@BlakeCreedon

A sub-editor at the Irish Examiner Group 📷Garreth Joyce mural & Frank Brandt ESB logo, Carey's Lane https://xitter.cf/t.co/Vuwuqb18x5 + Eclipse by Kathy Prendergast, Crawford Gallery

 Cork, Ireland
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Joined June 2009
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Paul and Linda McCartney at Cork Airport in August 1971 with their daughters Heather (8) and Mary (4), and their Old English Sheepdog Martha, my dear (5). youtube.com/watch?v=RXawa90Y…
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Standing room only @Waterstones @CultureNight Special to join my friends @GraMurphy and Gerry Murphy. Thanks to all who came along to join in the celebration - Míle Buíochas, John Breen and all the crew at Waterstones who made it happen. @WaterstonesCrk
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What A Blast! Raising the Roof and Rattling the Rafters – at The Launch of The Bere Island Arts Festival last evening. It was absolutely massive - Thank you to far too many people to mention here. Cx. @BereIslandGroup @BereIslandFerry @WAGlamping
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Cathal Coughlan remembered on his anniversary by Microdisney bandmate @seanohaganmusic @irishexaminer irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…

Cathal Coughlan remembered on his anniversary: 'Cathal opened up Cork to me'

Around the first anniversary of the death of Cork music legend Cathal Coughlan, his Microdisney bandmate Sean O'Hagan recalls the heady days of the Leeside music scene in the 1980s

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Teenage Cathal Coughlan and Chris McCarthy with their new band Microdisney, outside AIB on the South Mall, Cork. PLINK PLINK FIZZ 1980 (with photo taken in 1980 by @usedtobe_ie) #CathalCoughlan #Microdisney
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Bit of chatter recently about printed programmes in decline at LoI games, but @CorkCityFC one has some great reading in fairness
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Nice to see the Irish Examiner picked up on my essay - Eurovision - Zeitgest Barometer . Thank you Deirdre O'Shaughnessy.
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Had the pleasure of seeing Bláithín Mac Gabhann & Siobhan McSweeney many years ago, perform in their very earliest student productions. Now starring at National Theatre London. The production, performances is magnificent. An absolutely mighty night in London Town. Corcaigh Abú
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Collective silence spared sexual aggressors like Brendan Behan irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…

Terry Prone: Collective silence spared sexual aggressors like Brendan Behan

Long before MeToo made it possible to speak about sexual assault, Brendan Behan is alleged to have attempted to rape publicist Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Great coverage of Gen Liam Lynch Centenary Commemoration in Fermoy. Thank you Sean O Riordan irishexaminer.com/news/munst…

Irish Civil War: Thousands take part in Liam Lynch centenary commemoration in Fermoy

Bands from the US and Argentina join commemoration of a man described at his graveside as 'a soldier's soldier'

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Death by Rooster irishexaminer.com/news/spotl…

Death by Rooster: The extraordinary life and death of Jasper Kraus

Jasper Kraus’s death was pure clickbait gold. Or rather, chick-bait. When the international press got wind of a man killed by a rooster in Ireland, it was open season on the headlines.

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📢We bring the FUAIM season to a close with a concert by the wonderful UCC Choir, directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, in collaboration with singer and songwriter, Brian Kennedy. Please join us in St. Fin Barre's Cathedral or via the livestream for a spectacular season finale.👏
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I'm Delighted to be the Master of Ceremony of this Concert. St; Finbarre's Cathedral. 16th Dec 1.10pm I Can't wait. Eva McMullan - Brian Kennedy - two of my favourites
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Any event with @ConalCreedon is an occasion to savour and he'll put some #Cork into #IrishBookWeek on the 18th when he chats to @MikeMoynihanEx about this year's #CorkOneCityOneBook Pancho & Lefty Ride Again. It'll be only massive. @corkcitylibrary @irishexaminer @echolive – at Cork, Ireland
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My Marketing Manager guarantees that this will be shipped as soon as she finishes her homework. In the shops tomorrow. Available Waterstones. Cork. On-line : IrishtownPress.com
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Here goes! Sending my latest labour of love off into the world. Huge gratitude to everyone who contributed. Especially the children of 1930s Ireland. bookstation.ie/product/an-ir…
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I'm looking forward to Inchigeela this evening, I have previously presented this lecture at Zurich University The James Joyce Foundation Zurich- Cork City Library and at University College Cork - published by Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies - FUPRESS
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This is correct. Owens (and the other African American athletes were never invited to the Whitehouse. Owens later said ‘The president didn't even send me a telegram.’ 1/n
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James Cleveland Owens was his full name (he was called Jesse on account of his Alabama pronunciation of his initials).
Jesse Owens sprinting in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

ALT Jesse Owens sprinting in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

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