Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4hSo many Bluesky posts now are written in code or are like something in a metaphysical or Prynne poem that I think there should be an ALT text equivalent to explain them to the likes of me (or to me). 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h'The kingdom' passim: we avoid.irishtimes.comPlane billows smoke at Riyadh airport as Houthis escalate attacks on Saudi ArabiaLufthansa and Air India to suspend flights to Riyadh after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6hWhat's reported in the third section of this entry about Eugenia Ravasio is extraordinary. It verges on the incredible.en.wikipedia.orgEugenia Ravasio - Wikipedia 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h"Higher that thing up," I said. "Why? It's in French." What answer was there to that? Nor, indeed, could I make head or tail of it even with the subtitles. 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 13hI didn't see this advertised: Manchán Magan and the Music of Other Worlds. He was, in a very real sense, a saoi who brought the Irish language to life in an approachable yet authoritative way.journalofmusic.comManchán Magan and the Music of Other WorldsSlí na Samhlaíochta at the National Concert Hall (5 October) brought together Liam Ó Maonlaí, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Lisa O’Neill, Simon O'Reilly, Myles O’Reilly, Méabh McKenna, Branwen Kavanagh and Cr... 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 19hOn our losing the run of ourselves.roaringwaterjournal.com'Tis far from that you were reared – Roaringwater JournalPosts about 'Tis far from that you were reared written by Finola 010
Reposted by Hugo Brady BrownFrank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · 19h“Although the once-prolific species must still be considered endangered, the news that there are at least two fanlight horses still out there may open the possibility that they could breed again.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...irishtimes.comAnother sighting of the lesser-spotted Dublin fanlight horseA second surviving specimen stands in the window of a Hendrick Street house in Smithfield 0365
Reposted by Hugo Brady BrownThe Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 20hGlad to see Radio 4's Farming Today is to increase in length. Our #FoodSecurity is of increasing importance in the face of the #ClimateCrisis. Waking up with Caz Graham, Anna Hill and colleagues is very informative. #farming www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and YoursThe corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts. 131
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 20hLucan! In a book! Ithell Colquhoun was born 120 years ago tomorrow. Not perhaps as good as her book on Cornwall, but anyways. The Crying of the Wind (1954; Pushkin P. edition 2025) 000
Reposted by Hugo Brady BrownAidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Back in Twitter when “My library photo has had 1.1 million views, 23,820 likes, & 1,000s etc. Strikingly, the 890 comments in different languages are all complimentary, often gently envious, and essentially, without exception, kind. The book-loving corner of Twitter, it seems, is a nice place. 🥰” 4312
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You think 'This one's really going to be a banger', but its only consequence is one immediate block. 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Who wouldn't like to live in such a place? Housing on the edge of Airfield Estate. Overlooked in a good sense. And with a tram nearby going in to town. (The line that long ago took Foxrock freemasons to their meetings in Molesworth Street, according to Todd Andrews.) 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They're beautiful but so dangerous: Aconitum napellus up in Airfield Estate in Dundrum in Dublin, Ireland. 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wondered if it might be a species rose from China, but I'd say the one on the right is Rosa glauca. Glaucous is one of those words only gardeners and poets use. I suppose Pallas Athene's flashing eyes were that. And ornithologists. 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A marvellous colour-restrained border at Airfield Estate. Niwaki cloud pruned small trees, echium p. and what you might call the lesser Nile papyrus reed in flower. It's far too little grown here. I still have one 35 years after being given it by someone I was soft on who married someone else. 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Introverts at the School Reunion (forthcoming) 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I always hope now that if an expensive hardback is going to go into paperback with a different publisher, it isn't going to be Penguin. The physical objects are a disgrace to publishing. 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The late Misses Overends' openers. Medlar trees in fruit and about to go into their fiery autumn colour. Airfield Estate in Dundrum, Ireland 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Which was the college where the entrance exam was that they threw a ball at you? If you caught it they let you in. If you threw it back they gave you a scholarship. 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It was only yesterday that I learned that Marina Hyde is a member of the nobility under her real name, but then so is Kirstie. 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Calvino did that perfectly and once was enough." 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"He's still working on his 1980s Dublin house-share localisation of La Vie mode d'emploi. It's going to be the Next Big Thing in historical difficult fiction." "A romp might be better Booker material these days." 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I see that Gallery still have it cheaply in paperback, so I will take a certain course. 120
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sorry: I omitted words by mistake and changed the meaning. (A v. bad sentence anyway.) 'It sounds from this like this one is in a minor key.' 110
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I can't explain why I didn't know of it. It sounds from this like one in a minor key.brianfrielsballybeg.ieGive Me Your Answer Do – Brian Friel's Ballybeg 100
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I had never heard of that one. It sounds like quite a dramatic apparatus, like a guillotine being set up on stage for who knows what. 100
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Have *you* ever offered your personal archive to the National Library of Ireland? Free of charge? Space constraints your granny! 120
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People who make the transition from Twitter up to Bluesky are often shocked by how early we go to bed and put blue screens out of reach. 020
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026'The men of the press and the gentlemen of the Times' 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Duck eggs should really be cooked in a clavichord," he said, but we knew what he meant. The problem of the revolting whites. 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"I categorise cladistics among the superstitions." 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This needs an In Our Time. The Great Oxidation Eventen.wikipedia.orgGreat Oxidation Event - Wikipedia 000
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Dame Mary Berry thing on the BBC puzzles me. She can turn up on any programme of any kind, and probably does.bbc.co.ukBBC Two - Mary at 90: A Lifetime of Cooking, Series 1, Episode 4Dame Mary and Alex Jones cook Mary’s most-asked-for recipes over 60 years of cooking. 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I have usually spent my five likes of the day by lunchtime." 010
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I couldn't imagine watching a film in a theatre. 000