Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery writes:

Our first episode of the Curators Choice series is live (above)! In episode one, our Director, Dr Barbara Dawson and Head of Collections, Logan Sisley discuss the intricacies and brilliance of Édouard Manet’s Music in the Tuileries Gardens, 1862 (top).

The Hugh Lane Gallery

That especially bright star in the evening sky of late is actually the planet Venus. This evening, it will begin to cross the beautiful Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster. To wit:

This digital sky map illustrates the path of the inner planet as the beautiful conjunction evolves, showing its position on the sky over the next few days. The field of view shown is appropriate for binocular equipped skygazers but the star cluster and planet are easily seen with the naked-eye. As views from Earth (top pic, 2004), Venus again passed in front of the Seven Sisters (pic 2) 8 years ago, and will again 8 years hence. In fact, orbiting the Sun 13 Venus years are almost equal to 8 years on planet Earth. So we can expect our sister planet to visit nearly the same place in our sky every 8 years.

(Image: David Cortner, Digital image: Fred Espenak (Bifrost Astronomical Observatory)

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Apartment for rent on Rathgar Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 for €1,200 per month

Today.

Paul O’Donoghue, of The Times Ireland edition, reports:

“There has been a significant increase in the number of renovated Dublin bedsits advertised for rent, many only slightly larger than prison cells, since the Covid-19 outbreak.

“Belgrave Property Management, a letting agent in Rathmines which manages many of the capital’s renovated bedsits, is currently advertising almost two dozen studios for rent. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, it rarely had more than six studios available to rent at any one time.

Meanwhile, Mr Donoghue tweetz….

Renovated Dublin bedsits flood onto market after coronavirus restrictions (Paul Donoghue, The Times Ireland edition)

Meanwhile…

Yesterday.

Daft.ie announced that it was working with companies in Dublin to identify empty apartments in the capital that healthcare workers could use free of charge.

Daft.ie identifying empty Dublin apartments to be used by healthcare staff during Covid-19 crisis (Breakingnews)

Your new claw.

Please grab knobs responsibly.

Pat Dennehy Signs’ “coronavirus brochure” here

Rob Cross writes:

My restored and colourised photo taken on June 16 1954, the first Bloomsday,  featuring poets Patrick Kavanagh & Anthony Cronin at the church – and Goggin’s pub – in Monkstown [County Dublin] with the carriage in which they’d been traveling about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.

Previously: Rob Cross on broadsheet

Mmmf.

Earlier…

Free at Midday?

Of course you are.

At noon today, President Michael D Higgins will broadcast a message across all independent, local and community radio stations.

Rollingnews

Thine morninge.

Via RTÉ

A series of classic productions of William Shakespeare’s plays, aimed at Leaving and Junior Certificate students, will broadcast on RTÉ2 over the coming weeks.

The productions, which will air weekend mornings on RTÉ2 beginning with the current 2020 curriculum for Leaving Certificate students, include Hamlet starring David Tennant and The Tempest with Andrew Sachs. King Lear which is on the curriculum for 2021 will broadcast the following week.

Junior Certificate texts for both 2020 and 2021 include A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring Matt Lucas, As You Like It with Helen Mirren, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet with a young Alan Rickman…

As you may like it…Hamlet 11/04/20 RTÉ2, 11.25am; The Tempest 12/04/20 10.50am; King Lear 18/04/20, 10.35am; A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 19/04/20;  10.35am; As You Like It – 25/04/20 RTÉ2, 9.45 am; Much Ado About Nothing – 26/04/2010.10am; Julius Ceasar – 02/05/20 RTÉ2, 10.20am, and Romeo and Juliet – 03/05/20  Time TBC

Pic: Shakespeare.org

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