Sandycove, Co Dublin this evening.
Thanks Stephen Devine
Yearly Archives: 2013
Happy Christmas from all at Pavee Point. :) pic.twitter.com/SkWSW0BoNI
— Pavee Point (@PaveePoint) December 17, 2013
A new poem for a ‘new era’ by Kevin Barrington (above).
The Irish Times
Of Friday November 15th
Just told me
Over Annaghmakerrig tea
We’ll be sovereign again
Sovereign again
So I took to the bike
Without precaution
Or credit
And I took to the hills
Where houses were boarded
Dogs barking
And pubs all closed
Village after village
Pubs were all closed.
And finally in Cootehill
In the county of Cavan
I sat for a pint
Where Charlie the taxi-man
Leaned forward
And said
A fierce amount had taken to the rope
Taken to the rope
Taken to the rope
Dangling from
troika trees
And yet others had gone to the bottom of
Many the lake
Many the lake
Many the lake
So I swallowed my pint
Got back on my bike
Looked up the trees
Stared down the lakes
And cried out
At the top of my voice
Time after time after time again
For God’s sake come back
Please Lord just come back
Do you all not know
We’ll be sovereign again
Sovereign again
Get the fuck up
And out of those graves
We’ll be …
Sovereign Once Again
Kevin Barrington
Previously: `You May Like This
Picture: Conor McCabe via Dalkey Book Festival
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Patrick Conboy, Iain Henderson, Garrett Rowe, Enda Bolger, Padraig Glynn and Joe Donnellly.
Post-Modern
at
Off Henry Street, Dublin.
Annebix writes:
French postman a long way from home….
Damn cheese-eating surrender hipsters.
STELLA!
at
The Stella cinema, Rathmines, Dublin.
Now Showing: Gone With The Wind (1939)
Emily writes:
Before and after storm. It blew off the letters.
The gale or something else entirely.
We may never know.
Pics by Jim O’Callaghan
Update:
Jim O’Callaghan has located what may be the last surviving section of Stella lettering. A bit off the ‘A’ if we’re not mistaken. More as we get it.
UK based artist Jessica Harrison’s ‘handheld’ series of miniature furniture, covered in material made from casts of her own skin and accessorised with tufts of hair.
…seeking to consider the relationship between interior and exterior spaces of the body. harrison re-imagines corporal components through a sculptural practice, offering an alternative way of thinking about our physical form.
Yeesh.
Too Soon?
at
Or not soon enough?
JC’s supermarket, Swords Shopping Centre, Swords, Co Dublin, minutes ago.
Thanks Michael Brett
Dunnes Stores has been accused of clamping the cars of its own workers and fining them €50 every time. The decision has been taken at the retail giant’s Newbridge store in Co Kildare, according to trade union Mandate. It’s understood that staff had been able to use the car park previously but a decision was taken recently to withdraw the facility.
Outspan, anyone?
Google Street View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQYvrhuQ3Q
For your consideration.
A stark short with decent Irish spoken verse.
By the The Inner Circle Collective.
Who say:
In the North Dublin suburbs, familial and interpersonal pressures resonate not just through domestic, social and communal lives; but also through generations. “But I Married Your Ma Instead” looks at how the regularity and painful dissolution of marriage and family life is ingrained in every function of working class existence.