writer (books & blog), minister (Fitzroy), music fan, Man City fan, theo-musicologist, MBE for dabbling in peace building and organising 4 Corners Festival...
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starting NOW on RTE 1...
ANDY ROWEN OF BAD & RAISED BY WOLVES - Tonight on RTE 1 at 9.30 BAD; THE SONG THAT SAVED MY LIFE will tell the Andy Rowen story. Here's my version... People ask me, when you met Bono what did you talk about? This!
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ANDY ROWEN OF BAD & RAISED BY WOLVES - Tonight on RTE 1 at 9.30 BAD; THE SONG THAT SAVED MY LIFE will tell the Andy Rowen story. Here's my version... People ask me, when you met Bono what did you talk about? This!
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Jun 14
Mick Flannery more creative songwriting imagination from our wee island... it's brilliant.
Jun 12
MICK FLANNERY - THE HOUSE MUST WIN - Just when I thought Ireland's creative imagination must be all used up Mick Flannery drops a musical sound track and blows my socks off... had Tom Waits been brought up in the west of Ireland... open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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Jun 14
my Surmise on the Street Riots (first posted on Wed...)
Jun 10
my take... at times angry... on our Belfast street riots...
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Jun 14
POUR OUT THE CUP - It was Communion this morning in Fitzroy... I like to think of it as society transforming...
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Jun 13
SURMISE ON THE FIRST TRILLIONAIRE - I don't believe greatness is about accumulating Trillions as about denying self as a servant to those in need... I Surmise...
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Jun 12
MICK FLANNERY - THE HOUSE MUST WIN - Just when I thought Ireland's creative imagination must be all used up Mick Flannery drops a musical sound track and blows my socks off... had Tom Waits been brought up in the west of Ireland... open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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Steve Stockman retweeted
A statement on behalf of the Directors of the 4 Corners Festival.
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Jun 11
PRIDE... GOD RAGES AGAINST. - Amos spells out a place where complacency, arrogance, self indulgence and pride run riot... easy to point fingers across the sea but here at home...
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Jun 10
my take... at times angry... on our Belfast street riots...
Jun 10
SURMISING LAST NIGHT'S RIOTS - Forgive me if this surmise gets a little angry but last night's riots, thuggery and intimidation needs called out... open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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SURMISING LAST NIGHT'S RIOTS - Forgive me if this surmise gets a little angry but last night's riots, thuggery and intimidation needs called out... open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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Jun 10
my prayer for Belfast, last night... probably out of date already... rend the heavens and come down Lord...
Jun 9
PRAYERS FOR BELFAST - As a response to the brutality of last night's attack and the fear of violence on the streets... a spluttering prayer...
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PRAYERS FOR BELFAST - As a response to the brutality of last night's attack and the fear of violence on the streets... a spluttering prayer...
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Jun 8
THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER - A tribute to good wedding photographers who capture things that the rest of us do not see... as we look at Caitlin and Clark's I am amazed at how much more than clicking a photographer sees...
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Jun 8
the story of the Creation of a festival... my script...
Jun 7
THE STORY OF THE CREATION OF A FESTIVAL - at Fitzroy's storytelling event Fabula I told the story of how I leaned about creation by helping create a Festival... here it is...
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Jun 7
THE STORY OF THE CREATION OF A FESTIVAL - at Fitzroy's storytelling event Fabula I told the story of how I leaned about creation by helping create a Festival... here it is...
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Jun 5
EYE OF THE SUNSET - questions of why were are here... to a pastoral benediction... my most used poem ever... written in 1990 after seeing Dance With Wolves... I might even dare to call inspired...
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Jun 4
JUNE 4, TIANANMEN SQUARE - June 4, I always remember Chinese Students on Tiananmen Square in 1989... I was there just over a year later, pondering while listening to Bruce Cockburn's Waiting On a Miracle... open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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Jun 4
GRATEFULNESS TO GLENN JORDAN ON THE DAY WE REMEMBER HIM - So many of lost a friend when Glenn Jordan died, this day in 2020. Here's my most special moment with him, among many other... ever grateful my friend... open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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Jun 3
Paul McCartney hits the spot at 84... his best since Flaming Pie... imaginative, nostalgic, quite brilliant!
Jun 2
SUE DIVIN - RUNAWAY ROAD - Sue Divin's third novel is another page turner, as young Ezra runs for the coastline of Inishowen to flee the consequences of what he has done... where's grace! For Young Adults AND Adults too. READ! open.substack.com/pub/sstock…
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