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Maeve Murphy writes:
With St. Patrick’s Day looming, in my studio anyways, my Handmade Shamrock Brooches are an elegant touch compared to the usual plastic you see on Paddies Day. Hand wrapped copper wire for the stem gives a nice shine to it. Handy to send around the globe too! You can buy them online from my Etsy shop here for $6.50.
Buy here
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Just two months ago, I was writing enthusiastically about the possibility that Lucinda Creighton might soon step forward as a rallying figure “for the growing numbers of disenchanted citizens now struggling to breathe in this Republic of Fiscal Rectitude and Very Little Else”.
Lucinda Creighton is a great woman. In a healthy country, she would be embraced as a God-sent force to take us into the heart of the unfolding century. But, now, on second thoughts, I don’t believe it’s going to happen. The moment has passed without as much as a click in the night.
Mmmf.
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
In the latest installment of their Pet Film Series, the Pet Collective presents the story of Finding Nemo, as told by a kid and his kittens.
Ah come on. They’ve spelled Nemo with an adorable backwards ‘e’ and everything.
Neck spec by Real Men Real Style.
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Enda Cunningham, Iain Henderson, Dermot Ahern, Enda Bolger, Meliosa Fitzgibbon, Mick Crowley, Brynmor Pattison and Joe Donnelly.
£1 off emigraNOMNOMNOM
A carefully-budgeted car ferry/’cheese’ promotion from Calvita and B & I Line on RTE in 1987.
‘Second-rate edam’ hipsters.
They’re re-making the country.
One ‘knick knack’ at a time.
Alex Mcleod writes:
I wanted to teach myself to knit because I wanted to make my own jumpers. Then I developed an interest in different yarns, fibres and textures and taught myself to spin my own yarns with a traditional spinning wheel.
I was spinning lots of natural coloured yarn (mostly white) and wanted to be able to dye it, so I bought some dyes and got to grips with the process. Then I saw an opportunity to go some way to supporting myself – using techniques inimitable by means of mass production. I’m based in Wexford and online {link below] (altho the site needs a bitta work).
‘Mumtrepreneur’ artist Lucy Kelly writes:
I would love to introduce you to my recently launched business [designing and selling one-of-a-kind custom made typography framed Prints. Based in Greystones, Co Wicklow with every product designed and printed in County Wicklow.]. Check out the website for Valentine’s specials too..
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[Irish language commissioner Sean Ó Cuirreáin]
How many Government members showed up to see Sean Ó Cuirreáin appearing before an Oireachtas sub-commitee to deal with the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language today?
Answer: Níl aon.
Mr Ó Cuirreáin is to resign early from his post next month saying he can achieve “very little” for Irish speakers and Gaeltacht communities over the rest of his term because of government neglect.
He gave as an example a claim by the Revenue Commissioners that a third of all their press releases were being issued in two languages. But when his office checked, it emerged that they were being issued only in one language. And then, once a year, it was getting four months’ worth of press releases translated in one go…
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, as they say in Connemara.
Irish language ‘being driven to margins of society’ (Harry McGee, Irish Times)
(RTE)
Previously: Beal Out
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Graeme Kelly writes:
As seen on the Windows8 App Store. Just as they are about to dump [April 8] their best OS WinXP…