Yearly Archives: 2013

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Earlier: A Flurry Of Retrospective Notes.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Screen Shot 2013-04-10 at 14.30.09centraOne year’s experience?

Hang on.

Squid Limerick writes:

BWG Foods blatant in using #jobbridge to find experienced staff, even posting it on jobbridge.ie

 

BWG Foods (MACE, Spar, etc).

€1.7 billion in sales annually.

Cash And Carry General Operative (JobBridge)

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The ‘Brandy Hole’ tunnel, Bray Head, Co Wicklow

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Formerly part of an immensely deep cavern open to the sea at the front and connected to the ground above by a complicated network of secret passages, into which smuggling vessels could sail and unload their contraband.
The smuggling trade was a key source of income for 18th century Bray residents – the occasional skirmish aside, their activities went largely ignored by the Revenue, possibly due to bribes.
The most successful smugglers were a mother and daughter team who lived in a cottage beside the Head. Of considerable enterprise and determination, and always heavily armed, they amassed sufficient fortune from their operations to retire on the profits…

Great times.

Pic: Robert Ffrench, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland

Screen Shot 2013-04-10 at 13.41.00The Central Bank of Ireland ‘s new 10 Euro coin in honour of James Joyce launched at Newman House, Dublin, this morning.

Includes a passage from Chapter 3 of Ulysses

Designed by Mary Gregoriy, she of the Navigator in Cobh, Co Cork.

Update: Joyce-us

Pic Jason Clarke

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An award-winning short from Evan Viera – inspired by his own father’s struggle with schizoaffective disorder – featuring a young girl who escapes into a dream world to escape her psychosis.

An exploration of two worlds – one medicated, the other unmedicated: powerful, affecting, beautifully rendered stuff.

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