Monthly Archives: June 2011
Seamus Heaney and the Ulysses medal, the highest honour UCD can bestow
Brian Friel, who was awarded the Ulysses Medal last year and poet John Montague
Heaney and fellow poet Ciaran Carson
This morning at Belfield for the awarding of the Ulysses Medal (Joyce studied at UCD) to Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.
Poetic champions pose.
As if drawn by Matt Groening.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
http://vimeo.com/27019462
Published just this week, Go the Fuck To Sleep by Adam Mansbach (a profanely affectionate bedtime book for children and parents who ‘live in the real world’) has been given a new and perfectly appropriate twist – an audiobook narration by Samuel L. Jackson.
He nails it.
Werner Herzog’s also done a version.
UPDATED: Listen to the whole thing here.
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It’s Molly Bloom’s soliloquy written on a single page by the frankly talented Annie West.
Here’s a close-up:
It’s literally a challenging read.
Annie West
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBKb3NId4U
TJ O’Grady writes:
“Myself and my co-director have just finished a music video for the German producer Tensnake. It is an Irish production where everyone worked for free. The video stars kids from Dublin Stage Coach where the principle Evan Holten Murray found us 30 wonderfully talented kids to realize this film (which was made on a shoestring budget)”
It’s already garnered over 50,000 hits on You Tube.
Is Raver Linn.
Directed By: Pondr; Produced by: Fiona Conlon-McKenna; Director of Photography: Piers McGrail; Editor: John O’Connor; Casting: Evan Holten Murray; Performed by: Dublin Stagecoach Kids; Shot in South William Bar
Looking up at just the right moment when cycling up Shaw Street into Pearse Street junction.
(Thanks Oisin)
David Norris with Minister for Arts JImme Deenihan this morning at the Joyce Centre, North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1.
With Dublin Lord Mayor Gerry Breen
With Stephen, Mary and 5 month old Bronwyn Boyd
And, for all you Molly fans:
Although Laura Lovejoy may be a ‘Gertie’.
Harder and harder to tell these days.
(Saso lazarov/Photocall Ireland)