Yearly Archives: 2014

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The Irish Water protest around Merrion Square, Dublin this afternoon

Thanks Barbara McCarthy, Graeme Kelly, Stephen Maher, Sam Boaland Brainer

Meanwhile…

B4fw_dLIEAA_4hJ Merrion Square this lunchtime Thanks Mark Donaghy kImKjWX Spotted at the bottom of Grafton Street.

(Thanks Skerries)
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The sinister fringe in Merrion Street.

Thanks Gaffy Stewen

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(Thanks Wafflewaitress)

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Fancy some free pre-Christmas Meds?

Stuart Kinsella of German/Irish choral group Peregryne writes:

For those of you of a meditative mindset, you might be
interested in a wandering, nay, peregrinating schola of goliards who
will sing compline in the glorious acoustic of Whitefriar Street
church on Sunday 14 December at 17.00, and again in the medieval
setting of St Audoen’s church on High Street on Friday 19 December
at 17.30.

Peregryne will sing a series of very rarely heard Salve
Reginas by Josquin de Prez (c.1450/5-1521), John Browne (fl.c.1490)
and William Cornysh, senior (c.1430-1502), the latter two from the
Eton choirbook, all of which will culminate in a theological and
choral Advent-tide reflection on the text of the Salve Regina in St
Saviour’s, Dominick Street on Sunday 21 December at 15.00. All are
most welcome. The poster by the way depicts Dublin’s own black
madonna, ‘Our Lady of Dublin’, an early 16th-century wooden Marian
sculpture of mother and child thought to have come from the old
pre-Reformation Cistercian abbey of St Mary’s west off Capel Street,
and now in Whitefriar Street church. If you want something medieval
this pre-Christmas season, this is it.

UPDATE: Peregryne adds:

Just one alteration due to the death of a Carmelite priest, but compline on Sunday 14
December at 17.00 in Whitefriar Street Church will now take place at 17.30 in St Werburgh’s Street. The body is lying in repose in Whitefriar Street, so there are no choral services allowed.

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Pauline Power writes:

…my poem for the water charges protest to add to the others which I have found very inspiring. I marched against PAYE in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and today I am back on the streets. I would be grateful if you would share this around. I do not have a Facebook or twitter. I am 71 in January!

For The Day That’s In It
Now is the time to be counted
Our most precious resources change hands
Everyone watches the money go round
X marks the spot where it lands

Contract or not, they will crush you
Unless we all make the same stand
Sing out, all you brothers and sisters!
Everyone’s part of the band

Farmers and welders and till-girls
Old folks and bold folks and shams
Right left and centre, we all stand together
Sing out and we’ll take back our land!

Hear the authorities tremble
In cop-shops where force was once planned
This time we’re there in our thousands
Politicians, your time is at hand!

Out on the streets if you’re Irish!
Each boy girl and woman and man!
This is the day we seize freedom
Rise up and be part of the band!
You’re Irish and this is YOUR land!

(Pic: Sam Boal, Photocall Ireland)

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Designer and animator Chris Finn says of his metaphorical cavalcade

A romantic first date goes awry when a germaphobe lets his anxiety get the best of him. The film portrays metaphorical represenations of different stressors that occur during the date; a visual glimpse into the mind of a germaphobe.

Now wash your hands.

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Context: Porn protesters to simulate sex acts in front of Westminster Abbey (ITV)

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Via Open Society

CIA interrogation report: Battle lines being drawn (BBC)

CIA torture report: the UK must be honest about its complicity in these grisly crimes (New Statesman)

UK among US allies fearing revelations over role in CIA rendition programme (Guardian)

Thanks Ciaran O’Driscoll