Type City by artist Hong Seong Jang – a metropolis of metal printing press type.
Or, for those with a more pessimistic take on dead tree media, a necropolis.
[Professor Cormac] O Grada, a leading expert on famine, said there were many rumors about it in Ireland, but one documented report involved a John Connolly in the West of Ireland who came before the court on theft charges.
In the course of the prosecution it emerged that the family were in such desperate straits that his wife had eaten some of the flesh off the leg of the dead body of her son.
Cannibalism Was Likely Practiced In Irish Famine Says Leading Expert-N(Niall O’Dowd, Irish Central)
Princes Street, Cork.
(Thanks Noel Finn)
Eamon Gilmore with deputies Ciara Conway, Aodhan O Riordain and Dominic Hannigan launching the Irish language leg of Labour’s Fiscal Treaty Campaign at Merrion Square, Dublin earlier.
Meanwhile, outside Leinster House
Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy (top) and below with Joe Higgins TD and People Before Profit/ United Left Alliance Councillor Melissa Halpin with austerity polling cards.
(Sasko Lazarov and Sam Boal/ Photocall Ireland)
Vader Ice Cube/Chocolate Mould Tray: $10 from ThinkGeek
NOM, NOM, NOM, NOM-Na-NOM, NOM-Na-NOM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwfCRAtkYEI&feature=youtu.be
Gerald Maguire writes:
Thought you might be interested in this rip-off spot! This is the trailer (top) for the new NBC series Revolution; Check out the post-apocalyptic cityscape at 1.05. Look familar? It’s taken from the CGI short (above) you posted on Broadsheet previously – Ruin (from 20 seconds).
64 Years Ago
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‘Fat Frog; writes:
Today is the anniversary of the Nakba– the great catastrophe when circa 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in what has been described as ethnic cleansing. Perhaps you could cover…
Savage.
Spotted last Friday outside the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone.
Thanks Joe Darrer
An FAQ card distributed by musician and stand up comic Tom Wilson, who played the bully Mitt Romney Biff Tannen in Back To The Future.
Tom, what was it like actually travelling through time? Tom? Hello?
A BANKING consultancy firm which famously proclaimed Anglo Irish Bank to be the “best bank in the world” has been hired by state-owned Permanent TSB to help reorganise its entire operations, the Irish Independent has learned.
New York-based Oliver Wyman was also named in the US Financial Crisis Inquiry as a secretive consultancy which advised Citibank in 2005 to ramp up its exposure to collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), the complex mortgage securities which caused the world financial crisis.
Nothing to see here. Move along people.
Controversial finance experts called in to help Permanent TSB (Independent)