Notes

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Saturday, March 28th, 2026

Loads of musicians playing at a long table in a packed pub.

Saturday evening session in Tullamore

Four young women playing music on fiddles and concertina.

Saturday afternoon session in Tullamore

Friday, March 27th, 2026

A session with a bunch of musicians standing on their seats while they play.

It’s gettin’ wild in Tullamore tonight!

A load of young people playing music on flute, accordion, pipes, and more.

Friday evening session in Tullamore

Going to Tullamore. brb

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026

Three women in a row playing fiddle at a round table in a cosy pub.

Wednesday session

It’s a real missed opportunity in Project Hail Mary that at no point does anyone look to the camera with a steely gaze and declare, “It’s daylight saving time.”

Monday, March 23rd, 2026

Reading Finn Mac Cool by Morgan Llywelyn.

It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:

expert in a dying field

or

collaborator in a fascist project.

Friday, March 20th, 2026

Two concertina players and a guitarist playing at a pub table in front of a window.

Friday session

The poster for Dune with Paul Atreides and Chaani both holding cris knives, but the title reads: Dude, have you ever, like, really looked at a knife?

Having fun with https://pixelframe.design/dune-font-logo-generator/

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

A man playing pipes next a woman playing fiddle in a pub.

Thursday session

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name.

The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

Three fiddlers and a piper chatting around a table in a cosy pub.

Second St. Patrick’s Day session

A piper dressed in a green bishop’s outfit in front of the Irish tricolour …in a pub.

’Tis Saint Patrick himself!

Three young girls dancing in unison in a busy pub.

Interlude with dancers

A woman playing concertina, a man playing tin whistle, and another man playing guitar, all in a circle around a small pub table.

First St. Patrick’s Day session

It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland…

Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D

Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh, a chairde!

Monday, March 16th, 2026

Just heard the sad news of Dolores Keane’s passing.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

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