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Dive Into Culture | Guinness Storehouse | Dublin, Ireland
There’s no better way to discover the stories of the most famous Irish export, than a visit to the home of Guinness, The Guinness Storehouse at St James’ Gate, Dublin. Alan, a Guinness Beer Specialist, reveals the history of ‘the black stuff’, it’s important to the Irish people, and it’s cultural significance to Ireland as he takes our Trafalgar guests on a tour, packed with plenty of storytelling, tasting, and fun.
Vagabond Tour Guides Come Out of Hibernation
Something stirs in the woods... It's been a long winter, but gradually our tour guides are waking up from the their long slumber. Hungry for adventure. They are sending out the signals that it's time to visit Ireland. Are you ready to join them?
106Bn Arrival from Lebanon
106Bn home from Lebanon
DC Shoes 'King of Dublin' (2009) for St Patrick's Day
Banging Hard Drive find just in time for St Patrick's Day (apologies for the low resolution).
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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.
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Dublin LGBTQ Pride 2016. Google, Facebook, e-Bay, Twitter
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മൊബൈൽ ഫോണിൽ പിടിച്ച ഒരു പ്രവാസി ഓണാഹോഷപരിപാടി Lucan Ireland by Ivision
മൊബൈൽ ഫോണിൽ പിടിച്ച ഒരു പ്രവാസി ഓണാഹോഷപരിപാടി Lucan Ireland. For Ivision: Chry_Martin (Martin Varghese - Ireland) & Introduction: Ancy.
Seán Hillen art exhibition launched at Belfast’s Golden Thread Gallery HD
A major exhibition has opened of images by an artist whose work has been described as “the best expression of what it felt like to be in Northern Ireland during the Troubles”.
“100 Works” by Sean Hillen – including some rarely if ever seen pieces - was launched at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast last night.
It focuses on the Newry-born artist’s work as a collagist with hard-hitting, striking and sometimes humorous images about life in Northern Ireland and the Republic dating back to the early 1980s.
The exhibition is the first major solo exhibition of Seán Hillen in Northern Ireland and probably the biggest ever in Ireland. His distinctive images have been circulating in Irish visual culture for over 30 years.
Hillen grew up during an intense phase of the Northern Ireland conflict, before studying in London at LCP and the Slade School of Fine Art.
His earliest works were fine art-documentary photographs, which quickly became source material for a series of paradoxically funny but politically charged photo-collages, created between 1983 and 1993, when he moved to live and work in Dublin.
The Irish Times critic Fintan O’Toole stated that these works “remain the best expression of what it felt like to be in Northern Ireland during the Troubles”.
Peter Richards, director of the Golden Thread Gallery on Great Patrick Street in the city centre, said it was a “great privilege” to host the exhibition.
“Remarkably it’s his first major exhibition in the north of Ireland, and it’s his most comprehensive exhibition to date,” he said.
“What Sean does as a master collage artist is he collapses a sense of time and place and allows you a starting place for a new narrative.”
Artist Sean said: “This is 35 years of work and it’s the first time it’s ever been collected,” he added.
“Because a lot of my work is in private hands and public collections, it’s like the biggest ever borrowing of the ‘babies’ from around the world – it’s like a family reunion.
“It’s actually deeply moving for me to see work that I haven’t seen in 20 years. I’m thrilled, it’s an honour and a delight.”
Images from Hillen’s series, IRELANTIS, have appeared on over 30 book and magazine covers, and were described in CIRCA magazine as “the most vivid and emblematic of the hopes and fears of ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland”.
Seamus Heaney, opening the first IRELANTIS exhibition in 1995, said: “I admire them very much, for knowing their place, in all senses.
“For knowing their place in our history, knowing their place in the world, knowing their paces as well as their place.
“For their light touch, for their great cultivated allusiveness, and for their technical aplomb. So, I feel so at home with them, I want to sign ‘S.H.’ under them, but it has been done already!’
Recently, a chance remark led to a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome, which Hillen describes as “a life-changing catalyst” for a renewed personal understanding and professional momentum.
A major award from the Arts Council of Ireland has enabled him to create an archive of over 220 collaged works, spanning a 35 year period.
In 2016, the curator Erik Kessels discovered Hillen’s work at the FORMAT Festival and offered to design a new book of the collages, due to be released in 2017.
This selection by the artist of 100 works comprises a mixture of original collages, facsimile editions and prints, amassed from a range of public and private collections and the artist’s studio.
* Sean Hillen is in conversation at the Gallery between 1pm and 2pm today (Friday 27/01/17).
Acknowledgement: Golden Thread Gallery would like to thank The Office of Public Works (OPW), Newry & Mourne Museum, Sean Hollywood Arts Centre and a number of private individuals who have kindly agreed to lend work from their collections for this exhibition.
Ireland Trip Day 4
On our fourth day of our Driftwood tour, we started off in Dingle with a mini concert from another Driftwood tour guide who was in town! Then we drove along Slea Head drive, saw where Star Wars was filmed, visited Dingle Crystal to see how the beautiful crystal is carved, before making our way back to town. We took a boat out to see Fungi the dolphin who loves to visit boats and were blessed with a gorgeous rainbow for most of the ride, before having probably the best meal of the trip
Secure the Clarina Park Site 3
Another stolen car in the Clarina Park site, Ballinacurra Weston, Limerick.
While I’m sure that other residents reported the stolen car, the times noted in this video are the times that I personally contacted An Garda Síochána and the Council’s “Office of Regeneration“.
As far as I’m aware, the Gardaí are supposed to remove stolen cars for forensics if they haven’t been burnt out. I don’t know why they didn’t show up; I can only assume it was because of a lack of resources; Garda numbers for Limerick are at an all-time low.
The Clarina Park site is the responsibility of Limerick City & County Council and its “Office of Regeneration”. There are now the shells of two burnt-out cars on the site.
The site once had 49 perfectly good houses that were built in 1996 - the area was depopulated and the houses demolished over a 5-year period (2007 - 2012). The former estate of Clarina Park is now a proposed site and has been green-lined for private development in the long-term (8-years). Three blocks of adjacent homes have also been red-lined for demolition and green-lined for private development in the Council's new regeneration plan without any prior agreement with the owners. The site is not secure because the Council have an open spaces policy.
In the interest of resident’s safety and security the site needs to be properly secured.
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Oldest Bar in the world Irish Pub Song by Sean Olohan in Sean's Bar by Martin Varghese Ireland
ലോകത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും പഴയ ബാറിൽ, ഒരു അടിപൊളി ഐറിഷ് പബ് സോങ്ങുമായി, അയർലണ്ടിലെ വിക്കലോയിൽ നിന്നും ഷോൺ ഒലോഹൻ എഴുതി, സംഗീതം നൽകി ആലപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു, ഇതിന്റെ ദൃശ്യാവിഷ്കാരം മാർട്ടിൻ വർഗ്ഗിസ് ചങ്ങനാശേരി...
Irish Pub Song by Sean Olohan (Track One Music, Wicklow Town, Ireland) in Oldest Bar in the world - Sean's Bar Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
By:- Chry_Martin (Martin Varghese -Ireland) Sung by:- Sean Olohan(Irish Pub Song - Music & Lyrics), Album:- Autumn falling down, (Track One Music, Wicklow Town, Ireland).
Sean's Bar is a pub in Athlone, Ireland. It claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, dating back to 900 A.D. In 2004 Guinness World Records listed Sean's Bar as the oldest pub in Europe. Sean's Bar is located at 13 Main Street, Athlone, on the west Bank of the River Shannon, and was originally known as Luain's Inn. It is often colloquially referred to simply as Sean's.
The name of the town Athlone derives from the Irish Atha Luain, meaning the Ford of Luain. Luain was an innkeeper who guided people across the treacherous waters of the ancient ford. The crossing point and the pub date back to the year 900AD. Later, a settlement was established around the crossing point and King Turlough O' Connor built the first wooden castle here in 1129.
According to Frommer's travel guide, the bar holds records of every owner since its inception, including when Boy George owned it briefly in 1987. During renovations in 1970, the walls of the bar were found to be made of wattle and wicker, dating back to the tenth century. Old coins (which were apparently minted by various landlords for barter with their customers) were also found and dated to this period. The walls and the coins are on display in the National Museum. One section remains on display in the pub.
Guided Tour of Louth
The Louth Tour Guide Network visit some of the great sites of County Louth over a weekend in November 2012.
The Sites and the Guides:
Monasterboice - Aisling H
Old Mellifont Abbey - Liam Mc Cauley
Boyne Currach Centre - David Campbell
Millmount - Gerry Mc Keon
Killencoole - Nikki Browne
St Mochtas House & St Marys Abbey - Barry Rogers
Hill of Faughart - Paul Lynch
The Poc Fada - Michael Kinahan
Carlingford Lough - Don Baldwin
Historical Dundalk - Deirdre Rogers
Traditional Music - David Patton
Thanks to Kieran & Ian for helping everyone along
(There is one wee clip of the Joes Juniors, after winning the League in Dowdallshill that Sunday afternoon also!!)
Oldest Bar in the World - Sean's Bar Athlone, Ireland ലോകത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും പഴയ ബാറിൽ നിന്നും
Oldest Bar in the World - Sean's Bar Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
ലോകത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും പഴയ ബാറിൽ നിന്നും ഐവിഷൻ ടീം...
By Ivision Ireland of the Welcomes, For Ivision ireland:- Chry_Martin (Martin Varghese -Ireland) & Rajesh Unnithan, Sung by:- Sean Olohan(Irish Pub Song - Music & Lyrics), Album:- Autumn falling down, (Track One Music, Wicklow Town, Ireland).
Sean's Bar is a pub in Athlone, Ireland. It claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, dating back to 900 A.D. In 2004 Guinness World Records listed Sean's Bar as the oldest pub in Europe. Sean's Bar is located at 13 Main Street, Athlone, on the west Bank of the River Shannon, and was originally known as Luain's Inn. It is often colloquially referred to simply as Sean's.
The name of the town Athlone derives from the Irish Atha Luain, meaning the Ford of Luain. Luain was an innkeeper who guided people across the treacherous waters of the ancient ford. The crossing point and the pub date back to the year 900AD. Later, a settlement was established around the crossing point and King Turlough O' Connor built the first wooden castle here in 1129.
According to Frommer's travel guide, the bar holds records of every owner since its inception, including when Boy George owned it briefly in 1987. During renovations in 1970, the walls of the bar were found to be made of wattle and wicker, dating back to the tenth century. Old coins (which were apparently minted by various landlords for barter with their customers) were also found and dated to this period. The walls and the coins are on display in the National Museum. One section remains on display in the pub.
Seán Kyne T.D. - The Irish National Cyber Security Centre: Securing Ireland’s digital future
About the Speech:
The Irish National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was formally established in 2015. Together with the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), the NCSC has responsibility for Ireland’s national cyber security defences. The global cybersecurity threat landscape continues to pose an immense challenge. Notable attacks in 2017 have included the ransomware virus, WannaCry, and the malware virus, Petya.
As part of wider efforts to address these security threats, the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive) was approved in July 2016. Member States have until May 2018 to implement the NIS Directive, with both the NCSC and CSIRT playing a critical role in this regard.
Seán Kyne discussed the NCSC’s latest progress in this context, and offered his thoughts on the nature of the digital security threat to the public and private sector alike.
About the Speaker:
Seán Kyne is Minister of State for Community Development, Natural Resources & Digital Development.
Visiting the White House / Tour#3
We are the Byrne Family from Dublin and Donegal, now living in Orlando Florida USA since Jan 2018. We are a family Band who play Traditional Irish Music and Irish Dance. We have already finished 6 month in Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant in Disney Springs and have just started an epic journey touring all over the US and here is our first Vlog, we hope you enjoy it. Tommy, Julie, Luca, Finn and Dempsey
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Garda Attempt to Interrupt Peaceful Protest In Sugarloaf Crescent, Bray (Part 2)
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A brief tour of Achill Island celebrating 5,000 years of life on Achill.
A brief tour of Achill Island celebrating 5,000 years of life on Achill.
RoboRiots Dublin 2019, Fight 4
Here is the fourth and final fight we had at RoboRiots in Dublin,
Hope you enjoy it :)