HeyJaredLise Hand
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Lise Hand: Hilda Moriarty inspired ‘Raglan Road’, so why isn't she remembered? (opens the original)
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EIGHTY YEARS AGO this Saturday, on 3 October 1946, a poem was published in the Irish Press newspaper under the title ‘Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away’ to no acclaim at all. It was a love poem, an elegiac contemplation of unrequited love sparked by a raven-haired beauty whom the poet had met and befriended two years previously on a picturesque Dublin road lined by elegant red-bricked Victorian houses and graceful trees ablaze with the greens, golds and russets of autumn. However, it languished unpubl
Lise Hand: Swear to God, I saw U2 play in the Dandelion Market too (opens the original)
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IF I HAD been among the massive cohort of citizenry which apparently crammed into the GPO during the 1916 Rising, I’m pretty sure that I’d have had a decent recollection of doing my patriotic bit, ’mid cannons’ roar and rifles’ peal. But I am old enough to have been present when similar vast swathes of the nation’s youth allegedly stood on a different plot of Dublin city’s sacred ground and bore witness to another iconic and momentous turning-point in Irish life. Swear to God I saw U2 play in th
Lise Hand: 9/11 was televised. I was in New York that day. I’m glad I didn’t have a phone (opens the original)
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AT SOME POINT over the next few days, many 40-somethings and upwards will do one or all of these things: they’ll emit some class of profanity, possibly affixed to the word “holy”, shake their head in sorrowful disbelief, refuse aloud to believe that it’s been twentyeffingfive years, and bustle onto social media to share this chagrin to their score of followers #neverforget. Which would be a daft hashtag. It may be a whole quarter of a century on, but September 11, 2001 isn’t in any danger of sli
Lise Hand: Behold, the era of Ireland’s new castle kings has begun (opens the original)
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FOR ANY BATTLE-SCARRED survivors of 1980s Ireland, a faint aroma of Eau du Déjà Vu has been wafting around one particular news yarn over the past week. Amid all the heavy headlines about wars and droughts and carnage on our roads came the glad tidings that one of the world’s richest tech bro titans had nipped to the shops for some bits and returned home with Strancally Castle in County Waterford. Cue a chorus of hosannas from media outlets desperate for a bit of lightness in these dog days of Au
Lise Hand: AI companies destroying books to feed the machines? What fresh hell... (opens the original)
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IT’S NOT OFTEN these days that a news story will cause my jaw to hurtle floor-wards as an outward expression of inner stupefaction. Not because the news is any less terrible than it has been at any point since, oh the last century, what with plagues, wars, a burning planet, a demented cult dismantling American democracy and so on. It’s more a case of being in that state of insensible desensitisation experienced by the frog chilling in what it thought was a bubbling whirlpool, while idly observin
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