Sculptor Anthony Gormley’s public artwork ‘Another Place’ – one hundred 650kg cast iron figures installed along two miles of Merseyside’s Crosby Beach since the mid 2000s – recently captured by photographer Paul Sutton in particularly good light.

Many more pix here

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John Lannon, Roger Cole of Peace And Neutrality Alliance. and People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett at the launch of ‘Shannon Airport, War and Renditions’, in Buswells Hotel, Dublin.

The booklet, published by Shannonwatch, the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) and the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM), outlines “the legal instruments being violated as a result of US military and CIA use of Shannon”

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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David Noone, singer songwriter and poet (with a wonderfully-titled collection, ‘My Cat Is A Vicious Drunk’)  plays a repertoire of Nick Cave’s choons at Stags Head Raw, upstairs in the Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin this Sunday.

Above, Derek David sings  ‘Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere’ from Cave’s 1997 album, The Boatman’s Call.

8pm. €8.

Windrider Reflective Bicycle Clips: $20/pair from Dutch designer Gijs Bakker.

These cool pant clips comfortably and swiftly peg legs. The fluorescent PVC glows in the dark, providing visibility for night riding. Some of our rave-bound customers have been strapping them on to their arms as nightclub accessories.

Ah, Amsterdam.

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On this day in 1896

 Dublin Corporation passed a motion to change the name of Love Lane to Donore Avenue, ‘to the mutual benefit and advantage of all parties’.

 

Ah here.

Anyone?

Dublin Diary (DublinHeritage.ie)

Pic via Dublin.ie

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus and John Moynes

 

 

The launch of David Norris’ memoirs ‘A Kick Against The Pricks’ at City Hall, Dublin, yesterday.

From second pic: Eamonn McCann; Alice Leahy and Garda Edel Corcoran.

Michal Collins’ fan club (out of picture).

(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)


A 2012 Bachelor film project from Asger Grevil, Mette V. Madsen, Jonas Kirkegaard and Michael Bech of The Animation Workshop in Denmark.

A solitary, one winged creature called Wing is harassed by a group of oppressive crows due to being weak and different from them. He decides that he wants to overcome his disability and escape from the forest.

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