An intriguing installation created in 2006 by artist Jeppe Hein featuring a fountain of water with a ball of flame somehow burning at the top.
Viewers are invited to guess how the anomaly is achieved.
‘Witchcraft’ is an acceptable answer.
The Lighthouse cinema, Smithfield, Dublin has sold out all FOUR screens (600 seats) to rock doc Mistaken For Strangers (2013) tomorrow night as part of the OneTwoOneTwo Music Film Festival.
Mistaken for Strangers, about a year in the life of a struggling young rock band The National, has been described by Pitchfork as the funniest music-themed film since This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Lighthouse has ONE pair of tickets left to give away in a simple-to enter competition.Plus they will throw in tickets to two more festival films of the winner’s choice.
To enter, just complete this sentence.
I want these tickets because I was in a band called_________________that didn’t make it because_________________
Lines close at midnight.
OneToOne Music Documentary festival (Lighthouse)
Thanks Tom Lowe
Leave It
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The current issue of Metro Eireann.
Rachel Mathews McKay, of Democracy Matters, writes:
Looks like we were waiting for the debate in the wrong direction. ‘Metro Éireann’ Ireland’s Multicultural Newspaper accepted an article from me and said nothing about the opposing article/debater. To my surprise I have discovered it’s no less than An Taoiseach himself. Worth the €1.90 if you can find a shop that sells it.
Everyday is Arthur’s day.
Inverness Cape-draped Guinness descendent Garech a Brún with a statue by Jarlath Daly of ‘controversial’ brewer Arthur Guinness unveiled today by Minister for Arts, Jimmy Deenihan in Arthur’s hometown of Celbridge, Co Kildare. Where they still love him.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
How Many?
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29 incidents of racism responded to in 1 month.Witnessed or been the victim of racism?stopracism@immigrantcouncil.ie https://t.co/Ihl6zoYrcb
— Immigrant Council.ie (@immigrationIRL) October 2, 2013
From July 2012 to July 2013, the Immigrant Council of Ireland responded to 120 racist incidents, working out at around 10 a month.
Want to report an incident?
The Hunt
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https://vimeo.com/75432576
An eerie short directed by Spike Morris and Oscar Hudson, originally broadcast as part of Channel 4′s Random Acts.
An ominous fox hunting party slowly disintegrates before our eyes as they give chase to an unlikely victim. What remains of ‘the hunt’ after all its defining symbols have fallen away?
Previously: Don’t Fear Death
Cork-born former TCD student in Belfield, Dublin TONIGHT.
Nick Walsh writes:
“There is an open invitation tonight to see Jack Gleeson, above, of HBO’s Game of Thrones talk about his career tonight in UCD.”
More details here
Professor Gordon Lynch, of Kent University has collaborated with the Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Archival and Oral History Project to produce educational materials on the Magdalene Laundries, directed to 16-year-old and/or Transition Year students.
In a short film, Magdalene survivor Gabrielle O’Gorman (above) revisits the the Sean MacDermott Magdalene Laundry for the first time since her incarceration.
She was sent there by nuns when they disapproved of her relationship with a boy when she was 17.
She later escaped but was returned by the Gardaí, only to be sent to the Good Shepherd Laundry in Limerick, where she was told she would be called ‘Stella’.
This film was funded by the University of Kent, and completed with the help of the Women’s Studies Centre at University College Dublin who led an Irish Research Council project on the Magdalene Institutions.
Watch here
H/T: Women’s Museum of Ireland
Previously: All Apologies
And did you nick these seven lightning preventers?
RTÉ reports:
“Gardaí have issued a warning to the public after radioactive material was taken in a burglary in Swords, Co Dublin over the weekend.
“Seven lightning preventers, which were contained in a red metal box, were taken during the course of the burglary.”
“They have the appearance of aluminium or stainless steel but are of no scrap value.”
“Gardaí say these are highly dangerous and should not be touched or approached.”
“The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland has said “if handled they will cause radioactive contamination to the person’s hands and clothing with the possibly of internal radioactive contamination.”