Yearly Archives: 2013

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(From top: Weeping Ulcer, Dublin; Primordial from Skerries, Co Dublin; Galway’s Weed Priest; and cover artwork from Prophecy Within, a prog-metal band from Cork)

JB writes:

“I am surprised Broadsheet continues to ignore one of the biggest and the best music scenes in the country. I speak of METAL be it doom, gloom, trash or prog. Sort it out.

 

Apologies.

For those bands currently ‘active’ and trading under the genre METAL in Ireland we salute you.

A Distant Sun
Acidtone
Altar Of Plagues
Altruism
Arise the Fallen
Atominated
Bloody Kisses
Broken Remnants
Castero
Celtachor
Celtic Legacy
Chosen
Cruachan
Dead Aeon
Dead Label
Dead Til Friday
Death of a Salesman
Dichotomy
Electric Taurus
Enemy Logic
Eternal Helcaraxe
Fatality
Fireland
Five Will Die
For Ruin
ForChristSake
Gama Bomb
Gargantuan
Gate XIII
Geasa
Glyder
Mass Extinction
Mcgalligog
Mourning Beloveth
Murdock
Mutilated Messiah
Primarkial
Primordial
Prophecy Within
Red Enemy
Scald
Selene
Sinocence
Slidhr
Slomatics
Steel Tormentor
Stormzone
Syphor
The Answer
The Eruptors
Three Hour Ceasefire
Trucker Diablo
Twisted Wrath
Uaigneas
Weed Priest
Weeping Ulcer
Xerosun

*horn sign*

Irish Metal Bands (metalUnderground.com)

crickets

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Composer Jim Wilson’s recording of the sound of crickets slowed down to reveal what sounds like an angelic choir.

Although it’s not quite as mind-blowing as purported (not every sound you hear is made by the crickets themselves) it’s still pretty impressive and for the most part, absolutely genuine..

You can buy the album here.

truthseekerdaily

(H/T: Joanna)

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(The Journey of Light memorial design)

Terry writes:

Following the decision to reject the memorial to abuse victims at the Garden of Remembrance because it overlaps with a memorial to the struggle for Irish ‘freedom’ it would be a shame to waste a beautifully designed tribute.

How about putting it up at a church-owned property.  Maynooth perhaps?

An Bord Pleanála rejects abuse memorial project (RTE)

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(Enda Kenny with Joe Mulholland, founder of the McGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal in 2011.)

While announcing that the papers presented at the 2013 MacGill Summer School are now available to read online, the school’s founder Joe Mulholland has written a blog post for politicalreform.ie.

He writes:

“For several years now, and especially since the sudden and brutal fall of the Celtic Tiger, the MacGill School has focussed on reform of the institutions of the state – political, social and economic. With webcasting and the sterling work of our colleagues in broadcasting and the press, this message goes far beyond the conference hall. As has been pointed out many times at MacGill, radical reform of our politics and governance in general has to be a priority if we are not to have recurring crises of the kind we are living painfully through at this time and it has to come from the bottom up.”

“Of course, other European countries are also in deep crisis but we appear to have had nothing but crises since the foundation of the state and have only once been able to offer our citizens the fundamental right of a job in their own country and that was in the first decade of the 21st century. We blew it by having people in authority in various sectors who were, to say the least, negligent and incompetent – and unaccountable.“

And yet.

 

Previously: Blessed Are The Whistleblowers

Looking to 2016 – How stands the Republic? (The Irish Politics Forum)

Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland