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Laura Whelan writes:

I run my own business designing and making jewellery and hats. Broadsheet has kindly featured my work In the past. This weekend I was taking part in a Craft fair in Dublin when a one of a kind Hat worth €200 was stolen from a display. Like many Irish designers I am a very small independent business and having something like this taken is a huge loss. I would be very grateful If anyone happens to see the hat or receive it as a gift could they please contact L Designs on my Facebook page.

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A look at some iconic reggae album covers, photographed in their original locations around London over four decades later, for Covers, an anthology of classic sleeves and the Thames-side surroundings that informed them, by photographer Alex Bartsch.

Writes Erin MacLeod in Pitchfork:

“London must be, outside of Jamaica, the place that is most richly influenced by Jamaican people living there,” says Al Newman (AKA Al Fingers) of One Love Books, the publisher behind Covers and a number of evocative books related to reggae. “I grew up in London and I grew up with Jamaican culture. But it is also kind of an unknown history to many people in the UK.”

The book has successfully completed Kickstarter funding, but is still available for pre-order here.

H/T: Pitchfork

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Free tomorrow?

Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Dublin 8.

From 11am-2.30pm

Renua Ireland has organised a conference  entitled ‘Bring Them Home’, which will focus on creating the conditions for our emigrants to return to Ireland but also to create more support for our taxpayers and working families to stay living in this country.

Among the many speakers will be economist Jim Power, Mark Fielding of Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) and Eamon Delaney, ex diplomat and director of the Hibernia Forum.

Bring Them Home Conference

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