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Bride Street, Dublin 8.
Just a centaur. Out walking his horse.
(Thanks CON)
Earlier: Right So
This evening.
Miltown Luas Station.
Ruthie writes:
The standards of the Irish Bank holiday are alive and well….
Yesterday evening.
George’s Quay, Dublin 2
Stephanie McCardle tweetz:
Out of work in time to actually see the sunset (usually get its reflection in a nearby office), so this made me VERY happy…
Thanks Jeff Harbourne
Don’t forget.
The clocks go back 100 years this weekend.
Via Irish light bulb makers Solus:
The clocks go back in the early hours of Sunday October 30th at 2am, it marks 100 years since the concept of ‘daylight saving’ was introduced in Ireland under British rule.
Every year the clocks go forward an hour in March and back an hour in October but according to a new survey carried out by olus, 63% of Irish people would prefer if the practice was abolished…
When asked why the clocks go back, 83% of respondents cited day light saving and to benefit school children, energy efficiency and community, 13% believe it is to signal the end of summer, 1% quite rightly mentioned it is because William Willet wanted to play more golf
It was, in fact, the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay rocker Chris Martin – William Willet – that first introduced the concept of ‘daylight saving’ in 1907 and he actually was a keen golfer.
FIGHT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMWRvzMxBU
Valhalla, they are coming.
Ahead of the General Election in Iceland tomorrow [results Saturday night], a look at The Pirate Party, a collection of internet activists from both left and right that may help form a new government in the land of the midnight sun.
Couldn’t happen here.
FIGHT!
Pirate party prepares for first major win in Iceland elections (New Scientist)
On Saturday November 12, as part of the Dublin Book Festival, 2fm DJ Dan Hegarty, author of Buried Treasure Vol 2: Overlooked, Forgotten and Uncrowned Albums (Liberties Press) will be joined by Cormac Battle (vocalist with Kerbdog and DJ on 2fm), Bronagh Gallagher (singer and actress), RTÉ Radio Producer Ian Wilson, and journalist and author Tony Clayton-Lea for a night of underrated long players at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
Yesterday, to celebrate, we asked you to choose your favourite overlooked/forgotten/uncrowned album.
There could be only one winner.
Leopold Gloom wins a pair of tickets to see Buried Treasure with this rambling excellent contribution:
My favourite forgotten/overlooked/uncrowned album is My Computer – No CV. They were then and still now a massively unheard of band. But for a few 2-3 line reviews I’d read in a couple of magazines at the time I’d have missed them completely.
It got some decent reviews, and it had John Leckie on board producing so I hunted it down. It was mad swirling, cacophony of sounds that feels like its been diligently stitched together with great care and precision but equally at times like it’s been cobbled in a shed in Manchester (which it at times was)
I listen to it thinking I’m the only person who knows this album. I gave it to a friend years ago and he loved it and failed to get it back. I spotted it in Tower in the bargain bin years later and bought it instantly. We may be the only 2 who ever bothered listening to it on these shores, and we’ve since fallen out but the album is still bloody brilliant.
Here’s the long, bewildering Boy I Used to Be (Listen carefully for a dog after 2/3 minutes)
Thanks all
Buried Treasure: Overlooked Forgotten And Uncrowned Albums
Yesterday: Here Be Treasure
Rob McDonough writes:
Just found this weird note folded up in my wallet. Assumed it was a receipt I put in. Anyone?
This afternoon.
Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin 2
Australian businesswomen and supermodel Elle MacPherson launching her new lingerie range, Elle MacPherson Body,
She’s 62.
Sixty two.
Leon Farrell/Rollingnews
Listen.
If YOU dare.
Joe Byrne (top in red tie) writes:
Maynooth University and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth are full of wonderful spooky stories of ghosts sightings, meetings with the Devil and tales of treachery. For such a small place, it seems to be remarkably haunted!
Seven years ago, when I was a student there, I collected these stories and advertised a Walking Tour for interested students. I was floored when nearly 200 people showed up on a cold and misty October night to creep through darkened rooms and hear strange stories.
Every year since, I’ve made a trip to the alma mater to pass on these stories to the hundreds of people who followed me, and even compiled them as a book in order to preserve them (which can be found on Amazon).
This year, I’m living overseas, so I can’t make my Samhain pilgrimage; I decided that as a substitute, I’d create a digital alternative.
The most famous terrifying tale of Maynooth is undoubtedly its “Blood Room”, where a number of students in the seminary allegedly died under suspicious circumstances in the 1800s.
To this day the boarded-up window can be seen while walking around the campus. I tell this tale including some audio recorded on those tours in previous years, to give the listener a feel for the room:
More stories will follow, so if you want to keep up to date, you can follow iTunes or search “Ghost Stories of Maynooth College” wherever you get their podcasts.