#CorkLovesMusic

Admin at 2:43 pm October 4, 2016

Last month, TEDx CorkSalon presented #CorkLovesMusic, a two-night stint of talks and performances in Coughlan’s Live on Douglas Street, from musicians, DJs, singers, promoters, record-shop folk, music therapists and others speaking on their relationship with music.

In the playlist above is night one, hosted by your writer.

Talks from venue owner Sam McNicholl (Connolly’s of Leap), promoters Aisling O’Riordan & Caoilian Sherlock (Southern Hospitality Board), and record shop owner Ray O’Brien (Music Zone).

Performances from Dr. Dara O’Brien (sitar), Eamonn Cagney (percussion), M.Sea (vox/guitar), Arthur Itis (space), plus a guest appearance from Cork Sacred Harp Singers.

Night two on the ‘sheet tomorrow.

TEDx CorkSalon

Meanwhile, In Leinster House

Admin at 1:48 pm October 4, 2016

From left: Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Ruth Coppinger; convenor of Coalition to Repeal the 8th, Ailbhe Smyth; People Before Profit TD Brid Smyth; president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) Annie Hoey and Orla O’Connor, of the National Women’s Council of Ireland

The AV Room this afternoon.

At an Oireachtas briefing on a bill proposing to repeal the 8th amendment by the Anti-Austerity Alliance and the People Before Profit parties.

From the briefing…

“87% have indicated according to @AmnestyIreland that we want a broadening of abortion access” #repealthe8th #DáilBriefing pic.twitter.com/XQNonVr8Po

— USI (@TheUSI) October 4, 2016

“There are over 65 orgs representing over 1.5m are with @repealeight, crossing wide range of sectors” @ailbhes #repealthe8th #dáilbriefing

— USI (@TheUSI) October 4, 2016

“We need you, elected reps – to be leaders and take this forward – for us” says Orla from @NWCI #repealthe8th #DáilBriefing pic.twitter.com/lavFdW8BIW

— USI (@TheUSI) October 4, 2016

“We are winning 90%’s in favour of repeal in campuses all over Ireland” says @hoeyannie #repealthe8th #DáilBriefing pic.twitter.com/eooG9xuMjp

— USI (@TheUSI) October 4, 2016

Meanwhile, free this evening?

Via Ailbhe Smyth

Earlier: In Solidarity

Telephant

Niall Murphy at 1:42 pm October 4, 2016

jimbenton

The High Five

Admin at 1:35 pm October 4, 2016

A fascinating short detailing the 1970s origins of the world’s most famous hand gesture, directed and edited by Michael Jacobs for Strike Anywhere Films.

onesmallwindow

The Streets Of San Francisco

Admin at 1:20 pm October 4, 2016

Level adjustment in the city of copious slopes by Coco Liu.

Here’s how the third building actually looks.

thisisnthappiness

Jabs For The Girls

Admin at 12:56 pm October 4, 2016

From top: Dr. Brenda Corcoran, William Campbell.

William Campbell of the Here’s How podcast meets the HSE’s Consultant in Public Health Dr Brenda Corcoran to discuss the safety of HPV [human papillomavirus] vaccines (Cervarix, Gardasil, and Gardasil 9) which claim to prevent cervical cancer in females.

William writes:

I ask Dr Corcoran “Are girls going to die of cancer because they are being scared off the vaccine?’ She answers: ‘Yes’…

Fight!

Listen here

Here’s How

Staying In Tonight?

Admin at 12:25 pm October 4, 2016

Comedian Kevin McGahern’s new three-part series Kevin McGahern’s America starts on RTÉ2 at 9.30pm.

Sarah Neville writes:

Across the series, Kevin explores the various aspects of life in America—gun rights, intimacy in the digital age and whether you really can choose your family. In tonight’s episode Kevin meets some of the founders of the South Florida Survivalist Network and tries out some of their gear but it’s not a national disaster that Kevin fears…

Yankee Go Home

Admin at 12:12 pm October 4, 2016

Forty six years ago.

The National Archives of Ireland tweetz:

An official programme of the visit of President Richard Nixon to Ireland this week in 1970.

To which, Kate Horgan responds:

…and here’s a protester throwing eggs at Nixon in Dublin…

Name that street, anyone?

Meanwhile…

“I was down on the quays. My friend and myself split half a dozen eggs between us. I wouldn’t let Martin stay with me because I felt that the guards might recognise me and if they pulled me in, they’d pull him in too.

“I disguised myself, I made like an American tourist. I had dark glasses, a headscarf and a trench coat, none of which I ever wore normally. We had heard that the secret service had thrown themselves about so much that the guards had said ‘Stuff this, let them look after their own president’ type of thing.

“I knew I wouldn’t get Nixon because I have no aim so I decided to aim for the windscreen. I did an overarm lob and I got it dead centre on the windscreen. I was so proud of myself. Then I was grabbed by the guard and hauled across the bridge with a clatter of an old woman saying ‘throw her in the river, throw her in the river,’” she remembers.

Conall O Fátharta, in the Irish Examiner, in October 2010 reporteing on a new RTE documentary concerning Nixon’s visit to Ireland called The Forgotten Visit.

Nixon’s ‘forgotten visit’ to be recalled in documentary (Irish Examiner, October 2, 2010)