The Liffey Boulevard

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CustomHouseCustom2Custom3From top: Custom House, Bachelor’s Walk and the view from O’Connell Bridge looking south towards D’Olier and Westmoreland Streets.

A new study by urban designers and planners David Jordan and Fergus Browne  which sees the Liffey Quays transformed into a boulevard linking the Phoenix Park to Dublin Bay and includes a proposal to transform the Custom House into a Civic Museum for Dublin along with the creation of a pedestrian plaza fronting it.

 

21st Century Liffey

Would You Go To Live Music On A Sunday Afternoon?

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Pub_StagsHeadThe Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin

Sunday night home of Stag’s Head Raw (upstairs)

Barry writes:

We are thinking of extending the idea and putting on gigs during the day also. Those of you old enough to remember the 1980s will probably thinks back fondly to Sunday aternoons whiled away in boozers all over Dublin supping pints while listening to the ‘next big thing’. So the question is; Would YOU go to a gig on a Sunday afternoon?

Anyone?

Meanwhile:

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Conor Deasy’s Biggles Flys Again (this is their choon ‘Friends) play the Stag’s Head Raw on Sunday with support from Dott and I Have A Friend.

€8. 8pm.

Biggles Flys Again

Big On Detail

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Australian sculptor and former puppeteer (on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth) Ron Mueck spends hundreds of hours perfecting the fine details of his hyper realistic pieces, rendering them identical in appearance to the human form in virtually all respects but  one – scale.

Mueck’s disconcertingly intimate figures are either oversized (as in Couple Under an Umbrella, above) or miniaturised.

In April, Muesck unveiled three new works at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. The exhibition runs until the end of September.

(Photos: Thomas Salva courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.)

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