Funky Links #1
Sometimes, believe it or not, I don’t want to talk. Luckily on the web you don’t have to - you can just link.
Some people will thank you for it, and others left out will scream their importance at you. But ultimately it’s all organic, sometimes Irish, and sometimes funky.
Before beginning, kudos to Damien.
• Up Helly Aa photos of Shetland’s Viking fire festival
• Tommy Tiernan has some thoughts on Irish Trad
• Surfing in Ireland in winter
• Oliver James talks PsychoGeography to Will Self: The best definition of Ireland is, in fact, a definition of Russia: ‘Imagine the Irish with an empire.’
• 1,533 bands now on Irish-Showbands.com
• Compared to Japan’s incredibly low 1.26 babies per woman, it is a veritable baby boom, but even within Europe the French birth rate is only exceeded by the Irish
• Maps of ancestry in the US: Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and ah, heck, German. Or knock yourself out with everybody
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