Monthly Archives: September 2012

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They’re removing the spirit of Royston Brady

Minutes ago .

A ceremony hosted, by Lord Mayor Naoise Ó Muirí, recalling the help the Choctaw nation gave to the Irish in 1847.

From The Irish American Newsletter:

Moved by news of the starvation in Ireland, a group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Oklahoma to raise a relief fund. Despite their meager resources, they collected $170 and forwarded it to a U.S. famine relief organization. It was both the most unlikely and the most generous contribution to the effort to relieve Ireland’s suffering.

They also met the long fella.

Thanks Aaron McAllorum

Ossian Smyth writes:

The Blackrock Baths are being demolished by the council today (see above). They drove demolition equipment up the beach from Merrion Gates [Co Dublin] through a Special Area of Conservation and started work with no public consultation. Here‘s some lovely footage of the baths in the Summer of 1937. More innocent times.

 

Is Nama Operating The Wrecking Ball At Blackrock Baths? (Nama Winelake)

Pic Ossian Smyth

Nollaig – the owner/occupier of this masterfully constructed wooden trailer (currently in Kilkenny and headed toward Leitrim) sez:

I had wanted to build a house for a good few years but didn’t own a piece of land to build it on so it seemed an obvious choice to build a house on wheels.

Check out fascinating photo galleries of the construction and fit-out at Teach Nollaig’s Facebook page.

(Thanks Matt Finnucane)

When illustrator Marlin Peterson was commissioned by the Washington State Artist Trust to create a mural in the city recently, he chose the roof of the Seattle Center Armory (which can be viewed from the nearby Space Needle) and got to work on two huge trompe l’oeil daddy long-legs.

More pix and an explanation of Peterson’s process here.

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Get your Game of Thrones on.

Spirit Of Folk Festival Dunderry Park, Co Meath. The weekend after next.

Dean McMenamin writes:

The time has come for all the kingdoms to gather together FOR ONE BIG PARTY at Spirit of Folk 2012! Art by Dearbhla Kelly and Nicola Hyland, Animation by Nicola Hyland, Music by Bunoscionn.