Tag: irish history
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Irish Punk Bangers
Recently I’ve been attempting to recall the results of a certain patch-decked census, namely the list of one-off punk bands I’ve seen over the years. Next came another, more troubling thought: if tomorrow morning a hemorrhage turned my wits to water, who would wrest this mantle and detail those defunct Irish punk and metal bands…
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What Do We Do Finer
What does Ireland do better? Is our intrigue the Aran sweater And womb-bred taste for horse’s fetters, Or is identity no deeper than the depth a feather Reaches through water. Like leather Are we sturdy, but peopled untogether. What does Ireland do finer? Ours is not the realm of vines, nor winers; No sun that…
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Shamanic Super Strength
Was Fintan alone in his transformative, marvelesque abilities or did he hail from a race of magical people who, by supernatural and likely shamanic means, raised certain of the megalithic structures of ambiguous antiquity. Later raised are those lesser structures which although magnificence are mere copies of the liths of the men of the dawn…
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Dulce(t) Tones
What intrigued more is Vallee’s long reminiscences on the testing of the first nuclear bomb and the experiences of the hyper-intelligent cabal of scientists living out on a ranch in the desert, which more than any other building sees form obscure function; a simple wooden house, no frills, for the completion of the Great Work…
Alchemisland 