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Friday June 19 – 21st The Wellington Weekender @ The Workman’s Club, Wellington Quay, Dublin (Free)

Nialler9 writes:

A lot of regular festival goers will be at Body & Soul this weekend so The Workman’s are throwing a three-day free series of gigs featuring some Irish talent including We Cut Corners, Simi Crowns, Staring At Lakes, Silences and more along with DJs and a Saturday market too….

Nialler9’s Gig Guide June 16-22 (Nialler9)

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This morning.

Breakfast at the  James Joyce Centre, North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1 to celebrate Bloomsday featuring David Norris, singing and Joyce cosplaying.

Second pic: Sabrina Joyce a great grandniece of James Joyce holds her 10 month old daughter Aimeila. Third pic: Shelli Whitfeld  and Julien Bane.

Pics: Ruth Medjber

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Senator David Norris and Green Party Dublin City Councillor Claire Byrne, third from left, with  unidentified Joyceans at the St Andrew’s Resource Centre on Pearse Street in Dublin this morning.

Via Claire Byrne

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At 1.10pm today.

A group of actors will feed seagulls at O’Connell Bridge/bachelor‘s Walk.

Ned O’Sullivan is not welcome

At It Again

 

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 Skellig Michael island, Co Kerry, July 2014

 So we can afford to give a hugely wealthy film production company free use of a State asset, namely an Air Corps helicopter, for the filming of Star Wars on Skellig Michael (“Star Wars given free use of Defence Forces resources”).

The usual justification for such Government largesse is that it will attract tourists to Ireland. To see what?

Well, not the outstanding ethnographic collection of the National Museum for example, as it can’t afford to display it, nor the closed George Bernard Shaw Museum, and probably not the archives of the Jewish Museum for much longer, and most definitely not a Rubens at Russborough House.

It is time for the Minister for the Arts Heather Humphreys to start typing some invoices and fully realise the value of our cultural capital, as I am sure Disney’s accountants do.

Erica Devine
Sandycove,
Co Dublin.

FIGHT!

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Pic: Sheila Larkin

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Woodland Walk,  Strokestown, Co Roscommon.

Mary Cooney writes:

If you are in Strokestown House and Woodland Park, Co. Roscommon during the Summer, be sure to check out the fantastic outdoor sculptures created by post primary students from the Midlands and Western region for Strokestown’s annual School’s Sculpture Competition.

This year’s theme is “Ireland, the Land of a Thousand Welcomes”. Visitors to Strokestown Park can stroll through the picturesque woodland walk and see the students’ sculptures which are dotted along the path. Visitors can then vote for their favourite piece on return to the reception desk.

Above is the entry from Ardscoil Phádraig, Granard, Co. Longford which is a giant wooden 8’x4′ mug of tea, complete with open half door. You can look inside the mug to see a little room with a table set for tea in typical Irish Country Style. And what would make you feel more welcome than a giant mug of tea…

Strokestown House and Woodland Walk is open to the public all Summer. Entry is free.

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