Irish writer/journalist/translator based in Paris.
Olibhéir Ó Fearraigh
Another customised car for the Michel Gondry shoot. #movies #filmset #paris #auto #menilmontant (Taken with Instagram at Rue Etienne Dolet)
“Every October his name is among those bandied about for the Nobel Prize, yet mention him to most English speakers, even literary types, and you will be met with terribly blank looks.”
(Source: themillions.com)
The Oatfield Factory in Letterkenny, from my inaugural post for Where’s Grandad, where I focus on Donegal’s strange industrial subculture.
Just as pets are said to resemble their owners, so award ceremonies like their winners to resemble themselves.
Another great film by Mickey Smith - makes me homesick for the raw power of west. No where like it at all.
The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991)
This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks…
stuffparty: “Apparently there was no wartime typeface shortage.”
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Item from the U.S. Food Administration, 1917 - 1920.
The World War II equivalent of ‘eat up, there are children starving in Africa’.
The first espresso bar opened in Reykjavík on 9 January 1958. From a newspaper that day: “The coffee there is made with an Italian method using steam pressure and is supposed to be very strong and uplifting.”
Photo: Andrés Kolbeinsson
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