Brendan Boyle
@BrendyBoyle
All things Spain. http://brendyboyle.substack.com
🇪🇸La Comunidad weekend podcast🎙️ 🖼️A beginners guide to Spain’s most important cultural institution: the Prado Museum for beginners. I had a great chat with @lukestegemann, cultural historian and author of Madrid, A New Biography. Enjoy, share, gracias!
Two things we don’t miss down in Kerry: funerals and all Ireland finals.
They say football is life and death in Kerry: No death notices in on Radio Kerry this morning. It can happen but very very rarely #upthekingdom
‘All-inclusive’ - von der Leyen trying to sell the 15% tariffs like it’s a package holiday.
Together, the EU and the US are a market of 800 million people. And nearly 44 percent of global GDP. It’s the biggest trade deal ever ↓
"In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth they get... nothing. I'm not even exaggerating, that IS the deal: the EU gets nothing."
If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth), they should be beyond appalled by this "deal": bbc.com/news/articles/… It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal…
“But in Clifford’s extraordinary career, this may have been his most complete performance. It was a towering monument to patience and cunning and stunning execution. Everything was measured and timed.” Gaelic Football’s Messi. irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-g…
“There have been six double-digits victories in the past 50 years of deciders – five of them have been Kerry’s. Somewhere in their race memory is the number one rule of finals – when you have the other crowd where you want them, bury them.” irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-g…
Game Set & Match to Trump on trade it looks like. Argued on pod, the EU's weakness was various countries had different trade agendas/links with US. Yanks exploited this fragility & won the day. Commission not strong enough, so folded. Relief for Ireland! podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/why…
🇪🇸La Comunidad weekend podcast🎙️ If you’re wise enough to wait until autumn to visit Madrid, here’s a guide to Spain’s most important cultural institution: the Prado Museum with @lukestegemann, cultural historian and author of Madrid, A New Biography. Enjoy, share, gracias!
Domingo 🇪🇸 🍀Good luck @Kerry_Official today in the All Ireland Final🍀
The longing, the desire, the love that dare not speak its name of the British media for Vox to be in power in Spain. They so desperately want to run through their tropes of Spain as a not quite all there democracy in contrast to their dreary mother of parliaments shtick. What…
Shaken by a corruption scandal, Spain’s prime minister is now at the mercy of events and of his fickle allies economist.com/europe/2025/07…
🗞️#Portada | “¿Por qué nos matan de hambre?”; Sánchez fía su supervivencia política al impulso de la agenda social en septiembre; Una generación de oro ante la gran cima de la Eurocopa, en EL PAÍS este domingo 27 de julio 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ppbxczy
🇪🇸3.45 million people visited Madrid’s Prado Museum in 2024 - I sat down with historian @lukestegemann to talk about its origins and how it’s become Spain’s most important cultural institution. Listen to the podcast here for free ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/brendyboyl…
It was a tremendous pleasure to chat once again with Brendan, this time discussing the wonder that is @museodelprado - its origins, its history, its survival, its highlights, and its massive embrace of digitisation and social media.
🇪🇸La Comunidad weekend podcast🎙️ 🖼️A beginners guide to Spain’s most important cultural institution: the Prado Museum for beginners. I had a great chat with @lukestegemann, cultural historian and author of Madrid, A New Biography. Enjoy, share, gracias!
Stop the boats, say a few Coruñés fisherman at the harbour trying to catch a few summer mackerel on the evening tide.
