SUNDAY: Africa Day @ Farmleigh House, Phoenix Park, Dublin (Free, 11pm – 6pm)
Nialler9 writes:
A family and world-music-friendly Sunday afternoon affair featuring music from nine-piece Afro-fusion band K.O.G. & The Zongo Brigade, upcoming Irish bands Barq & AikJ and a hip-hop stage too.See here
for full listings.
An extensive (and doubtless expensive) array of architectural elements by ltalian artist Edoardo Tresoldi commissioned as part of a royal event in Abu Dhabi.
Constructed from wire mesh, lit from above and below to create the ghostly effect, the installation took Tresoldi three months to put in place with the help of Dubai-based Designlab Experience.
Previously: Is There Anything To Be Said For Another Mesh?
From top: Mayo-bound German parachutist?l The Evening Herald, November 28, 1945
Or did he?
Forgotten Irish Tricksters‘ is a series by historical blogger Sibling of Daedalus exploring the absolute chancers that brought acting the maggot to an artform but are now barely remembered.
Number 2: Maureen Corrigan and Charlotte Brownlee.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Throughout the Battle of the Atlantic, the bodies of dead German airmen washed up with regularity onto the rocks of the coasts of the west of Ireland.
Occasionally it was rumoured that, like the sailors of the Spanish Armada, some of them survived, hidden in remote cabins, awaiting a more formal invasion by their countrymen.
No one was entirely surprised, therefore, when, in 1944, two teenage girls, Maureen Corrigan and Charlotte Brownlee, reported the presence of foreign parachutists in the Ballina area.
But, after an apparently thorough search by army and Gardai failed to uncover any trace of foreign men, the girls were charged, convicted and sentenced to several months for wasting official time and general trickery.
According to the judge hearing the case, Corrigan and Brownlee were thoroughly bad, their actions prompted by exhibitionism, the wish for their photographs to appear in the papers, and the desire to be interviewed at length by high-ranking army officers.
However, the following year, Sergeant Michael Cavanagh, a Mayo-born soldier in the American Army, disclosed to the Evening Herald the existence of Nazi documents designating North Mayo as a leading airfield base in the event of an invasion of Ireland.
Nothing has been heard of the girls since their conviction and sentence.
High-level trickers or lowly victims of a Churchill-deValera cover-up?
YOU decide.
Previously: Forgotten Irish Tricksters: Mary Kate Hodges
Pic: Frj2
A really very impressive indeed trailer for an as-yet unmade full-length feature based on Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk’s classic comics series Agent 327 created with open source 3D software Blender.
Directed by Colin Levy, even he of the most successful Blender feature produced thus far: Sintel (2010).
Bonus Citroën H-type.
The River Corrib under the Wolfe Tone Bridge, Galway
Denise McNamara, in the Connacht Tribune, reports:
An 18-year-old girl who was rescued from the River Corrib following a suicide attempt, was then turned away from the Emergency Department at UHG.
Dripping wet from the attempted drowning at Wolfe Tone Bridge, she was assessed in the back of an ambulance by a triage nurse and was deemed unfit to be admitted to the hospital.
She kept insisting she would take her own life, so Gardaí brought her to a cell at Mill Street for her own safety.
When her father arrived to collect her from Galway Garda Station, she was still insisting that she would repeat the suicide attempt.
The pair then drove to the Emergency Department, where he pleaded with medical staff to admit his daughter due to her acute psychotic state. Staff refused, and she remained in a distressed and uncooperative state.
Samaritans: 116 123
Pieta House: 01 6010 000
Aware: 1890 303 302
Suicidal teen rescued from Corrib then turned away by UHG (Connacht Tribune)
Pic: Stan Carey
Earlier today.
Outside the Fire Restaurant on Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Comedian Al Porter was unveiled as the host of TV3’s new dating show, Blind Date, this autumn.
Those who wish to take part in the lorra lorra laughs show, can apply here
*Pop*
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews
