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Bás Beatha
Talk of apocalypse and social isolation reminds me of a booklet sent out to all homes in Ireland in the mid 1960s. The civil defence service published it as a handy guide on how to survive a nuclear war. It was kept in houses all over the country for years, often hanging on a peg…
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Every infected person changes something.
Good account in Slate from Annalisa Bergna, a 29-year-old biologist working in Milan, about working to isolate and understand Covid-19
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Covid-19 reading
I started reading this book during the first days of the Covid-19 shutdown. I remember someone recommending it on a podcast some months ago. It’s a wonderful trawl through the glory days of UK pop and rock music of the 1960s and 70s. It all seems so far away now. Buried deep in the nostalgic…
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The Beauty of Machines
Reading this article in Wired today reminded me of a photo I took on one my last visits to Lettermullen in 2003. It’s my mother’s old Bendix washing machine from the late 1970s. Some months before he died, my brother placed it in that spot. In the doorway of an old shed built over a…
Antoine Ó Flatharta 