Hardcore for Nerds

"Why sneer at the intellectuals?"*
punk music, left politics, and cultural history - previously found here.
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Dublin, Ireland. 24, male, history graduate
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*from the title of a review of Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure by Michael Foot, Evening Standard, Nov. 26, 1943.
May 13
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summer’s eve in south Dublin
  1. The Sugar Loaf
  2. Bulrushes
  3. Little Grebe

view from the burbs dublin irish photography nature
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Apr 19
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it’s nice to live beside the sea
(not as nice to see the inside of the adjacent baths, although it’s kind of touching in a horrifying way… a mixture of sentimentality and disgust, to be sick with nostalgia for something you’ve only ever seen the ruins of)
there’s a mural painted on the wall which has some lines about the quiet sound of the waves, which wasn’t in evidence today with a northerly wind. but that just made the smell of salt and seaweed stronger, which is good and therapeutic…

it’s nice to live beside the sea

(not as nice to see the inside of the adjacent baths, although it’s kind of touching in a horrifying way… a mixture of sentimentality and disgust, to be sick with nostalgia for something you’ve only ever seen the ruins of)

there’s a mural painted on the wall which has some lines about the quiet sound of the waves, which wasn’t in evidence today with a northerly wind. but that just made the smell of salt and seaweed stronger, which is good and therapeutic…

view from the burbs phone pics dublin
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Mar 29
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summertime comes early to Ireland

scene to the below soundtrack

view from the burbs photography dublin
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Mar 17
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2012 - South Dublin, as seen from the Lead Mines chimney at Ballycorus

St. Patrick’s Day, 2012 - South Dublin, as seen from the Lead Mines chimney at Ballycorus

dublin irish phone pics view from the burbs view from the furze
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Feb 26
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There are many things I wish I could write about. This is one of them.

There are many things I wish I could write about. This is one of them.

view from the burbs zen
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Feb 10
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view on the way to work this morning

view on the way to work this morning

view from the burbs
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Jan 21
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(wintertime)

(wintertime)

view from the burbs
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(summertime)

(summertime)

view from the burbs
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Jan 13
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cos sometimes there’s more to life than photosets
misty morning, dublin
january - cold (but not too cold), bright, and (today) utterly peaceful

cos sometimes there’s more to life than photosets

misty morning, dublin

january - cold (but not too cold), bright, and (today) utterly peaceful

view from the burbs winter
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Jan 08
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you can see my house from here

you can see my house from here

dublin view from the burbs
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