They came over here.

A video featuring people who have made Ireland their home to showcase a new exhibition at the Little Museum of Ireland reflecting on ‘the relationship between victims of the Great Famine and people from all over the world who seek shelter in Ireland today’.

Leave to Remain:Refugees in Ireland 1847-2017 (until April 29) includes photographs by Serbian artist Vukasin Nedeljkovic, recording his experience of direct provision for three years.

Leave To Remain (The Little Museum of Ireland)

1980s ‘woonball’ housing in the Dutch municipality of Hertogenbosch, north-west of Eindhoven.

Designed by the late Dutch artist and architect Dries Kreijkamp and still fully occupied 35 years on, the 5.5m diameter PVC bubbles of the ‘Bolwoningen’ sit on cast concrete plinths with an internal staircases connecting two bedrooms on the bottom floor, a kitchen and bathroom on the first and living space with a panoramic view up top.

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Seapoint east beach, Dublin, last night.

(Thanks Craig O’Toole)

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Sightings of coypu, a large rodent with bright orange teeth, have been made in the Royal Canal

The residents of Castleknock
Are soon to be in for a shock
A beast like a rat
But far bigger than that
May be lurking round the canal lock

John Moynes

Pic: Wikipedia

This afternoon.

They’re in so much trouble.

Facebook staff had access to millions of people’s passwords (CNN)

Poets.

We love them.

Ultan Mashup writes:

Happy International Poetry Day to BS Readers. Above is the awesome John Cooper Clarke – (playing Ireland again in April). Image is my own (Seamus Heaney’s last words – off Richmond Street South, Dublin 2 – by Maser)….

From top: Football defector Declan Rice as a Republic of Ireland player; from his Instagram account in 2015

Ah

The footie star, who turned his back on Ireland last month, could start for England tomorrow for the first time following his country switch

…But social media posts have emerged of Rice crowing “up the Ra” and his hope of playing AGAINST the Three Lions….

FIGHT!

RICE’S SHOCK COMMENTS Former Ireland star Declan Rice roars ‘Up the Ra’ in resurfaced social media posts ahead of first England game (The Irish Sun)

Golden-throated, blue-eyed Dublin soul singer Paddy Groenland (Paj) releases a  video/music comedy mashup every week (above is his latest).

However….

Paj’s excellent first single proper ‘Friends Confused’ (above) has just ‘dropped’.

And is available here on all formats.

In fairness.

Paj

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