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3 ResponsesThe Slate, remembered
The last time I was in The Bernard Shaw (ooh, good blog segue there, but only if you read each post as it’s posted…) there they were running a Slate retrospective. It was surreal to see all those classic pages again. I wanted to remember more, so I went off looking in the internet archive wayback machine for entries for www.theslate.ie. Then I hit jackpot when I did a search for ‘blacks in the jacks’ on google. One for the road, an awe-inspiring blogger, has tirelessly scanned in the old copies of The Slate that he has for all of us to enjoy once again. He doesn’t have them all, not by a long shot, but it’s a great way to reminisce.
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Fantastic - one of the greatest regrets of my life is throwing away each Slate when I finished them, like they were a Shoot or a Beano. The collected works of The Slate is up there with Portrait of The Artist, Gulliver’s Travels and Circle of Friends when it comes to Irish lit.
I actually ran out of steam there a while ago it was such a pain in the hole scanning, resizing, emailing and posting - i’ve 3 more to put up, which I will at some stage this weekend, inclding the final edition.
OFTR: Absolute legend!