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Sign of the times

Posted in Miscellaneous on May 9, 2011| 11 Comments »

Heading into town today I came across this sight outside the American embassy on Ballsbridge. Dozens and dozens of young adults queuing up for their Visa interview. Depressing.

Queue outside U.S. embassy. 9 May 2011. (c) Jay Carax

I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t know someone close who has moved away or is planning on doing so too. Over the weekend, I went to two going away drinks of close friends of mine. Both were leaving for the summer at lack of job opportunities in the city. One to Berlin, the other to South America.

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We’re At

Posted in Events, Miscellaneous, tagged , , , on May 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

For those who aren’t sure what “We’re At…” actually is, I’ll yoink the following sentence from their Facebook as it succinctly sums them up; “We’re At…” is an exciting new community media initiative about to take part in the heart of Temple Bar. Using a fully digital, state of the art pop up TV studio in a shop front at 5 Scarlett Row, Dublin Community TV is going to throw itself into covering the roaring arts and culture festival circuit that takes over the city during the summer months.”

Come celebrate the launch of We're At....

To celebrate the launch of the show, the crew of “We’re At…” are  teaming up with the IDGTF to bring you an early evening of performances from some of the star performers at this years festival.

Its a once off event, and a chance to have a gander at what’s going on at the IDGTF. Looks like a great evening, I’ve taken quite a liking to O’Byrnes, great pints of Guinness for €4 on the button, can’t go wrong. Might see yiz there.

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After she has a pint in Fairview, she’s going to stay in a Hotel down in NAMAland on the docks.

Posted in Miscellaneous on May 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

These HUGE posters are hanging out the front of The Gibson Hotel down by The Point, with ‘Welcome To Ireland’ above them. On Facebook, Joe and Joanna Public are giving out yards.

Update: 00:40. Now they’re denying they’ve any role in the whole thing.

Update 15:30 5/5: “The gibson hotel would like to confirm that the banners placed in front of the hotel building at the Point Village were placed there by Crosbie Property, the owners of the development. Crosbie Property do not operate the hotel. The banners have now been removed.”

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Have you still kept some of your 90s rave gear?

Posted in Events, Miscellaneous on May 3, 2011| 3 Comments »

If so, Curleysue wants to borrow them for a production of Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy at the T@36 Theatre in The Teachers Club later this month.

Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh, is set in Edinburgh against the backdrop of the early 90’s rave scene. Our members and our audience will be familiar with Welsh’s other works, in particular ‘Trainspotting’ which achieved great success and depicted heroin addiction. The subject matter of the play, the language used and many …of the scenes presented new challenges for our entire team and provided an excellent opportunity for those on and off stage to develop their skills.

For me, I’ve always had a soft spot for the music and ethos of the rave culture. The high energy, anthemic music was pretty much all I listened to at the time. The friendly vibes and dancing contrasted with the dark and introspection of the grunge sceneof the time. However there was a dark subculture within that scene. Making it both an uplifting and tragic cultural background for the story. – Director Dave McGowan

The play runs from the 17th to the 21st of May. Doors open at 7.30 and the play begins at 8 sharp!

Tickets are only available online at nodrama.eventbrite.com. More info on Facebook here.

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Wexford Street fire

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Pic: Lynsey Kiely

Four people were pulled from burning flats on Dublin’s Wexford Street early today. The blaze erupted on the first floor above Eddie Rocket’s City Diner at 4.15am.

It’s not the first time there’s been a late night fire on the street. Remember the panic that went with the fire in the Village nightclub back in March 2008?

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East is East

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 21, 2011| 10 Comments »

Finally a bit of good news for the city. Business groups, traders and locals are coming together with the idea of turning East Parnell Street, which runs from the top of O’Connell Street to Gardiner Street, into Dublin’s Oriental Quarter.

The Dublin Civic Trust will publish a study on Parnell Street next month which is the third in its series — the first two being on Capel Street and Thomas Street.

Widened footpaths, redesigned shop fronts, outdoor seating for restaurants, and more street lighting are all being recommended for the new eating quarter. – Herald

Best of luck to all involved.

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We love you!

Posted in Events, Miscellaneous, tagged , , , , on April 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Its not too often you get posts on here lauding non-LOI football. If anything, the content of our football related articles are overtly critical (and rightly so) of a nation of barstoolers who do their best to ignore teams on their own island. Whoso could begrudge the three of us so for having an interest in a foreign team, not across the narrow strip of water that divides us from “the mainland” but across the expanse of Europe to Hamburg and their “second” team, St. Pauli.

The thing is with St. Pauli, you aren’t just lending your support to an adopted team that have nothing got to to with you. You are adopting a code of beliefs. St. Pauli stand for everything we on CHTM! stand for – We are vehemently anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. If you haven’t gotten that from our posts hither to now well… now you know. Two out of the three of us have made it to games this season and have made some great contacts and friends across there, some closer than others and for different reasons.

Dont expect this madness, just something close.

So, with us having good friends in the St. Pauli Supporters Club, Dublin, we have found out that their youth team is partaking in an invitational tournament at the bequest of Kevin’s Boys, programme as follows:

VENUE:  ST KEVINS BOYS CLUB, SHANOWEN ROAD, DUBLIN 9

FRIDAY APRIL 22nd

11.00am           Group 1                       St Kevins Boys Club      v   Brondby  I F
12.30pm          Group 2                       West Bromwich Albion  v  St Pauli
5.00pm            Group 1                       Brondby I F                     v  Sunderland  AFC
6.30pm            Group 2                       St Pauli                              v  Arsenal F C

SATURDAY APRIL 23rd  

11.00am           Group 1                       St Kevins Boys Club       v        Sunderland AFC
12.30pm          Group 2                       Arsenal F C                     v       West Bromwich Albion
5.00pm            Semi Final                    Winner Group 1              v     Runner Up Group 2
6.30pm            Semi Final                    Winner Group 2              v    Runner Up Group 1

SUNDAY APRIL 24th  

11.00am           5th & 6th Place Play Off                3rd place Group 1   v  3rd place Group 2
12.30pm          3rd & 4th Place Play Off            Beaten semi finalists 1 v Beaten semi finalists 2
1.45pm            Exhibition game by St Kevins Boys Under 6 Development Squad (15 mins)

TOURNAMENT FINAL

KICK OFF 2.15pm.

PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES

The plan is for us to make it out to the WBA vs. St. Pauli game on Friday morning, as myself and DFallon are heading off to (albeit) separate LOI games Friday afternoon, him to Derry, myself to Sligo and JayCarax off to the Good Friday Wicklow Wander.

Don’t forget though, before all that madness, there is the monthly Sounds of Resistance gig in O’Byrnes on Capel / Bolton Street that you can most likely find the three of us at; look for the lads in the corner sipping Guinness and looking shifty.

Come to this!

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In your own time Mannix.

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 18, 2011| 5 Comments »

Temple Bar earlier on today.

Following a general election, a party/candidate must remove posters within a seven day period. After that date, an on-the-spot fine of €150 is issued by your local authority in respect of each offence. Your local authority will remove the poster as the fine is issued. If a party/candidate has been issued with a fine and refuses to pay, they can be prosecuted in the District Court by your local authority to enforce payment.

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Article in Red Pepper (UK) on radical Dublin.

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 9, 2011| 1 Comment »

If you’re over on the mainland (controversial) I’ve an article in the latest Red Pepper Magazine which looks at some more unusual sites around Dublin, and some of the radical history of the capital.

Here in Dublin, rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.

That image, of Ajaj Chopra from the International Monetary Fund passing the shell of Anglo Irish Bank on Stephens’ Green, no doubt gave the impression that Dublin was closed for business.

The They Are Us project from Damien Dempsey and Maser, the Seomra Spraoi social centre, the bullet holes of the 1916 insurrection, a favourite watering hole (The Hop House, if you’re wondering) and more besides feature.

Red Pepper are online here.

Thanks to Mark for pointing out on our Facebook that you can normally pick this up in Books Upstairs opposite Trinity.

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History Ireland Hedge School: No God and two Saint Patrick’s.

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »

While a certain Myles na Gopaleen joked of ‘no God and two Saint Patrick’s’, the brother once heard otherwise:

“The brother met an oul fella below in Wikela town and yer man said straight out of that there was no Saint Patrick and that the whole yarn was invented be Strongbow or somebody. The brother asked him, if that was true, how come there was no snakes in Ireland? Know what th’oul fella done? Laughed in the brother’s face.”

We take any chance to post Myles here of course.

Anyway, here is a video of the latest History Ireland Hedge School, at the National Library on Kildare Street. I didn’t make this one with work commitments, but I was at the prior Hedge School which dealt with ‘1916 and all that’ and what the decade of centenaries ahead of us means. The National Library is a great venue for discussions like the Hedge School’s.

The panel for this one were: Elva Johnston (UCD), Canon Adrian Empey (Church of Ireland Theological College), Mike Cronin (Boston College) and Eamon Delaney (Sunday Independent). Some of you would have caught Delaney at the Hedge School we were involved with in Phibsborough, which examined the punk and new wave scene of 1970’s and 80’s Dublin. Tommy Graham, editor of the magazine, oversaw the discussion.

From a discussion on neutrality in a Laois tent to the more comfortable National Library, the Hedge Schools are a great attempt to bring historical debate into more popular and common settings than is the norm.

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Oliver St. John Gogarty and The Phoenix.

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 5, 2011| 2 Comments »

I mentioned on here before than I’m trying to get to grips with Ulysses at the minute. One of the things I’ve been doing too is reading into some of the people who greatly influenced the work, such as Oliver St. John Gogarty. A writer of great renown, Gogarty (or Buck Mulligan to Ulysses readers) was also a Senator in the Free State administration.

I’ve been getting to grips with Buck through Ulick O’Connor’s excellent biography Oliver St.John Gogarty. He strikes me as a remarkably complex character, but one with a great wit. I was struck by a great comment in the Senate around the Wild Birds Protection Bill, 1929.

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My journey through Ulysses, for anyone who is curious, is going well. I expect to be dressed like this by Bloomsday.

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Metro North (if it ever goes ahead) will apparently look like this.

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 3, 2011| 2 Comments »

I remember having a good go at the Metro North on here before, wondering if the project was now little beyond a pipe-dream.

I noticed the official Facebook page for the project was recently updated with this graphic showing the travel distance involved on the line:

There is plenty of debate around the project of course. Anyone with a keen eye will have noticed that Carroll’s gift shop in particular seem firmly opposed to the Metro project, along with other businesses along Westmoreland Street who have been displaying anti-Metro North posters prominently in recent years.

The graphics below are designed to show what the Metro service will look like. What do you think? Of course, the story of King Dan and Big Jim needing to find new homes for the construction period is an aspect I’m not too crazy about…..

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