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@ArthurSteggles @simon_schama I couldn't get into Beowulf until I listened to Seamus's recording and it blew me away. How lucky we are that RTÉ recorded him reading his collections to mark his 70th birthday.

@simon_schama I'm with Larkin - poetry should be read from the printed page, not listened to

What’s With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry? nytimes.com/2026/02/02/art… T.S. Eliot (on Caedmon) has a lot to answer for - it's incantatory/episcopal; but then it also is on cylinder recording of Tennyson reading Charge of Light Brigade!

@BellaghyGAC I made it 1-13 to 1-12 ?

@TATFS Eleven Poems was 1965 not 1955

Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize 30 years ago this month. Just 30 years before that, he published his first pamphlet (Eleven Poems, 1955). Are there any poets – at all – who began publishing in the *last* 30 years who now seem like plausible Nobel contenders?

Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.

Remembering Seamus Heaney. 12 years dead today.

@JoeRoganCast @ZelenskyyUa How do you hold an election when you are under invasion by a fascist dictator. But you are too dumb to understand this, asshole.

Millions of people around the world are mourning the tragic news of Pope Francis’s passing. His life was devoted to God, to people, and to the Church. He knew how to give hope, ease suffering through prayer, and foster unity. He prayed for peace in Ukraine and for Ukrainians. We grieve together with Catholics and all Christians who looked to Pope Francis for spiritual support. Eternal memory!

@rodneydoan54 @MisaMichaelamys @PawlowskiMario This is the greatest load of bunk I have ever heard. You are obviously brain dead or a Russian fascist

@MisaMichaelamys @PawlowskiMario Ukraine, the most corrupt country on earth, bans religions, jails journalists, murders journalists! Yes, freeeeeedom. And of course, Dictator Zelensky.

BREAKING🇺🇳: The United States just voted against a UN resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. Only 8 countries opposed it: Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, Sudan… And now MAGA America. Let that sink in. We used to lead the free world. Now we’re voting with dictators, war criminals, and failed states. Fucking shame on 🇺🇸

@Harri_Est Ireland 🇮🇪 supports ✊ Ukraine 🇺🇦 🤝🙏💪

Leave flag of your country in the comments with ✊️ to show your support for 🇺🇦 and President Zelenskyy!

@RickMur72842973 @Harri_Est On what evidence, do you come to this conclusion?

@Harri_Est I no longer support Zelenskyy. He’s a conman.

@Rabbie54868057 @TadhgMaire @RobLooseCannon It is bogland, a large area of peat moss. Peat has been commercially collected from the area for many years. It was workers from the Bulrush Peat Company who discovered the body.

@TadhgMaire @RobLooseCannon Then it is not bogland after all? That changes the story of her death.

Fascinating new discoveries about the ancient human bog body that was found near Bellaghy in Derry in October of 2023. She was a young woman aged 17 to 22, now named the "Ballymacombs More Woman." She was from the Iron Age and died around 343 BCE to 1 BCE. Although she's well-preserved, her head is missing. She was likely decapitated as part of a ritual sacrifice. Collaborative research involving institutions across Ireland, Britain, and Europe found a woven plant-based artefact near the remains. There's more DNA analysis on the way. The remains are now housed at National Museums NI for further preservation. These photos are from the PSNI as initially it was feared the body was a modern murder.

@Rabbie54868057 @RobLooseCannon Yes, very near the River Bann which is the border between the modern counties of Derry and Antrim.

@RobLooseCannon Was it discovered near the border of the county? It appears many bog bodies were found near the boundaries.

@GrowRnotShower @vmaddox34 @P_Kallioniemi Zelensky was there because he was invited you brain dead moran, try reading a bit, it might help. Trump and Vance were embarrassing, in what was once a great country, now a rouge state

Do you think we can get 1000 "Fuck Trump" comments below?

@CNviolations "Nina" is the answer, this riddle has been around for years!

Do you know the woman's name?

@OLDMANandthaSEE @ElinaOdegard @CNviolations Rubbish, the word "what" does not appear anywhere which makes your answer nonsensical. You didn't read it properly and now you are trying to back-track - codicel, postlude, amendment - total crap Old Man

it was part of the post. who is to say precisely what the bounds of the "riddle" are or are not. think of the statement as a codicel to a will, or a postlude, or an ammendment. perhaps not the original main body of said riddle, but an essential part, nonetheless, as it indeed has the answer to the riddle.

@TheRichFromCali Trump's legacy is already ruined with his support for Putin - the worst fascist dictator since Hitler. No matter what happens, this single act will be his disastrous legacy.

@thegaeliccorner Shameful decision by the referee to award a penalty when it should have been a free out and shameful that Crossmolina celebrated such a blatant case of 'lets help the unfortunate'

Conor Loftus scored the winning penalty for Crossmolina in the All-Ireland final. A special special moment for himself and the parish after the recent tragic passing of his fiancé Roisin Cryan. Someone was looking down on him today ❤️

@officialgaa Aah, now changed to 11 January

@officialgaa Why is the Club football semi-finals not on until February?

The dates, times, venues, and referees for all of this weekend's All-Ireland club championship fixtures are confirmed. #GAABelong #TheToughest gaa.ie/article/this-w…

@milanpaurich @DannyDrinksWine @mascuch This is so Wells. The best line in the film, in fact, any film.

@milanpaurich @DannyDrinksWine @mascuch “In Italy, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”