Monthly Archives: February 2012

Diarmaid Keane writes:

As you are aware, there is heated debate at the moment about the SOPA and PIPA bills in the U.S. and the possible introduction of similar legislation in Ireland. U.S. Embassy Dublin along with the Bureau of International Information Programs has organized an online debate on the subject of internet freedom and online piracy. The two speakers, Corynne McSherry and Richard Bennet both have in depth knowledge and experience on this subject and will be willing to answer any questions asked during the webcast.

 

 

Can you spot the real Michael Squee poetry among Ewok’s five minute doggerel?

Without using Google.

A)

And when the strangers
To whom I gave a lift
Spoke to me of the extraordinary
Light in the Western sky;
I often missed its changes.
And, later, when words were required
To intervene at the opening of Art Exhibitions,
It was not the same.

 

 

B)

He gathered himself
As he had done as a boy
And spoke
Between the clang of the hammer
Amid the sparks
A guileless, wordless question
To his mind anvil-solid.

 

C)

There was an old woman from Nantucket
She lived modestly
As she had originally come from Cloonrane.

 

Lines close at 3pm.

5.15pm UPDATE: B) and C) are the work of parody. A) is from Squee’s poem When Will The Time Come.

Earlier: ‘Lame Stale, Stilted.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSe6g4zIlTE

The Break Up – Leiko, Woody & Siyo.

Bop bop.

Alan Newman writes:

I’m from the Hip Hop group The Animators. Myself and one of the other Animators, Leiko, teamed up with local MC Siyo & Singer Woody to piece a short music video about a break up together. We were wondering if your readers would have feedback for it? It’s shot in Eddie Rockets, Flannery’s, Camden Street and random houses around Dublin.

February 10, 1967.

From the National Library of Ireland:

Mallow North Junction, Co. Cork .This includes some random birds perching on the telegraph pole, and I think one in the bare branches of a tree. Oddly enough, it’s very rare to spot birds in our photos.

Plopped this one down on the train station in Mallow pro tem, so if anyone knows exact co-ordinates for Mallow North Junction, you know what to do!

 

The National Library of Ireland Flickr Stream