Yearly Archives: 2014

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Nialler9 writes:

Anyone who browses gig listings like I do every week, may have noticed that The Academy venue on Middle Abbey Street in Dublin has not hosted an event for a while.

I presumed it was due to a planned break, but today, it was announced that the venue has been renovated into a “contemporary performance space that draws influence from the Victorian music hall style,” and the refurbishments include new lighting and upgraded sound system.

Dublin’s The Academy venue is being refurbished and reopening under new management (Nialler9)

Pic: Dublinrocks

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An excellent, award winning 2013 short by Jill Beardsworth and Keith Walsh of Twopair Films in which  a group of men sit in a West of Ireland pub on the day of the analogue to digital TV switchover, baffled at the vagaries of a fast changing world.

A universal tale.

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(H/T: Rich)

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What!?

Alan O’Regan writes:

“I’m signed up for notifications to my phone for illustration jobs and I got this e-mail (above) this morning. This shows the high value Illustrators have in this country. 120 illustrations (if they were any good) would take me at least 2 weeks (if you’re talking about completing maybe 9 a day – which is a stretch) and this individual is willing to pay €100. Sickening.”

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Tonight on BBC2, Martin Sixsmith (author of Philomena) goes on a journey to investigate the Irish Catholic Church’s role in an adoption trade which saw thousands of ‘illegitimate’ children taken from their mothers and sent abroad, often with donations to the Church flowing in the other direction.

In Ireland and in America, Martin hears the moving stories of the parents and children whose lives were changed forever and discovers evidence that prospective parents were not properly vetted – sometimes with tragic consequences.

He also witnesses the struggle of mother and child in their attempts to find each other across continents before it is too late. With no one willing to help and information scarce, for some it feels like after all these years the Catholic Church is still trying to keep them apart.

On BBC Two tonight at 9pm and RTÉ One tomorrow at 10:15pm.

Ireland’s Lost Babies (BBC)

Previously: After Philomena

The Art Of Storytelling

Anything Good On BBC News At Ten?

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Lorna writes:

“One lunchbox (like above), containing a rather delicious chicken, spinach and red cauliflower lunch (I swear it’s tasty). Left at the Dublin Bike stand on Barrow Street at 9/9:05 this morning. I blame sleeping out the alarm and rushing/being late for work. Failing a reunion, I hope someone can enjoy a tasty lunch on my behalf.”

Red cauliflower?

Anyone?

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The unfinished former Anglo headquarters in Dublin on Tuesday

Any day now the great and the good,
Will be called in to see if they could,
In some way pass the buck,
And make themselves look,
Like prophets, just misunderstood.

John Moynes

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)