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		<title>The Pre-History of the Concept of &#8216;Attention&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2010/04/06/the-pre-history-of-the-concept-of-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8216;unpublished&#8217; doctoral dissertation, now available on Google Books &#8211; free of charge!

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		<title>In mourning</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2010/03/06/in-mourning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guilt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I daresay I won&#8217;t be able to complete this post without shedding a few tears; I&#8217;m already welling up, in fact. I&#8217;ve been away from my desk, and Dublin, since the wee hours Monday, March 1st, when I was awoken by the doorbell. My dear grandmother, confidante and friend, Laura Mc Mahon (neé Gargan), had <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2010/03/06/in-mourning/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My country, my call</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2010/02/19/my-country-my-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[your country your call]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Smart Tax Breaks
A significant part of our current wealth has been based on foreign direct investment (FDI) which was attracted by our low corporate tax rate. I propose that this be intelligently modified so as to not only attract, but develop, smart and sustainable enterprise and employment. I envisage this occurring in three main areas:
1. <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2010/02/19/my-country-my-call/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The round system</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/12/19/the-round-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonsense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It goes around, it comes around – always mentioned, poorly understood and seldom questioned. Now, for the first time in recorded history, Ireland’s greatest gift to the world is here set out in a simple, easy-to-read, tourist-proof formula.
Of course, primitive versions of this system exist in other parts of the world, but, suffice it to <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/12/19/the-round-system/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Romantic comedy</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/11/04/romantic-comedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcissism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sentimentality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spacefairy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Such is the richness of information technology these days that I just &#8217;stumbled upon&#8217; something on my computer, not 3 months old, written in my own hand, yet still somehow new to me! Time flies! Some gibberish I wrote about SpaceFairy.
And I had vowed, more-or-less, not to write poems about women anymore, because they are rarely <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/11/04/romantic-comedy/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A load of blogs</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/10/28/a-load-of-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[authentic self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not for the first time, I have started a new blog &#8211; my Facebook Research Blog. The idea with it will be a lot more specific than any I&#8217;ve started previously: rather than my inane ramblings about nothing in particular, it&#8217;ll be focussed solely on psychological research concerned with Facebook, of which there isn&#8217;t much, <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/10/28/a-load-of-blogs/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>In memoriam</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/10/12/in-memoriam/</link>
		<comments>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/10/12/in-memoriam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am never entirely sure what I should write in this thing, so forgive me if this seems inappropriate. For I would like to mark the passing, on Wednesday last, of my uncle.  At the age of sixty-seven, in his sleep, rather unexpectedly, practically on his birthday, and only days from meeting his daughter-in-law-to-be&#8217;s parents, <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/10/12/in-memoriam/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I had almost started to believe</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/31/i-had-almost-started-to-believe/</link>
		<comments>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/31/i-had-almost-started-to-believe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which isn&#8217;t true. I believed. I had believed. I still do believe! Eamon O’Brien took a small, under-rated team of nobodies, to the All-Ireland Semi-final. Not the summer I had imagined! And, with grim statistical precision, we lost. Kerry 2-8 Meath 1-7
The thing is, not that we lost, as predictably we did, but that I had <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/31/i-had-almost-started-to-believe/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>From now on you will know what I mean</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/28/from-now-on-you-will-know-what-i-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/28/from-now-on-you-will-know-what-i-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonsense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authentic self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hangover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hangover rating system]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really shouldn’t post this up on my internet, but … ah shur fuck it. For your information, I present my Hangover Rating System:
Hangover Star rating system:
1 star hangover *
- feel a small bit groggy, but can get up at the usual weekday hour and do a normal day&#8217;s work
- when people ask, you say <a href='http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/28/from-now-on-you-will-know-what-i-mean/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What I did on me holliers</title>
		<link>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/25/what-i-did-on-me-holliers/</link>
		<comments>http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/blog/2009/08/25/what-i-did-on-me-holliers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonsense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budapest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colum Mc Cann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danube]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This all seems so strange now, but here&#8217;s a poem I wrote exactly a month ago. A lot of water under the bridge since then, but as Colum Mc Cann said, &#8220;If you stand in the same river for too long, even the banks will trickle past you&#8221;.
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