tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.comments2023-09-11T16:32:45.839+02:00The Pleasures of Underachievementseanachiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15359354940953059605noreply@blogger.comBlogger344125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-61197761441825613442017-12-11T19:58:09.655+01:002017-12-11T19:58:09.655+01:00Typo in previous comment courtesy of my stupid spe...Typo in previous comment courtesy of my stupid spell checker. It should read 'announced my twittercide'.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821834904510771798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-31630678288752363882017-12-11T19:56:45.657+01:002017-12-11T19:56:45.657+01:00On the 30th April 2017 I announced my twitter idle...On the 30th April 2017 I announced my twitter idle. Within an hour the police forced my door open after one of my paedophile super trolls told them I had announced my suicide!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821834904510771798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-66332035686904446052017-09-22T07:49:53.323+02:002017-09-22T07:49:53.323+02:00I welcome all the suggestion mentioned in this blo...I welcome all the suggestion mentioned in this blog related to new learning skills. It is definitely going to help me to adopt new exited way of learning. 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The book's intro on Amazon reads; "In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack." Our very great uncle Charles Vereker led the attack on those French forces of General Humbert which apparently checked, delayed and prepared for their defeat and surrender. Charles and family were loyal to England but were also publicly outspoken against the Act of Union which dissolved the Irish Parliament.<br /><br />Charles Vereker was uncle of our great great grandfather John Lloyd Esq. of Lisheen Castle, Co. Tipperary who came to Canada in 1856. John's 2nd wife Mary Ann Minton, our GG grandmother, was born into an Irish Catholic family in Co. Waterford. She told the story to her daughter Kate that her own grandparents had died at the 1798 Battle of Vinegar Hill.<br /><br />Our Redmond family were living at Hollyfort Co. Wexford and so were in the middle of the 1798 Wexford rebellion; a handful of kilometers from the townland of Ballylusk near Monaseed, home of Myles Byrne, a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and Chef de Bataillon in Napoleon’s Irish Legion. I have read his memoirs which tell the story of the rebellion. https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmilesby01byrniala<br /><br />We have folk on all sides of this tale. Sarah Cadogan, Grandmother of Lord Edward FitzGerald, a great great grandson of King Charles 11 and a leader of the Rebellion, was a first cousin of our ancestor Elizabeth Prendergast, daughter of Penelope Cadogan and Sir Thomas Prendergast. (Jonathan Swift not a pal of his son, also Sir Thomas. see 'On Noisy Tom' by J.S p.557https://books.google.ca/books?id=_3UEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA557&lpg=PA557&dq=jonathan+swift+thomas+prendergast&source=bl&ots=jbb8O4-Coi&sig=EuTvcd_rPjpzYE9skunq3N-11XM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX7tuC85fVAhWIxYMKHVq0Dx0Q6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=jonathan%20swift%20thomas%20prendergast&f=false ...ha) .<br /><br />I therefore feel compelled to read Flanagan's novel.<br />Keep you posted.<br /><br />It became a best-seller in the US, and also sold very well in Ireland. In Ireland, too, it had a remarkable second life after the national television company,...to make it into a film that was broadcast on television in late 1982 in a six-part series.<br /><br />Flanagan, Thomas. The Year of the French (New York Review Books Classics) . New York Review Books. Kindle Edition.<br /><br />http://www.goodreads.com/…/sh…/651858.The_Year_of_the_French<br /><br />John Redmondjohn r redmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06936879310918107904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-11268453492244415522015-11-16T09:03:15.269+01:002015-11-16T09:03:15.269+01:00Hello Everybody,
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Before Sunrise is the most uninteresting of the three, as callow and gauche as its two main characters, the original conversation on the train retains its charm but the meandering around Vienna is pretty dull with the benefit of hindsight.<br /><br />Before Sunset was (appropriately) a far more adult work. It was a tougher film, harder on its main characters, and quite merciless in its observation that the appealing quirks that are charming in a gorgeous young man or woman can mature into self-absorbed dysfunction when approaching middle age. And it had a marvellous ending that the other two films lack.LukeMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14380192520649732527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-6919745629433759542013-04-23T20:20:52.833+02:002013-04-23T20:20:52.833+02:00Hello! I simply would like to offer you a huge thu...Hello! 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The HBO film is coming out in cinemas outside the US, or at least in France. I don't think he'll give up on films either but he probably misses the fallow period in the 90s, prior to Out of Sight, when he was able to experiment more freely. We'll probably see more of that.seanachiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15359354940953059605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-79305107348715443362013-04-19T10:10:10.695+02:002013-04-19T10:10:10.695+02:00Matt Damon said something perceptive about Soderbe...Matt Damon said something perceptive about Soderbergh - that he had no interest in storytelling, just in form. I think Out Of Sight is the moment when his slickness and deft control met at a story with enough heart and entertainment value to create perfection. I think it was also George Clooney's first film role that wasn't a disaster. SS abandoning of cinema in favour of television seems overblown to me - he's got a new HBO film coming out and a series to followLukeMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14380192520649732527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-34818407372489911702013-04-17T16:24:01.820+02:002013-04-17T16:24:01.820+02:00Great review Sean. Wonderful cast that does everyt...Great review Sean. Wonderful cast that does everything in their will with these characters, but a movie that can’t keep up the pace with them all that much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-31472466677079767822013-04-17T12:17:43.860+02:002013-04-17T12:17:43.860+02:00Didn't realise you were back in action. Good t...Didn't realise you were back in action. Good to see. I'm seeing this tomorrow. Ok, mainly for Patton's score.James Mulhollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16914050903449746139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-33673458288331211232012-03-11T00:20:29.748+01:002012-03-11T00:20:29.748+01:00In response to 'anonymous' above the guy i...In response to 'anonymous' above the guy is guilty. 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I am considering -- though I have not worked up the nerve -- to do it myself. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and story.Mike Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06579829839022633950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-73195744907260199812011-02-07T16:55:23.991+01:002011-02-07T16:55:23.991+01:00It's interesting to hear what you have to say ...It's interesting to hear what you have to say about him. An interesting fact, I was in Viña del Mar, Chile, the day he died and remember waking up to horns honking and general chaos. Although there were two kinds of chaos that day. There were some who celebrated his death like a game of fútbol and others who mourned his passing. Others still set Santiago on fire! <br /><br />One thing I learned from talking with Chileans is that you never know who supported him and who didn't and it wasn't good form to ask either. <br /><br />Even after all these years the country is still divided over the issue. Fortunately it was just a phase and all the killing has stopped and he stepped down and now all is relatively well. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing!Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01112280949591217660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-4524370318878954172011-02-07T16:43:05.642+01:002011-02-07T16:43:05.642+01:00I like what you've put up here--especially Pol...I like what you've put up here--especially Police and Nostalgia for the Light... I lived in Chile for a while and loved it. Thanks for sharing--I'll be following you!Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01112280949591217660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30964029.post-52770035855480296092011-01-18T16:00:04.561+01:002011-01-18T16:00:04.561+01:00You have a nice blog.
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