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30/11/25

Living heritage e.g. in Ireland (2025)

 

Creating a couple of heritage and cultural heritage playlists on Youtube tonight got me thinking so I put 

the below question into ChatGPT. Hmm...




15/11/25

Writing — DJP (2025)

 

I did Honours English and Honours Irish in school and studied Journalism in college for three years 

twenty years ago and only learned recently from ChatGPT of the difference between a hyphen and the 

two dashes! It's a small thing but to use them correctly can make your writing look more 

professional I think! I have started to use the en dash recently, I am yet to use the em dash, but I am not

going to be too rigid about using it because while I think using it often looks a bit more professional in 

some situations I think it looks a bit too much. I am only learning this though so don't quote me on the 

area. :)


The different dashes often don't display on Blogger like on the heading of this post.


👇


Update - I have just learned that although Blogger does not accept the en dash in post titles it does

publish the em dash in them. 😊


 (I have now updated the relevant post titles on this blog under a keyword search for my name here at

 Darren J. Prior – I am not going to change anymore but I might use the em dash in post  titles in general

on this blog going forward from now on).










Sarah Carey on schools in Ireland (November '25)

 



Sarah Carey: There is a rational debate to be had on a united Ireland, if we can rise above emotive tribalism - The Irish Independent (15 Nov '25)


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14/11/25

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Real quotes vs paraphrased quotes on the internet incl. Wikiquote (Wikimedia) — DJP (2025)

 

As a note I have started to check more before I post a quote from someone on this blog now. I 

have been doing so for years to some extent but I have started to do more now recently particularly 

with quotes from some people that are likely to often be paraphrased.


See below from my Facebook from last week to find out more what I mean.


Update –  I am often not going to research / ChatGPT research every quote I come across only 

sometimes so just be aware that many of the quotes on this blog from other people are paraphrases

and circulating the internet. I am not at this point 100% committed to know if such and such a person 

really said such and such a thing although I am interested in knowing this sometimes with a small 

number of the people I follow (2026)




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Video location tags on Youtube — DJP (2025)


I posted this below post on my Facebook a couple of weeks ago but just in case I forget about it / them 

(the video location tags) again I am posting here on my blog for record or reference.




Update – What do I mean by video location tags as opposed to the "Tags" boxes and hashtags 

inserted on video titles and descriptions? For those of you not very au fait with some of 

the smaller sides of Youtube see the location tag (or rather "video location" tag) of Dublin Castle from 

this screenshot of the name and some of  the description of an upload of mine as an example of what 

and where on the video / upload I am talking about. :)




Care in a Changing World - Social Justice Ireland Conference - Near FM (November 2025)




Susanne Rogers, Social Justice Ireland