The Provies didnāt help.
That had fuck all to do with them closing.
https://magill.ie/archive/dont-cry-just-yet-ferenka
Not a bad read here if you can ignore the typos
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They seem to have been a ruthless, miserly shower of bastards to work for. Iāll give Herrema a break seeing as heās dead but he wasnāt no happy, jolly uncle either. RIP.
Poet Eavan Boland, a staple of Leaving Cert English for many years.
R.I.P
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in case anybody here doesnāt know this already
Quarantine
by Eavan Boland
In the worst hour of the worst season
of the worst year of a whole people
a man set out from the workhouse with his wife.
He was walking ā they were both walking ā north.
She was sick with famine fever and could not keep up.
He lifted her and put her on his back.
He walked like that west and west and north.
Until at nightfall under freezing stars they arrived.
In the morning they were both found dead.
Of cold. Of hunger. Of the toxins of a whole history.
But her feet were held against his breastbone.
The last heat of his flesh was his last gift to her.
Let no love poem ever come to this threshold.
There is no place here for the inexact
praise of the easy graces and sensuality of the body.
There is only time for this merciless inventory:
Their death together in the winter of 1847.
Also what they suffered. How they lived.
And what there is between a man and woman.
And in which darkness it can best be proved.
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Shite. Doesnāt rhyme.
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Jaysus and I thought Seamus Heaney was shiteā¦
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Thatās a great readā¦
āMiss a Day, Your Mates Will Payā
Heffo gets a mentionā¦
Judging by rules in his factory Iād say your man found the kidnapping a walk in the parkā¦ Iād say nowadays there would be war if the government was giving grants to a company who had such draconian workplace measures.
Col Billy Ringrose has jumped his last fence
Miami Dolphin legend Coach Shula has passed.
RIP Coach
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A true great
Winningest coach in NFL history?
Stranglers keyboardist Dave Greenfield, 71 - Coronavirus.
Writer of golden brown IIRC
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, Covid related.
This bollix
I thought he was long dead.
May he have died screaming.
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