Monthly Archives: August 2012

 

From the Great War Archive, University of Oxford: a photograph of a wooden board with pinned paper message: ‘Irishmen! Heavy uproar in Ireland, english guns are firing at your wives and children | 1st May 1916’.

Peter Carolan, who donated the photo, writes:

“The history of the photo is that it was given to my granddad by a Major Hand in the 1930s. My granddad was working for the Major (a retired British Army Officer) as a gardener in Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny.

The Germans knew that the trench in front of them was occupied by a Irish Regiment, and put the sign up to tell them what was going on back home in Ireland, the Major told my Granddad that they fired a few rounds at the sign and did not believe or understand what the sign was about till weeks later when the news filtered through about the 1916 rising back home in Ireland.

The Major took the photo, after the British had captured the German trench a month later.”

 

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

But…

Ciara Baker writes:

My Dog Lily has gone missing and I am heartbroken without her. I have been looking everywhere and contacting every vet, pound, kennel and dog rescue charity. She disappeared from Londonbridge road in the Ringsend [Dublin 4] area early on Saturday morning [August 4] and we think she followed someone walking towards Grand Canal street. She is a border collie mix, medium in size and black and white in color and wearing a pink and black collar with a bone-shaped disc on it with my phone number [an 087 number]. A reward is being offered for her safe return. She is very very loved.


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aMAZEme – a labyrinth of 250,000 remaindered, used and new books (most on loan from Oxfam) designed by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya, Gualter Pupo (and built by over fifty volunteers) at Southbank Centre.

The 500 square metre maze (some sections standing 2.5 metres high) is based on the fingerprint of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and will be on display as part of the London 2012 Festival until August 25th.

colossal

Sadly not yet in production.

But you can own the art.

Gav Beattie writes:

This print is aimed primarily at the fact that schools in Ireland, both national and secondary, are still legally allowed to have discriminatory admissions policies in place. These policies grant places to children based firstly on religious denomination, practical factors such as living in the catchment area come further on down the list. Two colour, A4 (12″ x 8.5″) his or hers screenprint on 250gsm cream Cartalina card – edition of 55 signed, numbered and stamped.

 

Available here