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  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 13

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 13
    Jan 30 2026
    Let’s hope that Armageddon is always scheduled for mañana. As Anonymous puts it, dispelling the gloom of this post, let this be the November you always remember. The November you chose to believe there was more to your future than you were able to see. More
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    27 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 12

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 12
    Jan 29 2026
    One of my favourite songs from this source was The Castle of Dromore. The words of the song were written by Sir Harold Boulton to a traditional tune, My Wife is Sick, lulling a child to sleep with a prayer for safety against the wild weather and "Clan Eoin's wild Banshee." More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 11

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 11
    Jan 28 2026
    The chord sequence for Blue Moon is one I learned when first I picked up a guitar in my mid-teens. It is known as the doo- wop progression and Blue Moon is the first popular song to utilise it according to some sources. More
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    15 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 10

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 10
    Jan 27 2026
    There is a present scientific conceit gaining ground that we are living in a vast simulation. Our seemingly authentic lives governed by our own free will- just a façade as flimsy as the setting of the song. Seems to me that such an alien technology just might as well be called God and be done with it! More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 9

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 9
    Jan 26 2026
    The next song is, arguably, the most overplayed, over sung, over loved and over hated of any Irish ballad. Its antecedents are not entirely Irish- I have even read somewhere that it has Korean origins- but let’s not go down that particular rabbit hole. I speak, of course, of Danny Boy.More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 8

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 8
    Jan 23 2026
    In my youth, beguiled by whimsical notions of the dark Romantic imagination, I would have chosen the eldritch Selkie tale; now, unquestionably, I would choose the quotidian world of Margaret and the Dutchman she loves. More
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    19 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 7

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 7
    Jan 22 2026
    Some say, Such Is Life, were the final words of Ned Kelly as he stood on the scaffold of Melbourne Gaol. In fact, his final words were Ah Well, I suppose…which his detractors use to claim that he was just mumbling incoherently at the end. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, Ah Well, in the mouths of Irish people has the same plangency as Virgil’s sunt lacrimae rerum- there are tears at the heart of things.More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 6

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 6
    Jan 21 2026
    Don’t look back in humiliation or disappointment or with a sense of failure. Don’t look back at all is probably too extreme a prescription- but don’t look back if all it’s going to do is leave welts on your soul. More
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    16 m