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# Four, four, four, four
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/four-four-four-four/
- Published: 2006-02-10T00:10:26.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:58:04.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Misc

Well, teetering beween a liking for lists and a po-faced disinclination to be frivolous I am leaning to lists. In response to the [FreeRangeLibrarian](https://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/02/02/the-meme-of-four/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) … here is a tentative enumeration of things in fours.  
**4 novels for re-reading**

- *Persuasion* – Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion are the favourite novels of real JA fans, he claimed 😉
- *[The Volunteers](https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/4833360?ref=lorcandempsey.net)* – Raymond Williams
- *The Leopard* – Giuseppe di Lampedusa
- *The heather blazing* – [Colm Toibin](https://www.colmtoibin.com/biography/index.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**4 films for re-viewing**

The Sunshine State 
- [Gumshoe](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6302874564/102-3261064-3309700?v=glance&n=404272&ref=lorcandempsey.net) (Marvellous [Billie Whitelaw](https://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/489152/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) and Albert Finney in a film with the tagline “the sleuth, the whole sleuth and nothing but the sleuth”)
I went down 
- Atlantic City ([David Thomson](https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/0233988599?ref=lorcandempsey.net) on Burt Lancaster: “He is one of the great stars. Maybe the last.”)

**4 songs**

  - *In the garden* – Van Morrison
  - *Bonny light horseman* – Dolores Keane and John Faulkner
  - *Since Maggy went away* – John Kavanagh/Paul Brady
  - *The Lakes of Pontchartrain* – Paul Brady (I was listening to this again after Hurricane Katrina)

**4 covers**

  - *One* – Cowboy Junkies (U2)
  - *Tupelo Honey* – Cassandra Wilson (Van Morrison)
  - *~~Cypress Avenue~~ Madam George* – Energy Orchard (Van Morrison)
  - *I’m so lonesome I could cry* – Cowboy Junkies (Hank Williams)

**4 books that have changed the way I look at work**

  - *The rise of the network society* – Manuel Castells (a loose baggy monster)
  - *The consequences of modernity* – Anthony Giddens
  - *A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts 1850-1914* – Alistair Black
  - *Community, collaboration, and collections: the writings of Ross Atkinson.* (I have only just got this but have found Atkinson the most consistently interesting writer about libraries over the last few years.)

**4 places I have lived**

  - Grew up in [Templeogue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/templeogue?ref=lorcandempsey.net), Dublin, Ireland
  - Lived for many years in [Southville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/southville?ref=lorcandempsey.net) in Bristol, England, where our children were born
  - Lived for a while in [Camberwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/camberwell?ref=lorcandempsey.net) in wonderful South East London
  - Now live in [Clintonville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clintonville?ref=lorcandempsey.net), Columbus, USA

**4 places to eat (with children)**

  - Pizza Express – a reliable UK chain (when we were moving to London we knew that we could not afford to live anywhere with Pizza Express or Starbucks 😉
  - The Starliner Diner, Hilliard, Ohio
  - La Cafe Provencale, Herne Hill, London
  - The Avoca Woollen Mills, Avoca, Ireland

**4 jobs I have had**

  - Eight months as a factory worker in Kontinental Gummiwerke, Korbach, Germany. Interesting experience as a ‘gastarbeiter’.
  - Neary four years as a library assistant in (what is now) Dublin City Public Libraries. Stumbled into libraries in my mid twenties and stayed.
  - Moved to England to work as Research Officer, Centre for Bibliographic Management, University of Bath.
  - Director, DNER, JISC, London.

**4 television programs**

  - The Rockford Files (Reviewing the volume of James Garner’s television output, [David Thomson](https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/0233988599?ref=lorcandempsey.net) says: “That is the equivalent of well over one hundred movies – and if any actor could claim one hundred movies made with the wit, narrative speed, and good-natured ease of Maverick and Rockford Files he would be … Cary Grant?”)
  - As time goes by
  - [Tutti Frutti](https://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/789683/index.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
  - [Later – with Jools Holland](https://www.bbc.co.uk/later/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**4 websites visited daily**

  - [The Guardian](https://www.guardian.co.uk/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
  - The BBC
  - Digg
  - Technorati

I’ll have to think about passing it on … Oh why not?….: [Weibel lines](https://weibel-lines.typepad.com/weibelines/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Dilettante’s Ball](https://dilettantes.code4lib.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Merilee](https://hangingtogether.org/?page%5Fid=10&ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Qu�dam cuiusdam](https://www.wallandbinkley.com/quaedam/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).