Ah.
Annie West writes:
“Amusing Internet Café in Sligo…”
Yearly Archives: 2014
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Those holding the Trotskyite flame,
Have decided they need a new name,
Their old title lacks
An attack on the tax,
And the comrades thought that was a shame.
John Moynes
Oh.
Eamonn Power writes:
“Pretty unique selling point for BarRock in Old Town, Bratislava. They seem happy to go with it…”
Continuity Polaroids of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny from the set of The X-Files.
Photographer Donal Moloney writes:
“I was on a shoot in rural Ireland recently and a local told me about an old house once owned by a librarian named ‘Birdie’Higgins. Birdie moved out of this house 14 years ago and went to live in a retirement home. Time almost seems to have stood still since her leaving and me arriving. She died 3 years ago at the age of 94.”
[Christine Buckley, top, a survivor of Goldenbridge industrial school whose testimony formed the basis of RTE’s groundbreaking Dear Daughter documentary and with Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin in 2010. Above: a short profile of Christine made in 2009 when she was made Volunteer of the Year]
“Institutional abuse survivor and co-founder of the Aislinn centre Christine Buckley has died. She passed away at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin this morning following a long illness. She is survived by her husband Donal, sons Darragh and Conor and daughter Cliona.”
Campaigner Christine Buckley dies (RTÉ)
James Horan/Photocall Ireland
Then you may like this.
Window cleaner Jim Osborne, from Letterkenny in Donegal, created the above image on the condensation of his kitchen window with his finger last month,and photographing the results.. He has since created a collection of such images called The Steamy Windows Collection.
He explains:
The Steamy Windows Collection is a new departure for me. Working very quickly with my finger on the steamy glass, I create the mind’s cues for perception of a figure, or figures.
The background is provided by the real world behind the window caught with careful camera positioning, and captured before it is lost, seconds later. Nothing but vapour and light.
Now, his images are being sold on the Saatchi Art website at $495 a pop.
From his Saatchi collection:
Buy here.
Stunning exhibition on condensation drawings on display at the An Grianan (Donegal Daily)
Thanks Mel Healy
EU’s Employment Puzzle Infographic (The Institute Of International And European Affairs Blog
a visual insight from the Institute of International and European Affairs into the scale of the jobs crisis facing Europe.