A-here.
Kentstown, Co Meath this afternoon.
Thanks Adrian O’Sullivan
Yearly Archives: 2014
At the hometown of Sinead O’Connor, The Thrills, the Boomtown Rats, The Fountainhead, Nine Out Of Ten Cats and the ex-drummer from The Frames.
The Dún Laoghaire [Co Dublin] Music Weekend.
THIRTY Acts including Wheatus, Le Galaxie and the Dublin City Rounders in Thirteen venues.
Any excuse
From left: Sculptor Richard Enda King, Councillor Seán Walsh and Pádraig Flynn
On this day in 1989, Minister for the Environment Pádraig Flynn unveiled a new sculpture ‘Spirit of The Air’ to be installed at Dublin Airport.
1989 was the same year developer Tom Gilmartin wrote a cheque for £50,000 as a donation to Fianna Fáil as suggested by Pádraig Flynn. The cheque never made it to Fianna Fáil HQ and was subsequently discovered by the Mahon tribunal that it was used to buy a 100-acre farm in north Mayo by Mr Flynn’s wife, Dorothy.
He was then made our European Commissioner.
Good times.
Watch here.
Previously: ‘They’ll Emerge Unscathed And Unsullied’
Pee Flynn: “Wrongly And Corruptly” Sought Donation From Tom Gilmartin
Pro Choice?
at
‘sup?
Jamie Thunder Kelly writes:
“Got this campaign card in the post today. It’s for the Dublin South West by-election. Can’t find anything about the candidate online. Is it just me, or is he anti-divorce? Thanks.”
Anyone?
This morning.
President Higgins and Sabina Higgins at the opening of the Irish Refugee Council and Migrant Rights Centre’s new offices at 37 Dame Street, Dublin this morning.
All welcome.
Related: Ask A Broadsheet Reader
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Gravitas
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The standpipes of New York City – a print by Pop Chart Labs.
Story Spud?
at
Temple Bar, Dublin
PaddyMacwack writes:
“Giving out FREE bags of spuds this lunchtime…”
This is the best National Potato Day EVER.
Earlier: Do You Love Potatoes?
Constance Markievicz (above) and Roy Foster’s Vivid Faces
A taste for unorthodox night manoeuvres.
With boy scouts.
Apparently.
“[R]evolutionary Ireland was an important location for the ‘theatre of revolt’, in a literal sense. But one central aspect of that revolt more or less absent from the drama written and acted by the future revolutionaries concerns the world of sex… The revolutionaries were part of a generation which explored other forms of liberation besides the political and national… One of the attractions of the Gaelic League,especially its summer schools and ceilidhe, was the opportunities it provided for romantic and sexual contact… Constance Markievicz, with her hard-drinking and erratic Polish husband, may have been allowed a similar licence (Bulmer Hobson later told his son Declan of his surprise when she demanded to warm herself, on night manoeuvres with her Fianna boy scouts, by getting into bed with them)…”
From Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by Roy Foster (Penguin Books) published this week.
*thud*
Also: FIGHT!
Pic: National Library of Ireland
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
Today is Paint It Pink day.
Jeanne Sutton at Image.ie writes:
“An infographic we prepped for #paintitpink with the facts and figures about breast cancer in Ireland….”
34,798.
Breast Cancer in Ireland: The Facts (Image.ie)
Related: A clever online campaign by the US Breast Cancer Foundation for October Breast Awareness month.
The Lingo logo (top) and the spoken word line-up, from left: Roger Hudson, Karl Parkinson, Kalle Ryan (organiser), Fergus Costello, Phil Lynch (organiser), Genevieve Healy, John Cummins (Lingo Poet Laureate), Ailish Kerr, Stephen Clare, Alicia Byrne Keane, Andre K’Por, Paul Timoney, John Moynes (‘most-read living poet in Ireland’), Erin Fornoff (organiser), Stephen James Smith (organiser), Andy Cummins
Ireand’s first ever spoken word festival.
Includes Broadsheet’s popular Parnell-chinned ‘ricksmith John Moynes (arrowed).
Kalle writes:
“Last week we launched LINGO, Ireland’s first ever spoken word festival. It will take place in three Dublin venues (Workman’s Club, Smock Alley Theatre, The Liquor Rooms) over the weekend of Oct 17, 18 & 19. We are a totally independent festival run by a small committed group of passionate people who love spoken word and want to shine a light on the remarkable scene currently happening in Ireland.
Our bumper packed programme of mellifluous meter, superb storytelling and righteous rhymes can now be downloaded directly as a PDF.
It is brimming with a host of highlights, including headline sets from All Ireland Slam Champion John Cummins, Ireland Chair of Poetry Paula Meehan and UK spoken word sensation Polarbear, The Monday Echo, Over the Edge, The Brownbread Mixtape, Nighthawks, PETTYCASH, Weekly General Meeting and more. So much more.
Tickets are also now on sale from entertainment.ie here , with individual events priced as low as €10 and day passes for only €16. Weekend passes are already sold out! The festival will even feature a performance from broadsheet’s very own lyrical limerick wordsmith John Moynes. Expect rhymes.”