If you enjoyed reading this and are wondering if I subsequently wrote a very excellent and - I'm forced to admit - award-winning book about my childhood, the answer is YES, and you can buy it here. Mammybook.com

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Happy sixth ketaversary to all who celebrate.

it's that time of year, on his date of execution, when I mention that when Thomas McDonagh taught his last ever class at UCD on Jane Austen, he signed off with 'There's no one like Jane, lads!' and then went out to start a revolution

We did it Joe.

FOUR LONG YEARS it took me, but I'm in Belfast today for AVA Festival x SEANCHOÍCHE so I *finally* got to see this in the flesh.

I'll be telling the full tale at the Titanic Pumphouse tonight. Come along!

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#RememberingIreland #VisitBelfast

Want to hear a funny story about something that happened to me this weekend? It concerns the internet, elephants, and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

In the latest evidence of this hellsite being a racist sewer, the vast majority of posts about Newtownmountkennedy are coming from…. the United States.

Just 20% of posts originated in Ireland.

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This is straight up propaganda. CNN has completely lost the plot.

All You Need Is Death is number 8 in The A.V. Club's 13 Best Horror Films of 2024!

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Very pleased that my new radio doc is a Radio Times pick of the day. Tune in next Tuesday!

Hey man, how are things? Just touching base about your progress pics. Come here to me,

nobody doing it like peter these days, immaculate character work time after time

twitter.com/The_Fence_Mag/… My latest piece for The Fence Magazine is now live.

A dispatch from the public memorial of the 'celebrity gangster' extraordinaire, Dave Courtney. It's a look at Britain's long-standing villain fetish, and the life of a highly controversial entertainer.

Same issue as Sachin Kureishi’s piece, and same issue as Clive Martin’s latest.

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I don't say this lightly: getting Clive Martin to attend Dave Courtney's wake and write about it, is about as great as it gets for a listless, blackhearted magazine ed.

Read him do just that in this brand new piece from The Fence #19.

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One of my best procrastination techniques is agonising over character names. If someone calls me on it, I bring up my old pal Anophthalmus hitleri - a beetle now hunted to near extinction because some Nazi dork named it after Hitler. I refuse to let that happen to one of my guys.

'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer

Performed by Eric Cantona

Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow

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