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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 40m

The (relatively recently) learned inability of so many native speakers to pronounce the word 'sixth' is a strange thing.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

"That sounds like a great TV programme idea at 8 o'clock." "It's Channel 4." "Oh. I think I'll take a bath instead then."

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 1h

It is also unusual for such an intimate depiction. The knights are positioned in an intimate manner you would more commonly see a married couple, with arms touching and the knight on the left facing the knight on the right.

A closer view of the large stone slab incised with a medieval depiction of two knights.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

"How do you know he was English?" "He called the road there a lane, Guard." "He sounds dangerous. He must be apprehended."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

VAT cuts for the 'hospitality' trade don't ever seem to make things cheaper for customers. Would another tax cut do it?

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

It has come as a considerable surprise to me to learn today that I someone I used to have dealings with long ago in the penumbra of professional light (but not quite vulgar) entertainment is now a bishop.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

"The main reason why I stopped putting alt text on snaps on Bluesky is that I have to type them blind: the keyboard on the app covers where I'm typing. The second reason is that next to nobody looks at my posts." "I'll never repost your stuff in that case."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

"Am I too subtle?" will be my memoir title.

The title page of a book, annotated by soneone else, probably a Latin speaker

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 1h

"It's a disgrace, Joe. Know what I mean?"

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4h

Melleray was a strange place even before this, not least because of the credence of the former Cistercian community in a fake moving statue under their spiritual care. A relentlessly odd diocese too for 2026, the diocese of Waterford and Lismore (at least in the plenitude of the priesthood).

e-pages.dk

US university seeking to open campus at former Mount Melleray monastery

Council planners seeking details on nature and extent of internal works.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4h

It has emerged that 'the lads' once again arranged to go by train to Westport today for a long weekend and once again forgot to tell me. Last year and now this. Three would begin to look like a pattern.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4h

"A concern with Best Before dates is a sign of a lack of breeding."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

Greece will once again be able to teach the world, this time about government debt.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

I had a friend who taught himself Spanish mainly to be able to read García Lorca properly. Seeing his wicker coffin being carried up the church aisle, I wondered if the investment was worthwhile.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

I couldn't imagine watching a film in a theatre.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

"It has been put back, but we can put it on backorder for you." "When is it due?" "It says here 11 April 2028 now, so we could have it for you, oh, on 29 April 2028. Do you want to pay today?" Adolfo Bioy Casares "Borges" NYRB Classics

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M. D. Steele + @msteele1549.bsky.social · 5h

Recently, I presided at St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount, following in the footsteps of Fr. Fletcher Sheridan Le Fanu and Fr. Samuel Randal Sproule Colquhoun; a fine tradition.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing someone here printing from their iPhone without switching on the desktop computer has thrust me into a Catweazel moment of bewilderment.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

A leader who's 80 years old and selfish has no skin in the game and could do simply anything.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

"Your Bluesky engagement rate in the past 24 hours was 7.14%. This is 0.61% down on your last monthly score." I love it here.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

"He spent a week above in Annaghmakerrig trying to squeeze out a short story, and in that time J C Oates wrote a trilogy of novels and posted a bit online too."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

I suppose an 80th anniversary isn't a significant round one, but it will soon be 80 years since Damon Runyon's death.

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Damon Runyon - Wikipedia

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

"One-place studies are all very well in places that have good deep archival sources. They're necessarily abbreviated and almost pointless here because most of the records that existed were destroyed, and there are next to no old records of the Catholic peasantry." The rejected Maynooth MA topic.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

Like Christmas and Poppy Season, the Ulster Marching Season is trying to take over the whole year. Will there be no time we can go up there?

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

They will discover the geopolitical theorising of J. Enoch Powell yet: his big idea was that England and Russia were natural allies. Maybe the ground is prepared.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

Even in 18th century archival documents I sometimes come across "my ball" (or his etc), but I don't believe I have ever deciphered "my bullet" in any.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when we believed that tweeting at people could change their minds? Now we know that 85% of people don't even take in what's in a reply. It's a broadcast medium.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

Even little magazines reject, and great is the gnashing of teeth.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

"Do you think I should try again for Mensa?" "I don't think you cope well with rejection."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

"He's a Lieder singer-songwriter."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

The Quiet Posters feed can be interesting, but it's mysterious how it's populated because >90% of the accounts followed by this one are quiet or very quiet. Maybe too quiet. (The feed never has more than a couple of dozen posts in 24 hours.)

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

How to obtain a copy of this new CD by 12 October in Dublin, Ireland (?) Amazon in Britain won't send it here. Amazon in Ireland don't list it at all. Presto and JPC don't say how long. (There are no real record shops left.) John Wilson and Sinfonia of London Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls.

John Wilson and Sinfonia of London Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

'Berrill had intended Mensa as "an aristocracy of the intellect" and was unhappy that the majority of members came from working or lower-class homes, while Ware said: "I do get disappointed that so many members spend so much time solving puzzles."'

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Mensa International - Wikipedia

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It's not karma or any nonsense like that. It's simply that ingrained behaviour of that kind leads to consequences for them. But you can of course still sit and watch for what will inevitably float down the river."

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the 19th century, was there in English a refined, ultra-highbrow literary fiction published by small presses that was read mostly or even exclusively by a tiny cultural intellectual elite - work far more demanding on its readers than Austen and Dickens and Eliot and Hardy and Trollope?

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pierre de Calan (1911-93), once a moderately well-known figure in France, but today completely forgotten even there. For the day that's in it. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_...

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" may be true, but too often a like is a "Go away!"

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's far worse to be a dyed-in-the-wool boor than simply to encounter one. At least we can avoid him; he can't.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head: ‘Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,’ he said." (From Walter de la Mare's 'The Blueskyers')

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At this time of year Twitter used to become more active as people returned from the academic summer holidays, but the same is not perceptible on Bluesky, which remains now as silent and empty as ever.

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