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Archive for March, 2011

We… well I, was thinking about  launching an April Fools prank on here tomorrow to see how far it would spread (if it spread at all,) but these things rarely work well, and if they do, its the elaborate ones that do and I’m far too hungry to think of one of those. It got [...]

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Who says Student Union elections can’t be fun? This one comes from IADT. context,if you’ve been living under a rock.

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MylesDay Timetable.

The people behind MylesDay have presented their schedule for events tomorrow in The Palace bar. I’ll be there until about 6pm, when I will depart for the Dublin Derby between Dublin 7 and Dublin 8. Drop in. The Myles Day team is delighted to present the schedule for the inaugural MylesDay event, to be held [...]

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Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with [...]

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The Vandals.

This looks interesting. All City celebrates some of the most (in)famous graffiti artists from the island with a two day exhibition at Block T in Smithfield. It opens on Good Friday, and it’s Bring Your Own Booze. I’ll hopefully be in Derry that night for Saint Patrick’s Athletic versus Derry City, but I’ll catch it [...]

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I Just Started Ulysses.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. And so it begins….. Am I mad? I don’t know. Why I’ve not challenged myself to read it yet, again I don’t know. Many great Dublin characters are reflected in the work, and [...]

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‘Old City, New Dreams’

Four weeks of debate, music, film and comedy for Dubliners in landmark Dublin bars, followed by one free drink for all attendees courtesy of Diageo Ireland and Guinness. For your FREE tickets email paul@thedubliner.ie with the name of the event and the number of tickets you request. Thursdays = 4. Talks = 8. Venues = [...]

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This ad is taken from the K.Coy 3rd Battallion IRA reunion dinner in Clery’s in March of 1947. It is for the barbershop of James Mallon. James Mallon, who was born in the north, had a hairdressing business in Eden Quay prior to becoming involved in the republican movement upon joining the Irish Volunteers in [...]

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Bohs versus Rovers. Arguably the most talked about fixture in the League of Ireland calender; Dublin’s El Classico comes but four times a year. While this is a huge fixture, not least for fans of both teams, there is one game that outshines even this and one we don’t experience too often any more. (Some [...]

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….I have no comment on this video either way. I don’t know the ins and outs of the matter at all. I was glued to the monitor (that’s the 2011 way of saying ‘glued to the telly’) watching this but. It’s some street theatre connecting the CACI company who are involved in the census to [...]

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Apparently, the South William Street VVIP Awards are a real thing. They’re like, totally a joke, but they actually happen in a really ironic way. Like every aspect of Irish life (RTE, the Dáil, South William Street itself) it’s all very incestuous, and Fade Street (the longest running corporate advertisement ever on Irish telly?) forces [...]

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In his excellent and highly entertaining history of the city of Dublin published in 1861, J.T Gilbert wrote of the arrival of George Frideric Handel to Dublin: Handel, driven by ‘the goddess of dulness to “the Hibernian shore,” arrived in Dublin on the 18th of November, 1741, six weeks after the opening of the Music [...]

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