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GhostNotes & A Suite For Ma Duke Screening: Block T (24/3)

Posted in Events, Photography on March 23, 2011| 1 Comment »

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To round off the Ghost Notes exhibition we have decided to screen A Suite for Ma Duke from the Timeless Series in Block T this Thursday @ 8pm.

If you would like to attend please email info@choicecuts.com to reserve your place as it is limited to approx 100 for this viewing. B+ will be in attendance to answer any questions about the screening. Please title your email with A Suite for Ma Dukes in the subject bar and how many places you would like to reserve. This will be screened on a high quality sound system for maximum enjoyment! – Choice Cuts

If your around this Thursday, rock down to Block T for a film showing, a fantastic photo exhibition and (if your lucky) a free drink or two.

It’s your final chance to check out Limerick born Brian Cross’ (aka B+) fantastic photo exhibition ‘GhostNotes’.

Simon Judge summed up B+’s legacy better than I ever could:

“Depending on your point of entry into hip-hop, there is a good chance you own a record, or at least a magazine, that Limerick-born photographer Brian Cross, aka B+, shot the cover of. Having lived and worked in LA since the early 90s, B+ has established himself as the go-to guy for just about every MC, DJ, and record label of note. Since graduating from NCAD in 1989, he has fleetingly visited Ireland, so it is with much expectation that the big man shows his work in Dublin.”

 

Since 1993, B+ has a worked with over 100 artists in hip-hop business including Mos Def, Rza, Cappadonna, Q-Tip, Eazy E, Jurrassic 5, Dialated Peoples, DJ Shadow, Company Flow, Blackalicious, South Central Cartel, Warren G, Yusef Lateef, Yesterdays New Quintet and Damian Marley.

Front cover of DJ Shadow's 1996 debut album 'Entroducing'. The image was taken by Irish photographer B+ (aka Brian Cross)

Front cover of DJ Shadow's 1996 debut album 'Entroducing'. The image was taken by Irish photographer B+ (aka Brian Cross)

 

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Derelict Dublin

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on March 21, 2011| 2 Comments »

© Dublin City Council. Mary's Lane. Derelict Dublin, 1913

Derelict Dublin 1913 (Dublin City Council)

(c) Rogan's Pics (Flickr user). Dublin 2011.

Derelict Dublin 2011. (Flickr Group)

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Some Snaps of Paddy’s Day and Beyond

Posted in Photography, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 20, 2011| 1 Comment »

The Dublin Fire Brigade Pipe Band. Brilliant, as always.

Big Jim Larkin, outside Dublin Castle. The Sun made for a beautiful day.

Always come prepared!

Paddy's Day & Buckfast. Chance of a fist fight? With a t-shirt like this, most likely.

Banama Republic surely!!

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Coffee Booth on O’Connell Street

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on March 15, 2011| 12 Comments »

date unknown.'Coffee Booth', O'Connell St. Credit to Valerie Kennedy for uploading onto Facebook

This is an unusual snap of a long demolished structure on O’Connell Street.

The photo was described, when uploaded onto Facebook, as showing a taxi shelter but I’m not so sure. If you look carefully, you can see the words ‘Coffee Booth’ on the window. Judging that it dates from the early half of the 20th century, I’m surprised that both coffee and coffee kiosks were in operation that far back.

Update: I think we were both right. The structure is a “coffee booth” used by the taximen whose rank was beside it. In his Dublin Diary, Stanisluas Joyce, James’ brother, describes on page 61 that he ‘like(s) the City at night, wide O’Connell Street (I have O’Connell blood in me and an O’Connell face. … nimbling quietly along, the horse walking, without noise but for an occasional shout of laughter from the cabman’s coffee booth”

If there was any doubt that this wasn’t Dublin, those bollards on the left can be seen as certain proof.

(c) GrahamH

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A great find

Posted in Football Articles, Miscellaneous, Photography, Social History, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2011| 2 Comments »

I always love venturing into the Secret Book and Record Store on Wicklow Street as it has produced some absolute gems for me down through the years. When Mero was running the record side of things, I’d make the trip up from beyond the Pale and shuffle nervously up to the counter with whatever zine or 7″ or god forbid TAPE that I liked the look of. But as I grew, Mero’s gave way to Freebird, and punk moved across to the late Red Ink at Central Bank, and my interest in this place moved to the books.

The Secret Book and Record Store

So, when I got a text from JayCarax last week saying there was a box of League of Ireland programmes going cheap, I jumped at the chance. I eventually got in on Sunday afternoon on nipped in and the result can be seen below- €20 for 27 programmes, mainly Bohs but a few Shels as well, spanning from 1992 – 2004. Twelve short years, but a lifetime in this League. Paul Osam to Peter Eccles, Gino Lawless to Avery John all feature. Owen Heary, Pat Fenlon and Stuart Byrne seem to appear ageless, bouncing back and forth between clubs and Tony Cousins appears, looking, well, pretty much exactly like he does now. Shels were a big club, and Bohs made a profit one season. Crazy times indeed.

27 programmes for a score? A steal.

I’ll scan some of the more interesting pages up over the weekend; I’ll most likely need a repetitive and non- strenuous chore to ease my Paddy’s Day hangover away so what better to kill two birds with the one stone.

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Grafton St. and The Green

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on March 10, 2011| 1 Comment »

Some more interesting images from the Corbis site, this time of Grafton Street and the St. Stephens Green area.

How odd does Grafton Street look with sidewalks.

Grafton Street (c. 1890). ©Sean Sexton Collection/CORBIS

The second shop from the left is J.M. Barnardo & Sons furriers. You can just about read their sign above their awning. The shop is still there to this day.

Very bottom of Grafton St., 19th c. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

What strikes me is so little has changed to the overall environment, the only thing really being the tram lines.

Nassau Street, facing bottom of Grafton St, 1926. © E.O. Hoppé/CORBIS

So, it looks like there’s been a taxi rank of some description in that same spot for 140+ years!

St. Stephens Green (c. 1870). ©Sean Sexton Collection/CORBIS

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Stars & Stripes and smiling striplings

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on March 9, 2011| 13 Comments »

What on earth is going on in this picture? Anyone want to hazard a guess?

Are they celebrating the Fourth of July?
Honouring Dev’s American roots?
Cheering on the Super Bowl??

Dublin, "Children Sitting in the Street". Date unknown. © Bettmann/CORBIS

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Some images of Saint Werburgh’s Church.

Posted in Dublin History, Photography, Social History on March 8, 2011| 3 Comments »

I did a brief post on Saint Werburgh’s Church (On Werburgh Street, opposite Burdocks) here before, but today I came across these images I’d taken of the church late last year and thought them worth sharing.

Saint Werburgh’s Church has, most unfortunately, fallen on hard times. It is difficult to disagree with the observations of Fiona Gartland of The Irish Times who noted in an August 2009 article for the paper that paint work inside the church was cracked and peeling, plaster work crumbling and that stucco detail in the church was badly in need of repair. In the article, the Dean of Christ Church the Very Rev. Derek Dunne noted that the once glorious church had “…been neglected for decades” and that “Saint Werburgh’s is not ours, it is in the ownership of Dublin. The work needs to be done, it is almost too late.”

Thankfully, there is a massive restoration currently underway at Saint Werburgh’s. The small church is now closed to the public, with sections of it completely off-limits during the restoration. Yet one must feel a sense of relief that the final resting place of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and indeed the spot were Jonathan Swift was baptised, finally seems safe for the long-term future.

I thought it worth sharing some pictures of one of my favourite buildings in the capital. Its beautiful sandstone facade is unlike anything else in the city, and I often admire Saint Werburgh’s from the upper-floor of the Lord Edward across the road! As good a spot as any…

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Real Plan. Better Future. With the IMF.

Posted in Photography, Politics, tagged , , , on February 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Mubarak standing for Fianna Fáil? Credit to Joycer for the pic.

See: http://www.politics.ie/political-humour/151838-mubarak-dual-citizen-stand-fianna-fail.html

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A Vote for Labour…

Posted in Miscellaneous, Photography, tagged , , on February 23, 2011| 4 Comments »

From the people that brought you this:

Mary Mediatrix, our favourite Dublin shop

I now give you this:

Any vote for Labour is a...

I wonder if the people who run this shop know of the existence of the ULA. God forbid if that lot ever got in…

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A few quick snaps

Posted in Photography, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 17, 2011| 7 Comments »

Out of boredom and/or chronic procrastination (bills to pay, things to sort out,) I went for a stroll around the city this evening with the camera; its surprising the things you see in this city that you don’t notice unless you’re looking for them. Below is Georges Street Arcade, the place where I acquired my first studded belt, in my mind, it made me punx and I still wear it to this day, ill fitting as it is.

The Arcade- like diving into the past

Now you’d think that our comrades in Fade Street would flock to Dylan Haskins like scenesters to an overpriced Dubstep night in The Academy but not so. They’re all voting our Mannix.

Fade Street are voting Mannix

Just another victim, Waterstones bookshop closed it’s doors for the last time a couple of weeks back with the loss of 46 jobs. It wasn’t somewhere I shopped too often, I prefer Chapters myself but a pity all the same.

And another one bites the dust... Waterstones

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