Rare Old Times – Johnny and Dara Quilty

Dara Quilty writes:

My Dad’s birthday today. Captain of the ship at The Goat Bar in Dublin, as he prepares to re-open after lockdown… we did a tune to mark to occasion, remembering Dublin in the rare ould times when you could get a pint…

The Goat Bar

Following an exhaustive hand-counted audit…

..The votes are in!

Last week, with a neighbourly €25 Golden Discs voucher offer, I asked you to name your favourite song by an artist from Australia or New Zealand?

You answered in your dozens, providing a playlist of down under beauties.

But there could be only one shrimp in the barbie.

Third Place:

Into My Arms by Nick Cave

Micko writes:

‘Because it’s just beautiful.’

Runner-up:

I Just Don’t Think I’ll Get Over You by Colin Hay

Andy Pipkin writes:

‘This song has stayed with me since I first heard it at my best friend’s funeral, she was only young and everyone was devastated. On hearing the song in the church there was not a dry eye in the house. The lyrics too this day still make me emotional.’

Winner:

Cattle And Cane by The Go-Betweens

Otis Blue writes:

‘Written on a guitar borrowed from Nick Cave, so the story goes. Grant McLennan told Cave “Every instrument has one good song inside and that was it.” Songs of adolescent yearning don’t come much better.’

Nick says: Thanks all.

Last week: Win Nick’s Voucher

Golden Discs

This morning/afternoon.

Anyone?

Pic: Sony


This Christmas.

Give The Golden Age of Dublin.

Ronan Carey writes:

You can’t have spent a day in Dublin without ever spying one of the famous “Malton Trail” signs dotted around the capital. These windows into the past show us what some of our most beloved spots looked like nearly two and half centuries ago.

Created and published especially by the Little Museum of Dublin to accompany our exhibition on the works of artist James Malton, this handsome new book serves a miniature biography of a city at the height of its golden age.

The Golden Age Of Dublin

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie with pics and short bio marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’.

Free December 19-20?

At Tayto Park, Ashbourne, County Meath.

Ian Collins writes:

Christmas is in the air at Tayto Park, as Ireland’s only theme park and zoo team up with Retro Drive-In Movies to reveal a two-day Christmas movie drive-in weekend on Saturday 19 Sunday, 20 of December….

…Arrive in the car, stay in the car and leave in the car, the Christmas movie drive-in at Tayto Park is safe, socially distanced and the perfect day out to get all the family in the festive spirit! Experience the magic of retro and catch Christmas classics such as Home Alone 1 & 2, The Polar Express, The Santa Claus and more on the big screen and more all from the comfort of your very own car!

Book tickets here

The latest New Yorker magazine with cover by cartoonist Adrian Tomine

Party at the bottom.

Ian Dent writes;

The New Yorker’s covers are so, so good. Always really elegant, saying a lot with very little. They really can’t be praised highly enough…

In fairness.

Aer LIngus is suspending publication of its in-flight magazine Cara

This morning.

Via Independent.ie:

…Cara didn’t have to print in high volume, but it was read by millions of passengers every year, and the production values reflected that. By the end of the month, copies were dog-eared, but hanging in there. And countless passengers will recall pulling fresh copies from seat-backs at the beginning of the month, inhaling that newly-minted whiff as they opened the pages…

Aer Lingus cuts Cara – much-loved magazine put to flight by Covid (Pól Ó Conghaile, Indpendent.ie)

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