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Stumbled across this recently.
As for what it’s all about, re-dress.ie is over here.
WHO
Re-dress was set up in 2008 by
Rosie O Reilly, Kellie Dalton and Kate Nolan.WHAT
The Re-dress Better Fashion Initiative is an organisation dedicated to promoting better fashion practice.
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Ever so slightly unsettling this, not least because of the background music, Dublin Dilettante from the ever deadly Circumlimina blog gives us a look at what we might expect from a decade of “EU/IMF rule under Labour, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil (in whatever permutation.)” Scary to say the least!
“And remember, we’re all in this together.”
Cheers to Barra for the heads up.
The Republic of IMF, from thejournal.ie
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Recently, we set up this Facebook group in response to the rumours surrounding the future of the popular and essential Dublin Bus Nitelink service.
Earlier today there was an interesting comment left by Labour Cllr. Cian O’Callaghan which thankfully answered a few questions, yet created a few more:
I got confirmation from Ray Coyne of Dublin Bus last Friday that Dublin Bus are not planning to discontinue the nitelinks. However they are planning to reduce the service and are looking at merging some routes and possibly reducing the frequency of service!
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Oh my god.
This comes via Cedar Lounge Revolution. (Though I see they’ve given the tip of the hat in the direction of Maman Poulet)
Can you listen to it the whole way through? Labour’s Dublin South Central candidate has a horse outside.
They’re going to need an MP3 section over on the Irish Election Literature Blog soon. Who could forget ‘VOTE ALAN KELLY’ during the last European Elections?
Rest Outside – Michael Conaghan by Maman Poulet
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"The Liberator"
This is a great video from Albert Hooi showing the hard work involved in setting up the recent They Are Us exhibition from Damien Dempsey and Maser at Smithfield. It shows the completion of the excellent James Connolly piece, my favourite artistic take on Connolly since Harry Kernoff’s great 1935 effort.
Excellent stuff. Well done to all involved.
A few images and a brief report from the launch night of the exhibition can be found over here.
Getting there at 5.15 or so, we were well ahead of time and ended up carrying sambos up the stairs with a woman who told us “you’s will get your reward in the next life lads”.
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I would. Distributed yesterday at the top of Grafton Street by members of the Shell to Sea campaign, the €540 billion euro note is creating quite a stir. I’ve about ten in my wallet, which makes me feel rich.
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"Gis them sweets young fella."
Captain Moonlight’s excellent ode to the Fianna Fail candidate deserves a look. It’s THE Fianna Fail candidate, watch the video. You know this man. He says things like “the old IRA” and “history will be kind to Bertie, even if nobody on your street will.”
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While walking down Dame Street over the weekend, I was shocked to see that Dublin favourite Kingsland chinese restaurant had gone. In its place was a much more gaudy looking establishment called KingCharlies.
A quick google search led me to finding out that it actually closed back in May 2009!
Picture: infomatique (flickr)
Kingsland was a real Dublin institution. I’ve been trying to find out when it actually opened. The newspaper clip below shows that they opened another branch in Dalkey in 1984, so I guess the Dame Street restaurant dates back to at least the early 1980s? I’ve made the necessary correction on my list of Dublin’s oldest restaurants that are still open.
(c) The Irish Times. Tuesday, March 13, 1984.
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[murmur] is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations. We collect and make accessible people’s personal histories and anecdotes about the places in their neighborhoods that are important to them.
Murmur Dublin, another fantastic website/idea, in similar vein to the Story Map website which we covered earlier. You can listen to all the stories online.
Explore [murmur] Dublin Docklands:
- Go for a walk: bring your mobile phone, and head for the green ears on the map.
- Find the green ear, and call the number on it.
- Enter the code on the sign to hear people’s stories about the place where you’re standing.
Murmour Dublin
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Some lols here to brighten up your wet, Tuesday morning. Props to Baz.
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….do it correctly.
Recently, we had this piece looking at a wonderful new piece of graffiti from Dublin based street artist ADW at Suir Road Bridge. The piece was removed after only a couple of hours.
Freda, a friend of ours whose photos frequently end up on the blog, popped up recently to photograph the damage. She’s been documenting Dublin street art for years now, building up impressive photo albums showing the development of the art form in the capital. I’m hoping in time she’ll join the WordPress world.
Anyway, when she got up there, this is what she found:
Half a heart.
What’s the point?
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