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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Storey on Ireland-Israel: "Israel turning up, shaking hand and hearing its anthem played before its soccer match with Ireland will suggest business as usual" (Aug-Sept Village)
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Storey on Ireland-Israel: "Israel turning up, shaking hand and hearing its anthem played before its soccer match with Ireland will suggest business as usual" (Aug-Sept Village)
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Secret documents seen by Village show Micheál Martin lied about RAF over-flights of Ireland and failed to put the associated international agreement before the Dáil as required by the Constitution. These are major matters of state and you would expect his resignation. villagemagazine.ie/raf-deal/
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RAF deal: rough deal for truth - Village Magazine
Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In an illustrative imbroglio for ethics in public and judicial offices, Kildare Councillor Seamie Moore got Judge Desmond Zaidan's traffic-safety vision aired and avoided a fine he should have paid villagemagazine.ie/councillors-...
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The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resisted - Village Magazine
Councillor Seamie Moore got a judge’s parking vision seen to and avoided a fine he should have paid.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Village July-Aug is in shops now!
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Michael Fingleton has died. He outlasted Nama, just.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Michael Fingleton has died. He outlasted Nama, just.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 29/07/2026
predation is learned behavior. David Burke for @villagemagazine.bsky.social villagemagazine.ie/trumps-mento...
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Trump's mentor: another sociopathic paedophile child-trafficker in the mix; from Roy Cohn to Epstein and Maxwell. - Village Magazine
By David Burke. Introduction. Law-enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have been – and continue to be – adverse to making inquiries into VIP child sex-abuse. This has been the position f...
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Secret documents seen by Village show Micheál Martin lied about RAF over-flights of Ireland and failed to put the associated international agreement before the Dáil as required by the Constitution. These are major matters of state and you would expect his resignation. villagemagazine.ie/raf-deal/
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RAF deal: rough deal for truth - Village Magazine
Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Collison had given $7M to a campaign to stop a one off wealth tax on billionaires. He's still miles behind Sergey Brin ($82M), but what a massive and continued disappointment these guys are. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax
Building a Better California opposes proposal that would require California’s billionaire residents to pay a one-off tax on their assets
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Government is rushing a guillotined Bill to retrospectively legalise what Village argues has been 31 years of unlawful military aid to the civil power since the national emergency ended — including its threatened use during the recent fuel protests. villagemagazine.ie/soldiers-sta...
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Soldiers, statute and the State: Ireland’s aid to the civil power - Village Magazine
Use of the army in support of the Garda rested on a mixture of custom, convenience, delegated regulations and constitutional assumption rather than explicit statutory authority, until the fuel protest...
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Government is rushing a guillotined Bill to retrospectively legalise what Village argues has been 31 years of unlawful military aid to the civil power since the national emergency ended — including its threatened use during the recent fuel protests. villagemagazine.ie/soldiers-sta...
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Soldiers, statute and the State: Ireland’s aid to the civil power - Village Magazine
Use of the army in support of the Garda rested on a mixture of custom, convenience, delegated regulations and constitutional assumption rather than explicit statutory authority, until the fuel protest...
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Village July-Aug is in shops now!
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Village Aug-Sept now in shops including Eason, Dunnes, Tesco and most magazine stockists; or by subscription (www.village.ie). 84 pages of bulging, hot news and culture! Frank Connolly, Michael Smith, Suzie Mélange, Andy Storey, David Burke, Gerard Cunningham, Tim Hannon, Ama Alzaki John Gibbons
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’
CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A funny one that the Irish Times was so confident Aughinish supplies material for Russian weapons but, having the same evidence and more, the Irish Department of Enterprise could not stand up the case. Do they have different standards of proof, and what are they? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Taoiseach: Government may explore ‘other approaches’ to ensure alumina not reaching Russia
Inquiry into Aughinish Alumina not ‘definitive’ if plant was supplying Russian military or not, Micheál Martin says on visit to Kyiv
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Village Aug-Sept now in shops including Eason, Dunnes, Tesco and most magazine stockists; or by subscription (www.village.ie). 84 pages of bulging, hot news and culture! Frank Connolly, Michael Smith, Suzie Mélange, Andy Storey, David Burke, Gerard Cunningham, Tim Hannon, Ama Alzaki John Gibbons
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
No, @NewtonEmerson. It didn't need scurrilousness or a tabloid approach. It needed people LIKE YOU to do your job better. Village ran many stories about Donaldson/Powell/Molyneaux whose content you & the Irish Times long ignored. irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... villagemagazine.ie/the-mentor-o...
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Newton Emerson: One takeaway from the Jeffrey Donaldson scandal is the value of a scurrilous press
Some of the people now demanding to know why the press did not expose Donaldson earlier can be the sniffiest about the tabloid tactics that would have entailed
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nord Stream blast ordered by Ukraine, say German prosecutors. German prosecutors believe the Ukrainian national suspected of sabotaging Baltic Sea gas pipelines in 2022 acted "on the orders of state authorities in Ukraine." #RTEcensored www.dw.com/en/nord-stre...
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Nord Stream blast ordered by Ukraine, say German prosecutors
German prosecutors believe the Ukrainian national suspected of sabotaging Baltic Sea gas pipelines in 2022 acted "on the orders of state authorities in Ukraine."
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The place of ideas in Ireland: Village editor Michael Smith, London-based barrister David Langwallner and Amsterdam-based author Patrick Healy look at the place of 'The Intellectual' in Irish life — from John Scottus via Bishop Berkeley & James Joyce to Sally Rooney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMOE...
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What place for ideas in Ireland?
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Village is looking to recruit a very experienced investigative journalist. Please apply with samples of best work to editor@villagemagazine.ie.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Many *Irish* people at the top of *British* Petroleum: Peter Sutherland (onetime Chair) was from Foxrock, Bernard Looney (fired CEO) from Kenmare, Albert Manifold (newly fired Chair) from Templeogue. New interim Chair Ian Tyler lives in Dublin. CEO Meg O'Neill presumably not UnIrish. #BP. Yeuch.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Many *Irish* people at the top of *British* Petroleum: Peter Sutherland (onetime Chair) was from Foxrock, Bernard Looney (fired CEO) from Kenmare, Albert Manifold (newly fired Chair) from Templeogue. New interim Chair Ian Tyler lives in Dublin. CEO Meg O'Neill presumably not UnIrish. #BP. Yeuch.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Legally fraught for John McGuirk,who failed to show up in court today, to maintain a defamation case against Paddy Cosgrave who said he was a racist, when McGuirk didn't pursue Village for calling him a racist (& a liar & a stirrer of hatred) in the courts or, in the end, through the Press Council.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Legally fraught for John McGuirk,who failed to show up in court today, to maintain a defamation case against Paddy Cosgrave who said he was a racist, when McGuirk didn't pursue Village for calling him a racist (& a liar & a stirrer of hatred) in the courts or, in the end, through the Press Council.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Ormond Quay, April 2026, until recently the best preserved part of the quays: derelict, demolished, made tacky, cluttered and crassly oversailed, facilitated by the clowns in Dublin City Council opposite. You can see why they're abandoning it and moving their offices elsewhere.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Complaint to the Press Council about Gript and to the Garda about one of its journalists. Read to the bottom of this long piece in the most recent Village magazine and consider the editorial direction of Gript under John McGuirk who's been "relieved of his duties" villagemagazine.ie/open-letter-...
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Open Letter to the Press Council of Ireland - Village Magazine
Press council of Ireland. Office of the press Ombudsman
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Man with same name as protestors' leader John Dallon has convictions for drunk driving and refusing to give breath sample: "While waiting to give a breath sample Dallon attempted to put his fingers down his throat as if he was trying to make himself sick". www.independent.ie/regionals/mo...
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Motorist who failed to give breath sample disqualified
A man who failed to give a breath sample despite being afforded three different opportunities was fined ?1,000 and put off the road for one year when he appeared before Judge Mary Martin at Carlow District Court.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Overboard broadband! Ireland now has rural fibre but the NBP remains a monument to bad planning, political avoidance and a settlement pattern that makes every infrastructure project cost more than it should. By Michael Smith villagemagazine.ie/overboard-ba...
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Overboard band - Village Magazine
Ireland now has rural fibre but the NBP remains a monument to bad planning, political avoidance and a settlement pattern that makes every infrastructure project cost more than it should
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
RTÉ needs security so it can do the stuff other broadcasters can’t but it should modernise including by focusing on its player, social platforms, podcasts, video, and archives; and leveraging trust. By @faduda.bsky.social villagemagazine.ie/rtes-signal-...
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RTÉ’s signal lost - Village Magazine
RTÉ needs security so it can do the stuff other broadcasters can’t but it should modernise including by focusing on its player, social platforms, podcasts, video, and archives; and leveraging trust
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Journosaurs The main problem with Irish media isn’t newspaper closures it’s lack of investigation, narrow-ranged reporting, big tech, and feebleness. By Suzie Mélange villagemagazine.ie/the-main-pro...
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The main problem with Irish media - Village Magazine
The main problem with Irish media isn’t newspaper closures it’s lack of investigation, narrow-ranged reporting, big tech, and feebleness
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
RTÉ needs security so it can do the stuff other broadcasters can’t but it should modernise including by focusing on its player, social platforms, podcasts, video, and archives; and leveraging trust. By @faduda.bsky.social villagemagazine.ie/rtes-signal-...
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RTÉ’s signal lost - Village Magazine
RTÉ needs security so it can do the stuff other broadcasters can’t but it should modernise including by focusing on its player, social platforms, podcasts, video, and archives; and leveraging trust
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
'One of the most remarkable recent literary works'. Brendan O’Byrne reviews ‘Beyond the Pale’ by Patrick Healy: 'A sustained prose poem which touches moments of lyric intensity, multilayered, rich in inventive imagery...' villagemagazine.ie/review-patri...
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Review: Patrick Healy’s ‘Beyond the Pale’ - Village Magazine
Recreating an entire universe: Brendan O’Byrne reviews ‘Beyond the Pale’ by Patrick Healy
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Journosaurs The main problem with Irish media isn’t newspaper closures it’s lack of investigation, narrow-ranged reporting, big tech, and feebleness. By Suzie Mélange villagemagazine.ie/the-main-pro...
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The main problem with Irish media - Village Magazine
The main problem with Irish media isn’t newspaper closures it’s lack of investigation, narrow-ranged reporting, big tech, and feebleness
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What that fool has done to the discourse: what brutality, what crassness he has normalised! #Trump
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Peak Trump. Too many people are sick or bored of him and his bag of tricks is played out (Feb Village). villagemagazine.ie/peak-trump/
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What that fool has done to the discourse: what brutality, what crassness he has normalised! #Trump
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
'One of the most remarkable recent literary works'. Brendan O’Byrne reviews ‘Beyond the Pale’ by Patrick Healy: 'A sustained prose poem which touches moments of lyric intensity, multilayered, rich in inventive imagery...' villagemagazine.ie/review-patri...
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Review: Patrick Healy’s ‘Beyond the Pale’ - Village Magazine
Recreating an entire universe: Brendan O’Byrne reviews ‘Beyond the Pale’ by Patrick Healy
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Peak Trump. Too many people are sick or bored of him and his bag of tricks is played out (Feb Village). villagemagazine.ie/peak-trump/
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The supercilious #Spectator is known to lack genuine class. Here, typically, a precious and judgmental piece about language manages to misuse barbarity (the word is barbarism) and spell supersession wrong — just when it thought it was at its cleverest. spectator.com/article/link...
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The supercilious #Spectator is known to lack genuine class. Here, typically, a precious and judgmental piece about language manages to misuse barbarity (the word is barbarism) and spell supersession wrong — just when it thought it was at its cleverest. spectator.com/article/link...
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Not Guilty! Episode 3 of Village's podcast on Law and Literature considers miscarriages of justice: Dreyfus, Oscar Wilde, Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e...
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Episode 3: miscarriages of justice: Dreyfus, Oscar Wilde, Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy
Podcast Episode · Law and Literature, Luke Sheehan interviews David Langwallner for Village podcasts. First episode · 10 March · 51m
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Whistleblownout Professor Dympna Waldron still reels more than twenty years after she blew the whistle on opioids in Irish hospitals, an extraordinary service if we lo0k to what happened in US hospitals By Michael Smith villagemagazine.ie/whistleblownout/
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Whistleblownout - Village Magazine
Dympna Waldron still reels more than twenty years after she blew the whistle on opioids in Irish hospitals.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Village's podcast: literature and the contemporary breakdown of the rule of law: Aristophanes via Ibsen to Lord Bingham studio.youtube.com/channel/UCxK...
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Whistleblownout Professor Dympna Waldron still reels more than twenty years after she blew the whistle on opioids in Irish hospitals, an extraordinary service if we lo0k to what happened in US hospitals By Michael Smith villagemagazine.ie/whistleblownout/
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Whistleblownout - Village Magazine
Dympna Waldron still reels more than twenty years after she blew the whistle on opioids in Irish hospitals.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Village's podcast: literature and the contemporary breakdown of the rule of law: Aristophanes via Ibsen to Lord Bingham studio.youtube.com/channel/UCxK...
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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Not Guilty! Episode 3 of Village's podcast on Law and Literature considers miscarriages of justice: Dreyfus, Oscar Wilde, Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e...
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Episode 3: miscarriages of justice: Dreyfus, Oscar Wilde, Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy
Podcast Episode · Law and Literature, Luke Sheehan interviews David Langwallner for Village podcasts. First episode · 10 March · 51m
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Episode Two of Village's Law and Literature Podcast is now live on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple. David Langwallner takes us from Shakespeare to the Nineteenth Century www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmn8...
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Episode 2. From the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
David Langwallner on Law and Literature: from Shakespeare to the Supreme Court. First episode in a series of Village podcasts. Now available on Youtube, Apple, Spotify etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJug...
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From Shakespeare to the Supreme Court. David Langwallner on Law and Literature
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Village Magazine @villagemagazine.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
David Langwallner on Law and Literature: from Shakespeare to the Supreme Court. First episode in a series of Village podcasts. Now available on Youtube, Apple, Spotify etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJug...
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From Shakespeare to the Supreme Court. David Langwallner on Law and Literature
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