn’t do this one justice.

#tornado #timroth #johnmaclean #jedkurzel #kōki #jacklowden #takehirohira #scottishfilm

Álainn

#bohs #bohemians #fanowned #planets #beatpoetry #andyonyx

Dadless passing Dedalus
I felt and read the signs
The green genes are a-fizzing
Are my planets now in line?’

Written on my first visit to Dalymount Park, manage to knock this up this time- dedicated to @bfcdublin and all their supporters and volunteers.

‘When the planets are in line
Could be yours or mine
Past and future fizzing
Like DNA quick lime
Marley and Thin Lizzy
Now the the Artists yard
Bohs: by and for the people
Below St Peter’s Stoney Shard