Yearly Archives: 2014

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Some youthful reaction to the U2/Apple album iTunes giveaway.

More here: Who Is U2?

Previously: All That We Can’t Leave Behind

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What you may need to know:

1. Set in Depression-era North Carolina, George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) is a successful timber magnate. He falls in love with the strong-willed Serena (Jennifer Lawrence), but after they are married he discovers that she cannot bear children.

2. Based on the 2008 bestselling novel by Ron Rash.

3. Danish director Susanne Bier won the best foreign language film Academy Award for In a Better World (2010).

4. The Academy loves a bit of period drama.

5. This is the third collaboration between Lawrence and Cooper after Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013).

6. Principal photography for Serena was completed in 2012, but Bier spent nearly two years in post-production. That’s a lot of editing.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Oscar bait.

Release Date: October 24

(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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Edward Stevenson

“Together we have created a country that is the envy of the world. Unity is strength, and the best way of securing our future is for Scotland to remain an active and enthusiastic member of the most successful political union in history. Next year, as is a long-held tradition, many of us will come over to Scotland for the annual Battle of the Boyne commemorations, and we very much hope that we will not require our passports.”

Edward Stevenson, grand master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland

McFight!

Orange Order rally over ‘evil’ threat to Union (The Scotsman)

Thanks Mark Geary

Spotted on Store Street, Dublin 1.

Related: Prefabs may be used to tackle housing crisis in Dublin (Kitty Holland, Irish Times)

Previously: The New Homeless

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Children protest outside the Kinsale Road Direct Provision Centre in Cork.

Brian O’Connell, of RTÉ, tweets:

Residents have been blocking access to the Kinsale Road Direct Provision Centre since 5am. Report on Today With Sean O’Rourke after 10am.

Previously: “He Took Me Around Some Bushes”

Pics: Brian O’Connell and Jonathan Healy

UPDATE:

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Give It Up by the mighty Israeli DJ and composer Kutiman – the first track released from an upcoming album featuring tunes composed of sampled and resequenced YouTube videos of mainly amateur musicians [all 23 featured in this track are credited here].

Previously: Eye Candy: Thru Tokyo

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