Martin O Connor

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Librarian. Communications Coordinator at University College Cork Library. LAI / CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion 2021. Libfocus. Blackpool Sentinel. Shush! Sounds from UCC Library I'm here for Libraries, Music & anything else you fancy

L A calm coastal scene with rippling blue water at low tide. In the foreground, wet sand curves along the shoreline, and a small cluster of rocks rises from the shallow water. Seagulls float and skim across the surface. In the background, a long stone bridge with arches stretches across the water, with trees lining the far shore under a pale blue sky.
Photo of a book page from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, page 177. The passage reads 11 From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders  with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward  is to be controlled  by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool  is to be led  by the opportunists  who control the fool. To be led by a thief  is to offer up  your most precious treasures  to be stolen. To be led by a liar  is to ask  to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant  is to sell yourself  and those you love  into slavery.
Three people in historical or fantasy-style clothing wade through a shallow river, holding onto a rope for support. Trees and rocks line the riverbank in the background
A humorous Instagram post from the account “irishnostalgia” featuring a photo of an old-fashioned library card catalog—rows of wooden cabinets with hundreds of small drawers. Above the photo, bold text reads: “Who remembers the first search engine.” The caption adds, “…and after 15 minutes you find out that someone’s borrowed the source you were looking for! ..Come back next week!! 😭” The post is accompanied by hashtags related to books, libraries, and nostalgia.
A yellow sign reading - Danger, this road leads to Dublin
Image of back wheel of ebike with battery
Drawing of a man playing guitar. With hearts around the top of the image. And the words Be My Bloody Valentine.
A graphic drawing of a woman’s head. With the text above her reading:, no attempt was made to indoctrinate them with the ideology of the party. It was not desirable there proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations”
Two child cartoon characters sitting under a tree. One of them says to the other no problem is so big or complicated that it can't run away from
Open toasted cheese sandwich
Album cover of Discreet Music by Brian Eno with text be beneath: Brian Eno: Discreet Music (Obscure OBS 3, LP, UK, 1975) £75 “Honour thy mistake as a hidden intention” ran the motif on one of Eno & Peter Scmidt’s Oblique Strategy cards. Eno had played Fripp a backing track in advance of the “mobile unit”s live gigs at half speed. It sounded wonderful. Wind on water appeared on their Evening Star (1975, HELP 22, £30) A 30 minute version formed side 1 of Discreet Music pioneering Ambient Music.
A black cup with Cantona and number 7 in yellow written on it.
Cartoon drawing of two young boys standing beside a tiny Christmas tree.
Glounthaune Train station at night
A list of one to five of my most listened bands on Spotify 2024 1 Cocteau Twins 2 Mogwai 3 Godspeed you Black Emperor 4 Brian Eno 5 The Cure
View of country road with early morning orange sky.
The Quad, UCC campus lit up in green light at night.
Image of Record Collector Magazine article on Delia Derbyshire Archive
Image is a Graphic containing the list of songs played on Shush Episode 254 - In Memoriam 2023 Haunted – Shane McGowan and the Popes (with Sinead O’Connor) Jackie – Sinead O’Connor Sally McLennane – The Pogues Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses Party Fears Two – The Associates Drive the Cold Winter Away – The Horslips Circle – Edie Brickell and the Bohemians New World in the morning – Roger Whitaker J.P.R.I.P - Stars of the Lid Jacket Hangs – The Blue Aeroplanes Summer Babe – Pavement Cemetry Gates – The Smiths Barbarism begins at home – The Smiths Venus – Television Common People – Pulp La Femme Chinoise – Yellow Magic Orchestra
Red background, graphic of an owl, and the word Hootsuite
Group photograph of some of the delegates of the Radio Studies Conference.
Micheal Martin at a podium in UCC Library speaking. He is standing beside a screen with the image National Japanese Diet Library on it
Image of Einstein talking to Oppenheimer in front of a lake. The words 'What exactly did Einstein say to Oppenheimer' are written above the image. The words 'The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library' are written below the image
A house painted all in blue
John Robb in radio studio.
Yellow sunlight shining through a forest. With the words Head of Publishing, Cork University Press and the UCC Logo in the foreground