Knocknacara looking towards Barns, Co Galway.
Thanks John Gallen
Cork Port this evening.
Thanks Eoin Drinan
Knock. Co Mayo this afternoon.
Peter Gordon writes:
“Outside Knock airport today when I got in from London.Nice to be home :-)”
Meanwhile…
TheHorror writes:
“What is Evelyn Cusack on about with her sun dancing?!”
RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin tonight.
Fully licensed.
Leinster RFC tickets competition winner Conor writes:
“Enjoying the game [Leinster Vs Bennetton Treviiso] from the posh seats….”
Jim Deasy writes:
WWW spotted on back road near Belcoo Co. Cork.
Beyond Slow Motion combines footage of athletic border collie Jumpy with the human parkour stylings of Alex Van Duong
Song: Straight West by Kasket Club.
For the day that’s in it.
Another part of UCD’s History Hub’s video series on the Battle of Clontarf – Commemorating Clontarf: 1014 through the Ages.
Mick Liffey writes:
The video looks at how the battle has been commemorated in the last 1000 years. It focuses on how the story of the battle was reshaped for political purposes at various different times in Irish history, beginning with Brian Boru’s great-grandson at the start of the twelfth century, through the romanticisation of the story in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to Daniel ‘O’Connell’s use of the battle in the mid-nineteenth century during the Repeal movement. Finally, it looks at the relationship between the Irish Volunteers and the Battle of Clontarf at the time of the 900th anniversary in 1914, and later, on the eve of the 1916 Rising.
The video features contributions from UCD historians Dr Elva Johnston, Dr Eamon O’Flaherty, Dr Conor Mulvagh as well as Dr Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail of the UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics. It was wholly funded by the UCD School of History and Archives.
Meanwhile…
Piper Mark Redmond (top) plays a specially-commissioned [by Dublin City Council] piece for the uileann pipe composed by Sandie Purcell to commemorate the Battle of Clontarf.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile….
Harry Byrne’s, Clontarf, Dublin last night.
It’s got a lovely head, in fairness.
Meanwhile…
Melanie Finn tweetz:
Gorgeous day for the Battle of Clontarf celebrations.
[A giant 3D printer at work at WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Company
in Shanghai, China]
Running at full speed, the company’s printer is capable of producing up to ten 650 sq. foot homes in just 24 hours. Measuring in at roughly 105 feet long, 33 feet wide, and 21 feet tall, this hulking 3D printer works almost exactly like a normal one — just on a much larger scale. It pumps a special type of pre-mixed concrete through a nozzle and onto a flat substrate in a pattern designed to give the finished house as much structural integrity as possible. Layer by layer, the house’s walls are built, and once the concrete dries, the house is outfitted with doors, windows, and a shingled roof.
Jay.
Kers.
This giant 3D printer can build 10 prefab homes in under 24 hours (Digital Trends)
Europe – satirically carved-up in 20 stereotypical and prejudicial ways by author and cartographer Yanko Tsvetkov.
Taken from his book Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons (Volume 2).
[From top: The front pages of today’s Diario Catarinense, published in Florianópolis, Brazil; Milenio Novedades, published in Yucatán, Mexico; Público Milenio, published in Guadalajara, Mexico; La Prensa, published in Panama City, Panama; Peru.21, published in Lima, Peru; and Hoy, a Spanish newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, USA]
Latin American press react to the death of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, who died yesterday, aged 87, as a result of complications from pneumonia.
Latin America reacts to death of literary colossus Gabriel García Márquez (Guardian)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez top 10 quotes (Telegraph)
Pics: Newseum
Ciaran McKenna plays Jesus during a Good Friday re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross at St John the Baptist Church in Clontarf, Dublin this afternoon.
Good Friday times.
Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland
