Father Theobold Mathew, The Apostle of Temperance
Bishop John Buckley
Interview on Cork's Fr Mathew Statue with Bishop John Buckley
Launch of 'The Statue', 10 October 2014
Short film played at the launch of 'The Statue', 10 October 2014 in Cork City Libraries
Garden Of Rememberance
The Garden of Rememberance, designed by Daithí P. Hanly, honours the memory of all those who gave their lives for Irish Freedom.
The Children of Lir sculpture is an impressive focal point in the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square. It was designed by Oisin Kelly, cast in the Marinelli Foundry in Florence and unveiled in 1966. It symbolises that people are often changed utterly by significant events (in this case the Easter Rising of 1916). The design is obviously based on the ancient legend of King Lir's children who were changed into swans.
President Eamon de Valera opened the Garden of Remembrance on Easter Monday 1966, the golden jubilee of the 1916 Rising. The Garden, designed by Daithí P. Hanly, honours the memory of all those who gave their lives for Irish Freedom. The floor of the sunken pool displays a mosaic pattern of blue green waves interspersed with ancient weaponry. The spears are shown broken following the Celtic custom of throwing weapons into rivers and lakes as offerings to the gods when hostilities ended.
JFK in Cork
In June 1963 JFK visited Cork. This brief piece of footage catches a glimpse of President Kennedy briefly as he passes Fr Matthew's Statue on St Patrick's Street. The cameraman (I presume Michael O'Sullivan) then makes his way to the east end of the South Mall to film again before the President's arrival at the city hall.
From the archive of MJ O'Sullivan (Late of Casey's Cross, Togher)
2014 St. Patrick's Day -- Idiot Stuck on O'Connell Street Statue before Parade
This guy (and his mate) climbed the statue to get a better view then decided there wasn't enough room up there. Upon deciding to climb down, he discovered that it was easier said than done! It was a bit of entertainment before the parade started!
jennie o'sullivan
Jennie O'Sullivan gives her thoughts on The Statue
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Wednesday night catechism class on The Traditional Catholic faith by Monsignor Perez.
Text is This is the Faith by Canon Francis Ripley
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Abbey of Gethsemani Fr Michael and the Bees
Fr. Michael Casagram has been a monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani for 54 years. During that time, he has been of service to the monastery in many, many ways, most recently as Prior of the Abbey, and as head of the fudge department. Through it all, however, he has also been our beekeeper. His hives produce fresh honey for the monks year after year. The honey goes on toast, gets mixed with peanut butter, is put in tea and coffee, is used in cooking, and so on. Here he talks about how the bees have opened his eyes to God's operation in the world and their similarity to a monastic community.
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Fr Dermot Lynch gives his thoughts on The Statue
Reasons to Support rabble: Terry Fagan Of The North Inner City Folklore Project
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Terry Fagan, of Dublin's North Inner City Folklore Project is famed for his efforts to protect and cherish the history of the famous Monto area of our city.
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rabble is a non-profit newspaper from the city's underground. It's collectively and independently run by volunteers. Since its inception, rabble has created a space for the passionate telling of truth, muckraking journalism and well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate authority.
Those involved know each other from alternative media and street mobilisations, from raves, gigs and the football terraces, or by just living in the village that is Dublin.
We range from people living and raising their families in the city, to community and political activists, to artists, messers and mischief-makers.
We weren't sure if a publication like this would work, if the city would want us, if anyone would care. But the response since has been immense. Dublin didn't just get rabble, Galway, Limerick, Cork, Belfast and far beyond did too. You've told us what you like and what you want: more culture, more investigative pieces and more razor-sharp satire.
Each of our issues have been bigger and bolder. We increased our page count and leapt up to 10,000 copies for issue five. That's a direct response to public demand. We also work online to pump out news and views that consistently challenge the orthodoxies of austerity.
We want to continue offering an alternative look at Ireland after the boom and help contribute to the popular imagination of what's possible. Too many naively celebrate the creative side of the recession and utter non-committal grumbles about how we got here. rabble has no qualms about what side of the fence we sit on.
As some shower once said, there's a lot done, more to do. Now, we need you to support us and ensure the survival of the project as a print entity into the future. Running a magazine through fundraising gigs and constant hustle has its charm - but it is not a sustainable model. We reckon Ireland can sustain a reader funded free newspaper. One that uses crowdfunding to redefine the limits of what radical publishing looks like. We want to continue offering a vital space for original illustration, photography, journalism, politics and culture.
rabble works best in hard copy, it lends credibility and value to our work in a culture of online rapid fire disposability. Equally, our organic distribution network allows the project to be constantly discovered by people outside our own online echo chambers.
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Yes, of course - we'll still have the odd ruckus of a gig - but this time just for the lulz.
Martin Folan Exhibition Limerick June 2015
This Rough Diamond: Martin Folan Works at the Sailors' Home Limerick Opening June 18th 2015.
00.00-01.20 Crowd Arrives
01.20-13.50 Mick O'Dea Opening Speech
13.50-19.11 Marina (Martins Daughter) Thanks
19.11-35.25 Steve Lally Storyteller
35.25-51.08 Walk through the exhibition to music Martin liked
Tracklisting:-
1. Durutti Column: Sketch for summer
2. Talking Heads: Listening wind
3. Japan: The experience of swimming
4. Neil Diamond: Song song blue
Martin Folan was educated at the National College of Art & Design (Sculpture) and Limerick School of Art & Design (Masters Degree in Fine Art). His solo shows include exhibitions at the Belltable Arts Centre, Butler Gallery, Cúirt International Poetry Festival, ILAC Shopping Centre, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Nun’s Island Arts Centre, Orchard Gallery, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, Triskel Arts Centre, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, P.S.1, New York and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown. Group shows include E.V.A.+, Independent Artists, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Group 688, and An Eire of the Senses in Shanghai. Martin won the Guinness Peat Aviation Award and was the recipient of the first Ireland/America Art Exchange Fellowship to P.S.1 Studios in New York. He was subsequently awarded fellowships by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and by the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities. A visual artist unique in the Irish tradition, Martin was also a community, performance and public artist who poured his energy into the places and spaces he occupied. He was a teacher and writer and those he worked with, like his house, studio, and garden in Wolfe Tone Street, will always bear his mark. Sadly Martin passed away in June 2014. He is fondly remembered by family, friends and associates.
An Irish World War II Hero
Hugh O'Flaherty CBE (28 February 1898 – 30 October 1963), was an Irish Catholic priest and senior official of the Roman Curia, and significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism. During World War II, the monsignor was responsible for saving 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews. His ability to evade the traps set by the German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), earned O'Flaherty the nickname The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican. - Wikipedia.
John the Martyr
This song is about my great great great great great grandfather, John Dahill, who was hanged in 1798 during the United Irishmen uprising. He was hanged with two other men, Florence McCarthy and Nicholas Burke, and the magistrate who sentenced them let the bodies hang for a week as a warning. The same magistrate was haunted by a ghost that took the form of a white rabbit, and was advised by his minister, in whom he confided, that he must give the men a proper burial. So John Dahill, as well as his father Garrett who died three weeks later of grief, was buried in the magistrate's own cill (churchyard) in Rathcormac. Since my father, CDR Edward E. Dahill III, had exhaustively researched the genealogy of the affair and had been asked by the Cork City Council to preside over a 1998 bicentennial commemoration of the gravesite, I buried him here as well in the family grave a few years ago.
Every time that I see snowshoe hares (which are white) I think of that white rabbit.
If you have wax in your ears and cannot understand the lyrics but wish to know them, here they are:
Hang me from an oak tree!
Hang me from an oak tree!
Let my body
Hang for a week
Till my spirit
Haunts your dreams
Hang me from an oak tree!
Hang me from an oak tree!
Sell my soul
For ten pounds
Send me to my
Hanging ground
Hang me from an oak tree!
Hang me from an oak tree!
In my hometown
Curaglas
By that bastard
Thomas McGrath
Hang me from an oak tree!
Hang me from an oak tree!
Johnny Dahilll is my name
Blacksmith am I by trade
Hanged in 1798
For playing my part
In the Patriot’s Game
Hang me from an oak tree!
Hang me from an oak tree!
In killing me
You made me a martyr
cause in my blood
Runs Holy water
IRISH LADS AND THE GRAND CANYON
IRISH LADS AND THE GRAND CANYON
So it's late July, and my dad takes me on the greatest adventure of my life across the three states of Arizona, Utah and Nevada where we visited Antelope Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, Monument Valley, Horseshoe Bend and the Grand Canyon. Yeah, it was some trip. Did I mention the helicopter tour?
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Sightseeing cruise on the river Liffey (Dublin)
A journey by boat through the heart of Dublin...
The river was previously named An Ruirthech, meaning fast (or strong) runner.The word Liphe (or Life) referred originally to the name of the plain through which the river ran, but eventually came to refer to the river itself. It was also known as the Anna Liffey, possibly from an Anglicization of Abhainn na Life, the Irish phrase that translates into English as River Liffey.
The Liffey rises between Kippure and Tonduff in the Wicklow mountains, and flows for around 125 km (78 mi) through counties Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin before entering the Irish Sea at the mouth of Dublin Bay on a line extending from the Baily lighthouse to the Muglin Rocks.
There are three ESB hydroelectric power stations along the river, at Poulaphouca, Golden Falls and Leixlip, as well as a number of minor private installations.
Towns along the river include Ballymore Eustace, Athgarvan, Newbridge, Caragh, Clane, Celbridge, Leixlip and Lucan before the river reaches the city of Dublin at its mouth.
The River Liffey in Dublin city has been used for many centuries for trade, from the Viking beginnings of the city up to recent times.
A well-known sight on the Liffey up to the 1990s, the Lady Patricia[5] and Miranda Guinness[5] cargo ships were used to export Guinness from the St. James's Gate Brewery.
In recent years, the only regular traffic on the river within the city is the Liffey Voyage water tour bus service, which runs guided tours along the River Liffey through Dublin City centre. Departing from the boardwalk downstream of the Ha'penny Bridge, the Spirit of the Docklands runs under O'Connell Bridge, Butt Bridge and the Talbot Memorial Bridge on a journey downstream, passing the Custom House before turning at the Grand Canal Basin and back up stream. Built by Westers Mekaniska in Sweden, this 50 passenger water taxi, has variable ballast tanks (not unlike a submarine) and an exceptionally low air draught which means that at low tide it can float high, but at high tide it can ride low and still pass smoothly below the Liffey Bridges.
Sarah's Bridge on the River Anna Liffey (1831) Sarah's Bridge is today called Island Bridge. The then-new Wellington Monument is seen on the left of the picture.
Sarah's Bridge on the River Anna Liffey (1831) Sarah's Bridge is today called Island Bridge. The then-new Wellington Monument is seen on the left of the picture.
Upstream from the city, at Chapelizod, the river is used by both university and Garda rowing clubs. The Liffey Descent canoeing event, held each year since 1960, covers a 27 km (17 mi) course from Straffan to Islandbridge.
Downstream of the East-Link bridge, the river is still mainly used for commercial and ferry traffic, with some recreational use also. High speed trips out the mouth of the Liffey are also available from Sea Safari.
Dividing the Northside of Dublin from the Southside, the Liffey is spanned by numerous bridges mostly open to vehicular traffic. Notable are the West-Link Bridge on the M50 motorway, the Sean Heuston Bridge, the O'Connell Bridge, and the Millennium and Ha'penny foot bridges.
Crossings further upriver include the Liffey Bridge at Celbridge, The Bridge at 16 (a 19th century pedestrian suspension bridge at the K Club), and the Leinster Aqueduct - which carries the Grand Canal over the Liffey at Caragh.
The earliest stone bridge over the Liffey of which there is solid evidence was the Bridge of Dublin (on the site of the current Fr. Mathew Bridge), built by the Dominicans in 1428, which survived well into the 18th century. This bridge with four arches included various buildings such as a chapel, bakehouse and possibly an inn[7] and replaced an earlier wooden bridge (Dubhghalls Bridge) on the same site. Island Bridge (a predecessor of the current bridge) was added in 1577. With the development of commercial Dublin in the 17th century, four new bridges were added between 1670 and 1684: Barrack, or Bloody Bridge, (the forerunner of the current Rory O'More Bridge), Essex Bridge (Grattan Bridge), Ormond Bridge (O'Donovan Rossa Bridge) and Arran Bridge. The oldest bridge still standing is the Mellows Bridge, (originally Queens Bridge) constructed in 1764 on the site of the Arran Bridge, which was destroyed by floods in 1763. The first iron bridge was the elegant Ha'penny Bridge built in 1816.
The song about Seamus Rafferty refers to the bowsies on the quay - However, recent years have seen much development on the quays, with the addition of linear parks and overhanging boardwalks which give the river banks renewed life.
(wikipedia)
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Renée Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities
Renée Ater discusses the processes and challenges of creating a digital project/publication about the memorialization of slavery. Her project, Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement, investigates how we visualize, interpret, and engage the slave past through contemporary public monuments.
Ater is Associate Professor Emerita of American Art at the University of Maryland. She holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College (1987); a M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland (1993); and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland (2000).
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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