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#OTD in 1641 – The Battle of Julianstown | Rory O’More defeated government troops marching to raise the siege of Drogheda.

The Battle of Julianstown was fought during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, at Julianstown near Drogheda, Co Louth in November 1641. The prelude to the planned Siege of Drogheda 1641 by northern counties insurgents led by Sir Phelim O’Neil and supporters from Cavan and Monaghan to lay siege to the strategic garrison, grain store and seaport. Insurgents, during their plan to unsettle English rule in…

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Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 106: Scanners

In this week’s episode David Cronenberg’s legendary film Scanners goes under the spotlight. It stars Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. All that plus your usual twisted trio arguing about film and tv!   https://cultfaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Episode-106.mp3  

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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are 'Knight and Day' on Amazon Prime

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are ‘Knight and Day’ on Amazon Prime

Tom Cruise plays to his strengths in this colorful spy fantasy Knight and Day (2010), bouncing through as an unfailingly polite boy scout of a covert agent with a smooth-talking charm and ninja spy skills, and Cameron Diaz is the beautiful civilian who gets tangled up in his latest mission. Think of it as an old-fashioned romantic adventure transferred to an action thriller, like a spy-movie…

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Rebellion reveals hardcover “Battle Action Special” from Garth Ennis - but we’d call it an Annual!

Rebellion reveals hardcover “Battle Action Special” from Garth Ennis – but we’d call it an Annual!

Rebellion has revealed plans for a 96-page hardcover Battle Action Special featuring eight new stories, all written by Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher), with a cover from Andy Clarke (Batman and Robin) and Dylan Teague (Madi) – and interior art by Kevin O’Neill, Keith Burns, Mike Dorey, John Higgins, Chris Burnham, Patrick Goddard and PJ Holden, as well as colourists Jason Wordie, Len O’Grady and…

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Books to Read From the Emerald Isle

Books to Read From the Emerald Isle

On this St. Patrick’s Day, we may not be able to celebrate with other people or visit the great country, full of heritage and culture. But with a pint of Guiness (or Irish Breakfast tea would be my personal preference), you can visit Ireland from the comfort of your favorite reading chair by reading these amazing books by Irish authors: Continue reading

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NYPD is in Distress, Streets Falling to Chaos

NYPD is in Distress, Streets Falling to Chaos

The head of the NYPD Police Benevolent Association is calling for a “no confidence” vote for both NYC Mayor De Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill. And he wants both of them removed from their offices: The “NYPD is in distress and the streets are falling to chaos.”

After commissioner O’Neill announced that he was firing Officer Daniel Pantaleo over the Eric Garner incident from 2014,…

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Favourite Covers | Top Ten Tuesday

Favourite Covers | Top Ten Tuesday

The topic this week is Freebie! I decided to do the topic originally done on July 20, 2010 Favourite Covers!!

I knew as soon as I did the freebie that this was the topic I wanted to do. There are so many pretty books coming out recently! I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by it’s cover but I’m definitely the kind of person who buys a book just because it looked pretty. Here are a few of…

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Podcast: Moonfall & Our Flag Means Death

This week on he Awesome Friday Podcast: #Moonfall & #OurFlagMeansDeath. Join us! @OurFlagHBOMax @MoonfallFilm #PodernFamily #PodcastHQ #PodNation #Podbean #Podoamatic #FilmFestival #Film #HBOMax

Greeting programs, and welcome to the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week we’re taking a closer look at the new ridiculous (in a good way) Roland Emmerich film Moonfall and the Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi led series Our Flag Means Death. Spoiler alert we loved both of these things, so come and join us for a love fest. (more…)

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9th Level Games Launches The Traged13s of Middle School

9th Level Games Launches The Traged13s of Middle School #games #RPG #LARP

9th Level Games, makers of the Kobolds Ate My Baby series, have launched their latest Kickstarter campaign for The Traged13s of Middle School an anthology of tabletop role-playing games, story games, live action games, and other strangeness inspired by the greatest HORROR of all… junior high. Each game in The Tragedies of Middle School centers around a nostalgic junior high activity – spin the…

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Complete Cast, Design and Production Team for Muny's 'Guys and Dolls' Announced

Complete Cast, Design and Production Team for Muny’s ‘Guys and Dolls’ Announced

Ken Page to Star in his 41st Muny Show

The Muny announced today its complete cast, design and production team for Guys and Dolls, the first show of its second century, June 10 – 16. Guys and Dolls is proudly sponsored by Wells Fargo Advisors.

“We soar into our second century with one of the most beloved musicals of the last century,” said Muny Artistic Director and Executive Producer Mike…

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#OTD in 1641 – The Battle of Julianstown | Rory O’More defeated government troops marching to raise the siege of Drogheda.

#OTD in 1641 – The Battle of Julianstown | Rory O’More defeated government troops marching to raise the siege of Drogheda.

The Battle of Julianstown was fought during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, at Julianstown near Drogheda, Co Louth in November 1641. The prelude to the planned Siege of Drogheda 1641 by northern counties insurgents led by Sir Phelim O’Neil and supporters from Cavan and Monaghan to lay siege to the strategic garrison, grain store and seaport. Insurgents, during their plan to unsettle English rule in…

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GAK

We recently lost an artist, a friend, an exemplary role model of human kindness. Gak will forever be with us, his work hanging on walls, filling the pages of books, some of his art even tattooed onto skin. His life will always be remembered because he always made ours a little better.

Below are the illustrations he created for The Library of the Dead, one of his final projects. We had future…

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Statement by Michelle O'Neill MLA on the resignation of Barry McElduff as MP for West Tyrone

Statement by Michelle O’Neill MLA on the resignation of Barry McElduff as MP for West Tyrone

15 January, 2018 – by Michelle O’Neill “Yesterday evening, Barry McElduff informed me of his intention to resign as Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone. “Barry is doing so as a consequence of the unintended hurt caused to the Kingsmill victims and their loved ones by his recent social media tweet. “Barry recognises that this controversy and his continuing role in public office is compounding the…

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"The Foreigner" Opens at Home Made Theater

“The Foreigner” Opens at Home Made Theater

Home Made Theater closes their 32nd season with Larry Shue’s comedy The Foreigner. The show runs weekends April 22 through May 7 at the Spa Little Theater in the Saratoga Spa State Park. Charlie Baker is a painfully shy Englishman who’s terrified of conversation – with anyone! So when he’s dropped off at Betty Meeks’ rural Georgia hunting lodge for a few days of peace and quiet, the local…

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The Cliffs of Moher

Today is St. Patrick’s Day and unfortunately, not a lot of people will be able to partake in any festivities this year. But that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate the great things that this rich and vibrant country has to offer in the comfort of your own home. And reading is the best way to do it!

One of the things I love about Ireland, other than this beautiful landscapes and lively music, is their dynamic collection of literature. And in the past year or two that has become true with female writers, who are becoming the front-runners in this revolution. So, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day AND Women’s History Month, here are some Irish literature, written by female authors, that you should definitely add to your TBR list:

 The Accident Season, Spellbook of the Lost and Found and All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley Doyle

All three of these books were amazing in their individual way, although All the Bad Apples is my favorite one of the three. Doyle highlighted the issues and realism of Irish society, embraced with magical realism, that would make this narrative relevant to any reader.

Milkman by Anna Burns

In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary named Milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him–and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend–rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day. (Credit: Graywolf Press)

Normal People by Sally Rooney

This reminded me a little bit of Milkman by Anna Burns but not because of the complexity of reading the text, but because of the deeper meaning that was behind the story. This is not your average “coming of age” love story. Rooney actually was able to take a new spin on a genre that has been done a million times and make it different and something that makes the reader thinks. Marianne and Connell are too young people who fall in love but have a hard time being together due to their personal worlds being so different, both economically and emotionally. But Rooney explores these issues with wit, sharpness, sincerity, and acuteness that is a breath of fresh air. She doesn’t hold anything back, especially with her remarks on the literary world.

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

Follow Me to Ground is fascinating and frightening, urgent and propulsive. In Ada, award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body. Slim but authoritative, Follow Me to Ground lingers long after its final page, pulling the reader into a dream between fairytale and nightmare, desire and delusion, folktale and warning. (Credit: Scribner)

Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.

How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And how do you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland? In these powerful and daring essays, Sinead Gleeson does that very thing. In doing so she delves into a range of subjects: art, illness, ghosts, grief, and our very ways of seeing. In writing that is in tradition of some of our finest writers such as Olivia Laing, Maggie O’Farrell, and Maggie Nelson, and yet still in her own spirited, warm voice, Gleeson takes us on a journey that is both personal and yet universal in its resonance. (Credit: Picador Books)

Louise O’Neill

O’Neill tackles issues that most people are afraid to touch with a ten foot pole. That is why her books are loved and enjoyed by many readers across many generations.

  A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride’s debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist. To read A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator’s head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn’t always comfortable – but it is always a revelation. (Credit: Hogarth)

  The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father Tony, whose obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his family. Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious conversion has dangerous repercussions, while Maureen, the accidental murderer, has returned to Cork after forty years in exile to discover that Jimmy, the son she was forced to give up years before, has grown into the most fearsome gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of other perceived sins, Maureen threatens to destroy everything her son has worked so hard for, while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of the Irish underworld into the spotlight . . . (Credit: Hodder & Stoughton)

Femal Irish Authors Making Their Mark Today is St. Patrick's Day and unfortunately, not a lot of people will be able to partake in any festivities this year.

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Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years | Top Ten Tuesday

Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years | Top Ten Tuesday

The topic this week is Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years!

This was such a fun topic to do! I read a TON of books from some of these years, and some I only had a handful to pick from. I can’t believe how old I am when I remember where I read some of these. This decade spans my entire high school and college career as well as my two first full-time jobs! A lot changed for me over…