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‘Honest To Blog’ One day symposium organised by Pue’s Occurrences.

Posted in Events, Social History on March 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Where did February go? Apparently, it only has 28 days. I feel like two days have been stolen on me. The surprise arrival of March this morning reminded me to boot up the poster for this event, the second symposium organised by the people behind the group history blog Pue’s Occurrences.

Pue’s is one of my favourite blogs. I wrote this piece for it in the past on the great Black and Tans/Auxiliary Cadets dispute (Or eh…great to those of us who get upset about such things) and I really enjoy the approach taken by the sites editors to the study of history. Their first symposium, Blogging The Humanities, was a huge success. Most importantly of all, we got to put some faces to names. The internet works that way, you know a name well before you’ve ever shook hands.

This symposium is a follow-up to last year’s ‘Blogging the humanities’. One of the topics that came out of that day as a central area of concern was the legitimacy of blogging as a medium. What is the status of a blog? What use is it to those engaged in arts and humanities research and practice? Should blogs be seen as legitimate teaching, research and outreach tools? The day will consist of two sessions and a roundtable, in which speakers who have used blogging in a variety of contexts will give their perspectives and respond to questions. There will be plenty of time for discussion. The event is open to all and we especially encourage non-academic members of the blogosphere, blogging skeptics and aspiring bloggers to attend.

The draft programme for the event can be read here.

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One for your diary

Posted in Events on February 24, 2011| 1 Comment »

An interesting seminar coming up next month in reaction to last year’s fantastic Redrawing Dublin book.

UCD Humanities Institute, Gradcam and Dublin City Public Libraries present

‘Redrawing Dublin: interdisciplinarity and interrogation’: a public seminar in response to Paul Kearns and Motti Ruimy, Redrawing Dublin (Gandon Editions, 2010)

Monday, 14 March 2011 | 14 March 2-4pm 2011
Dublin City Library and Archive Seminar Room, Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, Dublin 2

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Too cool for school.

Posted in Events on February 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Local school is closed tomorrow anyway, with the elections.

Still, we’re delighted with this mention in Le Cool. Come down, say hello.

We’re over here.

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Dublin Book Festival 2011

Posted in Events, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 24, 2011| 1 Comment »

Without trying to sound like that bloke from that T2 ad, we really are lucky in this city to have been gifted some of the most talented authors, poets and playwrights the world has seen. Only fair then that we should have a festival to celebrate this talent; the Dublin Book Festival takes place in Dublin next week, 2nd – 6th March.

Dublin Book Festival 2011

There are a few highlights, the full programme is available here, but below are a couple of things I’m going to try make it along to:

WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
National Library of Ireland
in Association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature & National Library of Ireland:
DUBLIN, ITS PLACE IN LITERATURE
Eileen Battersby in conversation with Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger
Tickets: €5
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THURSDAY 3 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
The Cube, Project Arts Centre
CURRENT AFFAIRS: STEPPING INTO A BRIGHTER FUTURE
Vincent Browne, Shane Coleman, Justine McCarthy, Stephen Kinsella, Ken Foxe
Tickets: €5
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SATURDAY 5 MARCH 1.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
LAUNCH OF THE LAST IRISH PLAGUE – THE GREAT FLU EPIDEMIC IN IRELAND 1918-19 BY CAITRIONA FOLEY
Admission Free – no booking necessary.
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SATURDAY 5 MARCH 4.00pm: Enjoy!
DUBLIN LITERARY PUB CRAWL
Join Dublin actors on a tour of Dublin’s literary pubs, a 2 hour tour departing from Dublin’s City Hall
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this tour, but you do need to reserve a seat. Check the official site for details. Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
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SUNDAY 6 MARCH 3.00pm: Up for Discussion
Council Chamber, City Hall
TOMORROW’S WOMEN: WHAT’S NEXT FOR MNÁ NA hÉIREANN
Victoria White, Dr Ann Matthews, chaired by Susan McKay
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this event, but you do need to reserve a seat. Check the official site for details.  Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
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As I said, check the official site here for full details of how to book tickets, there might be something that catches your eye. Unfortunately the Ross O’Carroll Kelly talk is sold out, the only one of the festival to have done so!

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Sounds of Resistance Punk Night

Posted in Events, Music, Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Next Saturday, Murray's Bar, O'Connell Street

Coinciding with the implosion of Fianna Fáil and the inevitable trundling in of our new Fianna Gael overlords is a great weekend of music in Murray’s Bar on O’Connell Street. It looks set to be a busy weekend for us here at CHTM! too, with our involvement in both gigs. JayCarax and DFallon are spinning the decks on Friday night at the ever excellent Punky Reggae Party while I’ll be hitting the stage at some point on the Saturday night at the above gig; a thumping line-up containing Dublin crust legends Easpa Measa, Droppin’ Bombs and newbies Dirge. Following the bands will be Punky Reggae DJs until 2.30 AM. The gig is a joint fundraiser for the IPSC, AFA and the St. Pauli Supporters Club Dublin. 
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Doors @ 9pm, first band @ 10pm.
Entrance – €8 waged / €5 unwaged.

Sounds of Resistance on Facebook
Event Page

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Punky Reggae Party (Vol. 9) – This Friday!

Posted in Events, Music on February 21, 2011| 5 Comments »

I’m sayin’
the Wailers will be there
the Damned, the Jam, the Clash
Maytals will be there
Dr. Feelgood too

Excitement builds as we approach the ninth installment of the Punky Reggae Party.

Our goal has always been to unite various musical styles and scenes under one roof for one night a month. We want the old skool reggae fans and skinheads to come down to listen to quality Trojan and Studio One records and THEN stick around to hear dancehall, ragga and jungle. We also want the Adidas-wearing junglist whipper-snappers to come down early and listen to the original ska and rocksteady so as to hear where their favourite tunes owe their origins.

This month’s gig sums the whole thing up.

Warming up the night will be myself and DFallon. I’ll be looking after the Motown & Stax side of things along with first wave Irish and British punk. Fallon on the other hand will be introducing some Trojan skinhead and mod reggae for your aural delights.

Next up will be Stealin Gately (aka Oshroom) who will be heating things up with some ragga, bashment and Jungle anthems. The word about town is that killed his set at Gamepak in Murrays on Feb 11 so we’re expecting the good stuff.

Bringing the night to a close will be the unstoppable Dirty Dubsters who have recently clocked up an amazing 100,000 listens on Soundcloud and over 80,000 views on Youtube in little over a year. The duo DJ Obese and JaySharp seem to be living in the studio as they’re bringing out tune after tune after tune. Fresh from a mini-tour in the Czech Republic and just before they ram Twisted Pepper for their Irish Moss Records launch party in March, check them out while you still can in the intimate basement of Murray’s.

So, stall down. Bring your friends. Dance the night away. Support the local scene.

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‘Hannah and her Sisters’

Posted in Dublin History, Events, Social History on February 19, 2011| 6 Comments »

This month-long exhibition to celebrate International Women’s Day falling in March looks excellent, it will take place in the ever-hideous ILAC Centre. I look forward to attending, as I consider Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington to be one of the most interesting characters of the revolutionary period.

01 March 2011 10.00
End date: 31 March 2011 18.00
Event: EXHIBITION: ‘HANNAH AND HER SISTERS’
About: Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington as a suffregette and Irish nationalist. She co-founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women’s voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women’s Workers’ Union.
Venue: Central Library, ILAC Centre, Henry Street, Dublin, Dublin 1
Organisation: Dublin City Council

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Robert Noonan commemoration

Posted in Events on February 2, 2011| 4 Comments »

Plaque, unveiled in 1991, above the door of his birthplace, 37 Wexford Street. Credit - DFallon

Only visible from the top deck of a bus, Robert Noonan (1870-1911) the Irish writer and socialist is commemorated by a small and unassuming plaque on 37 Wexford Street, the place of his birth.

Noonan, best known for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was the son of Samuel Croker, a retired RIC constable and Mary Croker (nee Noonan). He was a skilled painter, decorator and sign-writer who worked first in South Africa (c. 1888 – c. 1901) and then Hastings, England (c. 1901 – 1911).

To mark the 100th year anniversary of his death, the Irish National Painters’ & Decorators’ Trade Group of SIPTU are organising a talk in Liberty Hall tomorrow evening.

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Eat My Shorts 2

Posted in Events on January 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This looks great, I shall be attending with my much more creative younger brother. The brainwave of students, the event is completely free and the door open to everyone. More of this kind of stuff in recession hit Ath Claith, please…

Eat My Shorts is an event which promotes emerging filmmaking talent from across the globe in a cool, free, sound, deadly space. We do so through taking short film submissions throughout the year and hosting events to screen a diverse selection of what we’ve received.

In June 2010 we set up shop in Exchange Dublin, Temple Bar and gave out free popcorn and cadet soda, had a DJ and 11 exceptionally brilliant shorts.

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And to think the Germans didn’t want us reading it….

Posted in Events on January 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This is a jeu d’esprit, a fusion of the real, the fantastic and the legendary, by a writer of amazing technical virtuosity.

So began the 1939 review of Brian O’Nolan’s classic At Swim Two Birds inside The Irish Times, a paper he was all too familiar with one could say. The reviews latter assertion that “it is quite impossible to give an accurate idea of the contents of the work” is something that will resonate with many!

In it’s first six months, a mere 244 copies of the work were sold. The warehouse of Longman’s, the works publisher, were destroyed by a German bombing during the second World War and that, for a period, marked the death of At Swim Two Birds.

My favourite of the authors works, Blue Raincoat are staging a production of At Swim Two Birds in the Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar.An excellent review of the companies production can be found at the site of the Irish Theatre Magazine, written by Patrick Lonergan of NUI Galway.

At Swim Two Birds is a genuine celebration of the theatrical: it sent me back to the original novel – but it also left me waiting impatiently for an opportunity to go and see the play again.

The play will run from February 22 to March 5, and tickets are available from the Project Arts Centre online.

A pint in The Palace and a trip to the theatre is in order.

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This Is Not A Love Song

Posted in Events, Music on January 10, 2011| 1 Comment »

Playlist – Nouvelle Vague by Itubaina Radio Retro

My first ‘ticketmaster.ie gig’ (basically any gig that involves paying for it before arriving at the venue door) of the year is an exciting one. Nouvelle Vague are a truly exciting act, taking on new wave, punk and classic indie tracks with vigour, even reworking The Specials in a way that didn’t make purists like me cringe (If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest Lily Allen and Blank Expression).

Debut album Nouvelle Vague is a tribute to new wave period classics, and in this house is played to bits. Bande à Part and 3 broadened the scope, with everyone from Echo and the Bunnymen to Soft Cell getting the honour of a Nouvelle Vague reworking.

They roll into town on the 21st, a Friday night (Saturday morning) affair at Tripod . Incredibly, I’ve yet to see them in Dublin.

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Jan 14 – 15

Posted in Events on January 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Next weekend is shaping up to be a cracker.

FRIDAY JAN 14:

Kaboogie celebrates their 5th birthday with SCRATCHA DVA (hyperdub / rinse fm – uk), MUNGO’S HI-FI (scotch bonnet – scotland), MC SOOM T (jahtari / !kaboogie – scotland, !Kaboogie Djs, All City Records Djs (upstairs). Facebook event here.

The Richter Collective’s Post Christmas Party with The Richter Christmas Party with BATS, Not Squares (Dublin-Album Launch), Herv (Richter Rave Set), Enemies, Jogging, Logikparty and The Continuous Battle Of Order. Facebook event here.

Note: old poster. Ignore date.

 

SATURDAY JAN 15:

Bohs Spirit of 77 Supporters Crew proudly present Bail out Bohs! featuring Easpa Measa, Roosky, Moutpiece, Cruibin and Found on The Floor. €7. 8pm – 12:30am. Facebook event here.

Dublin’s Sleepless Soul Nights annual start to the year with classics from the Twisted Wheel, Golden Torch, Wigan Casino and more. Basement, Good Bits, Store Street.

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