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		<title>Nesta’s Relentless Brood: deleted chapter from work-in-progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[there follows a rough draft of what was to be a chapter in my work-in-progress, now deleted. I’m publishing it here in case it’s of interest to anyone. Click to enlarge image. The action, as it were, takes place in the mid-12th century.] Nesta’s Relentless Brood What Dermot may have had in mind, and indeed <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/nestas-relentless-brood-deleted-chapter-from-work-in-progress/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>KaaBloomsday, June 16, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[you can click to enlarge and see slide show (hover mouse over middle right or left edge). June 16 is of course famous throughout the world as Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce first walked out with his future wife Nora Barnacle, an event he marked by setting his novel Ulysses on that day. <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/kaabloomsday-june-16-2010/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Ownership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating new series of talks begins this evening, May 7, 2010, at Christine Clear’s The Living Room. What she calls ‘contemplative conversations’ have the collective title of “Taking Ownership: conversations exploring a radical sense of responsiblity in contemporary Ireland.” The inaugural talk is The Responsibility of the Individual, by Professor Ivor Browne These conversations <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/taking-ownership/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Need A General Election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc6ZY91kUTk Related Posts:Arts Council congratulates 7 new members of AosdánaTaking OwnershipKaaBloomsday, June 16, 2010Vote Mannix No 1!All Ireland Poetry Day]]></description>
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		<title>Arts Council congratulates 7 new members of Aosdána</title>
		<description><![CDATA[click to enlarge The Arts Council has sent its congratulations to the 7 artists who were elected as members of Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. Francis Harvey, Vona Groarke, Conor McPherson, Gráinne Mulvey, Sheila O’Donnell, Kevin Volans and Yvonne Farrell were elected as members at the Aosdána General Assembly in the Armagh <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/arts-council-congratulates-7-new-members-of-aosdana/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Aosdána votes unanimously for motion seeking clarification of Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday and Thursday (April 14 and 15) Aosdána held its 2010 agm in the Armagh City Hotel, under the auspices of the Armagh City and District Council and the North South Ministerial Council, which is based in Armagh. It was the first meeting to be held in Northern Ireland (the only other agm held <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/aosdana-votes-unanimously-for-motion-on-residential-redress-act-2002/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman Who Danced With Her Cross On O’Connell Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo owned by Who Remembers the Woman that danced on O’Connell St Facebook Page When I saw the headline Tribute paid to Dublin character, by Olivia Kelly in the Irish Times, I feared that one of the few public witnesses to her gospel that I had ever warmed to was dead. Happily, Mary Margaret Dunne <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/the-woman-who-danced-with-her-cross-on-oconnell-street/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philipcasey.com/the-woman-who-danced-with-her-cross-on-oconnell-street/</link>
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		<title>One Hundred and Thirty Nine Years of Solitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo owned by Dan4th (cc) Back in 1992 or 93, I was asked to write a poem to commemorate 139 years of The Christian Brothers School in Gorey. I obliged in the only way I knew how, but of course it wasn’t published. Perhaps it would be now, though it’s far from a masterpiece. Maybe <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/one-hundred-and-thirty-nine-years-of-solitude/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philipcasey.com/one-hundred-and-thirty-nine-years-of-solitude/</link>
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		<title>European Ghost Literary Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago I was contacted by Marcel Admiraal about his European Ghost Literary Project. This is his press release. The Project In the European Ghost Literary Project we want to collect a good number of stories based on European folklore, fairy tales, myths and legends, told by the people who know them best. <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/european-ghost-literary-project/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Early versions of Irish Writers Online and Irish Culture Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was asked by an MA research student to give some background about Irish Writers Online. A most gratifying request, of course, and so I set about looking up its history and stats. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in 2009, visitors from 170 countries had made use of it. I knew it <a href="http://blog.philipcasey.com/early-versions-of-irish-writers-online-and-irish-culture-guide/"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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