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Two gigs that yours truly will be playing this weekend.

Friday with the legendary Danny Red, Soundman Soro (Worries Outernational) and Punky Reggae Party DJs.
You can get in for €5 by writing ‘Irish Moss Records’ on the Facebook event here. Recent interview with the The Dirty Dubsters with Bodytonic here.

Twisted Pepper

Saturday down with the Reggae Fever session in Sweeneys.

Reggae Fever

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Good news folks. Lots of people missed out on ‘The Enigma Of Frank Ryan’ shown as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival last week, myself included. We posted notice to our Facebook page of a planned second screening in the IFI set for this Sunday due to demand, and thankfully History Ireland have got involved and are organising a Hedge School for just after the event in Filmbase. The blurb below comes from History Ireland directly.

There will be a 2nd screening of Desmond Bell’s ‘The Enigma of Frank Ryan’ (Jameson Dublin Int. Film Festival) in the IFI, Eustace St. @ 12 noon Sun 26 Feb, followed by a History Ireland Hedge School @ 2pm in Filmbase, Curved Street (across the street from the IFI), with Fearghal McGarry, Brian Hanley, Leeann Lane & David O’Donoghue. Screening already 50% booked up. Should be a lively session!

As ever, I’ll be recording the Hedge School and it will be available from the History Ireland website and here on Come Here To Me soon after the event.

Interestingly, Frank Ryan has already featured in a History Ireland Hedge School, coming up on several occasions at the ‘Animal Gangs’ Hedge School for which I was a contributer. You can listen to that Hedge School by clicking here.

Frank Ryan would write to the national media complaining of the conduct of the ‘Animal Gang’ and other “defenders of faith and morals” in attacking the Republican Congress to which he was affiliated.

Ryan of course is a controversial figure today, still a hero of many republican-socialists though questioned by some for his actions in Berlin. The docudrama ‘The Enigma of Frank Ryan’ focuses primarily on Ryan in Berlin and examines his actions there during the second World War. There is a review of the work available from The Irish Story who got along to the first screening, and you can read it here.

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On another note entirely, what a brilliant name Gallery Zozimus is! A nice nod to the old!

The image above comes from ‘Memoir Of Zozimus’, available to read on the excellent Chapters of Dublin site.

We’ve had photos of work by many of the artists involved in this exhibition on the site in the past, but I thought I’d dig up my favourite snap which is this one I took of Littleman’s ‘tribute’ to Bertie Ahern.

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Poster Fish Promotions presents “The Harder They Come” film screening at 8pm at King7 on Capel St. followed by a night of Ska, Oi!, Soul and Reggae with the very best of Dublin ska DJs. Admission €5 before 11pm, €8 after.

Full details on Facebook here.

Poster - KS

In the Twisted Pepper, Surge are hosting their third take over which features Manchester’s Andy Stott, Slowburnm The Candidates and the Punky Reggae Party in the cafe. Tickets €10 or €12 on the door.

Full details on Facebook here.

Poster - Surge

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Great line up, great cause ( the Gypsies Trust.)

Line-up: Clash Jam Wallop, The Lee Harveys, Found On The Floor and Complan. €10, 8pm doors.

Poster by Tommy Rash

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The most popular posting in the history of Come Here To Me?

It was the story of Broombridge train station, the sheer state of the place, and the campaign for Broombridge to win the Irish Rail station of the year. There was just something incredibly Irish about Irish Rail even asking ‘hey, which of our stations do you think is the best?’ as opposed to ‘which stations really need a lick of paint?’

At the time we wrote:

Anyone who has been through Broombridge station will know it is beyond the words ‘awful kip’, a station neglected while those around her have been modernised, she continues to crumble, the very station sign telling you where you are difficult to read.

Brrombridge winning the ‘Best Station’ award would draw some attention to the sheer state of the place, and be the best coup for a public vote campaign since the BBC had to award the Wolfe Tones the best song of the last century

It emerged out of a Facebook campaign which caught our attention, and the story seemed to grow legs from there, with our original story posted by Broadsheet.ie and Colm O’Rourke, the man behind the Facebook campaign, interviewed by the Irish Daily Mail.

Thousands of you read the piece, but more importantly a very sizable chunk of you went on to visit the Irish Rail website and vote for Broombridge, something you can still do and should still do by clicking here.

Today I came home to an e-mail from Come Here To Me reader Ado with some great news regarding Iarnród Éireann:

Iarnrod Eireann today started cleaning up the Broombridge train station, new paintwork, signs, markings etc.., Nothing major but they are reacting to the email voting campaign. Well done to all involved.

He went on to note below:

The fact is we, the local Community Council, were informed by IE management in December that no upgrade was planned for Broombridge due to vandalism. A pathetic reason for abandoning our station. It’s IE’s duty to secure their property and maintain it to the same standards of every other station.

Nothing major indeed, but it is a start. Historically overlooked, even during times of renovation, it’s great that thousands of people have taken the time to register their protest with Irish Rail over the sheer state of Broombridge. For many Dubliners, Broombridge is the local train station remember. It’s just not up to scratch.

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