31 May 2006
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*Auto post no 2* The World Cup is almost here. Football is going to dominate all the newspapers and tv coverage. The whole world will go football crazy. Well, parts of it will. We didn’t qualify. So instead of looking … Continue reading
29 May 2006
Setting: 1650s
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Auto blog post while I’m away #1 Wherever you go at the moment you can’t avoid seeing references to the Da Vinci Code. It is everywhere. The past few years have been bad enough with the book appearing in commuter … Continue reading
26 May 2006
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This week had been so very very slow. I’m not the only one who feels this way am I? Mon and Tues draaaged by. As though they were never going to leave. I didn’t really mind at the time. Monday … Continue reading
26 May 2006
Call no: 796.334
Script: John Dowder, Mark Monroe
Genre: documentary, sport
Setting: 1970s, New York
7 Stars
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Pelé Franz Beckenbauer Giorgio Chinaglia Carlos Alberto Rodney Marsh In the late 70′s and early 80′s there was an attempt made to launch football in the United States of America. Ultimately, it failed, but for a few years the New … Continue reading
25 May 2006
Cast: Andrew Airlie
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Although I continue to be delighra and exi’ra[1] over Munster’s win, it has had a negative impact on my life. Well, a positive and negative. See publicity for Munster means that people are searching for Munster related stuff on the … Continue reading
24 May 2006
Call no: 796.09415
Genre: non-fiction, sport
Setting: Ireland
7 Stars
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Gaelic Sport in Ireland ISBN: 0297835661 The waves are hissing the secrets of winter. They arrive here bearing a wind which has lost no sharpness since it left the west coast of Scotland. The roads are empty and frosted tonight. … Continue reading
24 May 2006
Call no: 920, 942.01
Genre: biography, history, non-fiction
Setting: Britain - Anglo-Saxon & Viking, C10th
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A history of power, love and greed in 11th-century England ISBN 0747574898 Read with Medieval Britain book group She looks a little peevish, although this would not have been the intention of the artist This is the story of Queen … Continue reading
23 May 2006
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My good humour from Sat has evaporated. And everything is conspiring to make me grumpy. Well, either that or I’m interpreting everything to make me grumpy. And the weird thing is that I know exactly why[1] I’m grumpy, and it … Continue reading
23 May 2006
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Seems that the kerfuffle over the New York hurling win is growing. See they were supposed to lose, like they do every other year, but on this occasion they defeated Derry. So they should be playing Antrim in Ulster in … Continue reading
22 May 2006
Cast: Andrew Airlie
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