Seriously?
H/T: Simon McGarr
Yearly Archives: 2014
Marsh’s Library in St Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8
Christa Thompson writes:
Just past the medieval graveyard at St.Patrick’s Cathedral stands a Gothic stone archway and hinged door marking the path of stairs to Marsh’s Library, the first public library in Ireland. As I opened the door to its gallery I was immediately transported back three hundred years. My eyes scanned the thick and dramatic oak shelves. The spines of antique books so textured with age seemed like something from a Harry Potter Movie as if it were only possible they existed had someone imagined them. There was something about this place that made me want to stay. Perhaps this is what kept Bram Stoker, reading books of travel and death. Records of his readings are kept in a ledger where I saw the hand scrawls of the likes of Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker and James Joyce.
Most every Dublin tourist knows of the famed Long Library at Trinity College, but few know of Marsh’s Library. In comparison, Marsh’s Library is merely a closet, but don’t let this fool you, it remains unchanged since its founding in 1638. It is home to 25,000 rare and extraordinary books with permanent residence on its original oak shelves.
The Dark Side of Dublin: the Haunting of Marsh’s Library (Fairytale Traveler)
Pic: Celtic Group Hostels
Tweetable 21st century corporate manifestos with fully resettable insanity levels by Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza.
Generate here.
Secondary school teachers are to hold a one-day strike on Tuesday 2 December in protest over proposed changes to the Junior Cycle
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) November 14, 2014
Secondary school teachers have agreed on a one day strike on December 2nd with a second date in January over reforms to Junior Cert
— Today FM News (@TodayFMNews) November 14, 2014
Teachers to strike on 2 December over Junior Cycle changes (RTÉ)
UPDATE:
Via Páraic Gallagher
UCD law lecturer Dr Liam Thornton tweets from the High Court as Judge Colm MacEochaidh delivers his judgement on the challenge taken by a family of two against the direct provision system.
The family of two, a mother and child, took the action, arguing that the direct provision system is unconstitutional.
The family have been in direct provision centres for more than four years. They claimed the system was unlawfully established, has no legal basis, continues to operate unlawfully, violating the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. They also claimed the work ban and blanket ban on receiving social welfare payments breaches personal, family and equality rights under the Constitution.
Background: Direct Provision System Challenged Before the Irish High Court: Day 1 (Human Rights in Ireland blog)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2co-ot8PTQ
The inevitable audiobook of Adam Mansbach’s You Have To F***ing Eat, narrated by Bryan Cranston and available free on Amazon.
You’ll recall how Samuel L Jackson did the last one.
Scenes in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford this morning where the River Slaney burst last night.
Yikes.
Enniscorthy hit by flooding again (New Ross Echo)
Pics: Brian Walsh (top two) and Damien Tiernan
Anne writes:
Fleet of cars parked on the pavement in front of the courthouse on Washington St., Cork.
Anyone?
Former Irish Independent journalist Gemma O’Doherty and former Garda John Wilson with representatives of families seeking justice for their dead relatives in Stormont Castle yesterday
UTV’s news report last night on how a group of families, accompanied by former Irish Independent journalist Gemma O’Doherty and former Garda John Wilson travelled to Stormont Castle yesterday to seek help in their attempts to get justice for deceased relatives.
The families feel gardaí did not carry out proper investigations into their cases.
They made the journey North to meet senior politicians because, despite attempts, they say they couldn’t get a meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
The group included Lucia O’Farrell, mother of hit-and-run victim Shane O’Farrell, who died in August 2011; Anne and Eamonn Tuohey, parents of Shane Tuohey, who died in Clara, Co Offaly in 2002; Cyril Goonan, brother of Jim Goonan, who was killed in Birr, Co Offaly in 2002; and Ann Doherty, twin sister of Mary Boyle (6) who went missing in Donegal in 1977. Brian Sheridan, a former Director of Elections for Fine Gael in Laois/Offaly and who has been campaigning for justice for murdered Fr Niall Molloy, also attended.
Sinn Féin have also created a video of the group’s meeting with Martin McGuinness here, which includes an interview with Gemma in which she talked about “a dangerous and close relationship” between certain sections of the media in the Republic of Ireland and the gardaí.
Previously: Northern Exposure
O’Sullivan urged to pull out of Garda commissioner race (Irish Times)