Going loive today.
The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) marks the 70th anniversary of the Rural Electrification Scheme this year by finally digitising its vast archive of reports, photographs and marketing literature.
Don’t forget to turn off the immersion.
https://vimeo.com/162383274
Apparently so.
Wrecking the Rising – a new three part drama series from Tile Films filmed at a full sized GPO set constructed inside a hanger at Galway airport. To wit:
The series follows three modern-day Irishmen, Ernest (Owen McDonnell – An Klondike / Single Handed), Tom (Sean T. Ó Meallaigh – The Callback Queen /Vikings) and Seán (Peter Coonan – Love/Hate [currently narrating RTE’s Inside The GPO series]), who endure listless and unexciting lives living in Dublin. Their only enjoyment comes from staging re-enactments of the Easter Rising. After being mysteriously transported back in time to 1916 they cause a huge blunder that has the potential to wreck the Easter Rising before it has even begun. Somehow they must keep history on course – and figure out a way to return to the future.
Wrecking the Rising: TG4, 9.30pm on three consecutive nights from Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th April, 2016
(Thanks Catherine)
Brian O’Nolan/Flann O’Brien/Myles na gCopaleen
Flann O’Brien is dead fifty years ago today.
Where’s his blummin’ monument?
Ireland loves, or pretends to love, its literary heroes, so much so that we put quotations from Ulysses on little brass plaques and nail them to the pavements for tourists and Dubliners alike to tread on, give to a gunboat the name of that most peace-loving Irishman, Samuel Beckett, while Oscar Wilde is represented by a hideous statue indecently asprawl on a rock behind railings opposite his birthplace.
What the reaction would be of Flann O’Brien, Myles na Gopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn (Irish for “the full glass”) or Brian O’Nolan – his real name, more or less – to the gushing lip-service we pay these days to our dead writers (he died 50 years ago on 1 April) can be easily guessed: a sardonic shrug, and a turning back to the bar to order another ball of malt.
Writer John Banville
My Hero By John Banville (Guardian)
Pic via Peter Reid
Meanwhile…
Extract from The Third Policeman
The same small island that gave the world Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Dunlop pneumatic tyre*, also gave us Flann O’Brien, the Patron Saint of Bicycles…
Flann O’Brien and a wheel revolution (MelHealy)
Meanwhile…
A Dalkey archive.
Stephen Devine writes:
A picture I created by merging a photo of Sorrento Terrace [Dalkey, county Dublin] from 1910 and one from yesterday.
Basilica di Siponto – a ghostly interpretation of an early Christian church at the Archaeological Park of Siponto in Italy constructed from wire mesh by artist Edoardo Tresoldi.
The original building once stood at this spot.
The evolution of DC’s Amazon queen.
She’s 75 you know.
Seventy five.
Related: Birth Of A Feminist Role Model
This morning.
West Belfast Lombard Street, Dublin.
Very fleggy.
Thanks Oval Head
For the day that’s in it.
The tale of Margaret Kehoe, fatally injured on April 24th, 1916, while helping the wounded during that day’s rising effort.
Jane Lawrenson writes:
The video was produced by bigOmedia for the Ireland2016 team. It was directed by Kate Dolan and had an almost all female creative team working on it. It was made for International Women’s Day and for the launch of the 1916 Women’s programme.
Olga Wehry [1916] and Amy DeBhrún [2016] are the featuring actors. The video focuses on the differences and similarities between two women 100 years apart. It honours the women of 1916 while celebrating the women who are creating the Ireland of tomorrow.
Thanks Sinéad McCarthy
Earlier: Defiant Women
This morning.
South Georges Street, Dublin
A new mural to mark International Women’s Day and 1916..
Darragh writes:
Irish artist Gearoid O’Dea has installed a 35 foot street art installation inspired by the Women of 1916. The installation is on the corner of South Great George’s Street, the same location as Joe Caslin’s iconic Marriage Equality mural.
The title of Gearoid’s piece is ‘Le Chéile I Ngruaig’, which translates as ‘Together in the hair’. It features three women who each played an important role in the Easter Rising: Countess Markievicz (left), Margaret Pearse (right) and Grace Gifford-Plunkett (bottom). The piece was drawn in full colour using the mediums of colouring pencil and gouache, with a focus on meticulous detail. It was then scanned and digitally reproduced on a large scale….
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews
Meanwhile…
Ah here.
Thanks Kathleen
Part of an archive of 6,000 pieces of writing by Bob Dylan recently acquired by a group of institutions in Oklahoma for between $15 and $20 million.
Above: draft lyrics for Dignity (1989), a version of Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Ooer.
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