NORTHERN IRELAND: ENNISKILLEN: BOMB ATTACK SCARES OFF TOURISTS
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One week ago on Sunday - July 14 - the picturesque town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland was rocked by a massive bomb.
The blast destroyed the front of one of the town's most beautiful hotels and damaged the tourist industry.
It is thought the terrorist attack was launched on this town because it would scare off the foreign visitors who normally flock to there in the summer.
There are few places in the world as tranquil and lush as Enniskillen, which sprouts up between two large lakes with the river Erne running round it.
There's plenty to see and do in the County Fermanagh town.
It boasts historical sights such as the fifteenth century Enniskillen castle which was formerly home to Gaelic chieftains.
It's possibly most famous for its water sports - everything from rowing boats to vast cruisers can be rented for an idyllic holiday.
The tourist centre is run by Charlotte Wilson, who unsurprisingly plays down the impact of the bomb on scaring off the tourist trade.
But she admits it has caused a dip in the numbers passing through her office.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Usually at this time of the year we would have about 600 visitors through the doors of our tourist information centre every day. In the last week or so the figures have dropped slightly, we may have for example instead of 600 around 450, 500.
SUPER CAPTION: Charlotte Wilson, Manager, Tourist Information Centre
No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the bomb at the Killyhevlin Hotel which injured 17 people. l
The Irish Republican Army have denied they were behind it.
What is certain is that it has sent a chill up the spine of locals who once again have to contend with the horror of violence erupting on their doorstep.
They dread the effect on business and the prospect of jobs being lost.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I can just see loads of people out of work for a start, severe loss of business, severe loss of money for the community, severe loss of jobs even in spin off areas - suppliers will obviously be put down as well and it's just real bad - completely bad.
SUPER CAPTION: James Ownes, Waiter
One of the town's best known pubs is William Blake's, now run by his son Donal.
It is a favourite for a rich pint of Guinness beer, which traditionally has a shamrock traced out in its thick foam.
It too has felt the effect of the bombing.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
It has a depressing effect on people. Those coming in across the border and from England and America have stopped coming - not completely but it's certainly has closed down dramatically sales and slowed down the business generally and there's certainly a depression around the town you know.
SUPER CAPTION: Donal Blake, Owner, William Blake's Pub
It seems strange to those tourists currently visiting the town that such an act of violence could be perpetrated in this seemingly tranquil, friendly community.
A couple of Australians who decided to come when all was peaceful in Northern Ireland have seen sights they did not expect when they left home.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Police officers in bullet proof vests is something you don't normally see in Adelaide. Any sort of riot like that would be quashed immediately, so it was a bit scary. I wanted to take pictures of course. You jump out of the car, you take a picture, jump into the car and drive off quickly so it was frightening.
SUPER CAPTION: David Hill, Australian Tourist
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Today it seems quite peaceful and everything. I don't think we've anything to worry about, hopefully. They say lightening doesn't strike in the same place twice.
SUPER CAPTION: Trudy Hill, Australian Tourist
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Images from Enniskillen Castle, the Inniskillings Museum, Manor House Country Hotel, Castle Archdale, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and Bundoran, Donegal, July 15-16, 2019. Images can also be viewed in full resolution at: flickr.com/photos/mjdallenphotos. ©2019 MJD Allen Photos.
1917 - Official Trailer [HD]
1917
In Select Theaters Christmas, Everywhere January 10
Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917.
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s own brother among them.
1917 is directed by Sam Mendes, who wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Showtime’s Penny Dreadful). The film is produced by Mendes and Pippa Harris (co-executive producer, Revolutionary Road; executive producer, Away We Go) for their Neal Street Productions, Jayne-Ann Tenggren (co-producer, The Rhythm Section; associate producer, Spectre), Callum McDougall (executive producer, Mary Poppins Returns, Skyfall) and Brian Oliver (executive producer, Rocketman; Black Swan).
The film is produced by Neal Street Productions for DreamWorks Pictures in association with New Republic Pictures. Universal Pictures will release the film domestically in limited release on December 25, 2019 and wide on January 10, 2020. Universal and Amblin Partners will distribute the film internationally, with eOne distributing on behalf of Amblin in the U.K.
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William Blake remarked provocatively, Empire follows Art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. If the aesthetic of the British Empire was not always celebratory, this was partly due to an abiding sense of embarrassment or distaste with which many Britons regarded their overseas affairs. This has resulted in objects being hidden away in storerooms and the subject of Empire until this exhibition at the Tate not addressed directly. Many British itinerant artists were employed in the colonies, thereby helping to forge the national narratives of disparate cultures. A number were better known overseas than they were in Britain like London-born Augustus Earle (1793-1838), Robert Dowling (1827-1886), Agostino Brunias (1730-1796) and Thomas Baines (1820-1875) in South Africa and Australia. Here we can see Stubbs's Australian Dingo on page 51, painted in London in 1772 from a traveller's description. The collection is arranged in the following chapters: Mapping and Marking, Trophies of Empire, Imperial Heroics, Power Dressing, Face to Face and Out of Empire written by such art experts as David Blayney Brown and Carol Jacobi. Here are portraits such as Tissot's Frederick Burnaby 1870, the watercolour map by John Thomas 1593, The Siege of Enniskillen Castle, the splendid panorama The Settlement at Whitby by Wenceslaus Hollar depicting Tangier; Bombay by Samuel Scott, Millais's The North-West Passage, depicting a weather-beaten old mariner staring resolutely out at the viewer with both fists clenched. Seated on the floor by his side is a young woman, presumably his daughter, reading from a log book. There is a prominently positioned map of the Canadian Arctic, a telescope and log books, the Union and white ensign flags and a portrait of Nelson, all deeply significant. There is a Cable & Wireless Great Circle Map 1946 and George Stubbs's Cheetah and Stag with two Indian attendants, princes and Maharama on horseback, a 12 storey Gopuram temple in Madras, portraits, tobacco pipes, Paton's In Memoriam showing the horrors enacted on both sides of the massacre of women and children in the Bibighar or House of Ladies and Allan Stewart's To the Memory of Brave Men showing the annihilation of a small band of British soldiers of the BSA by Matabele warriors. A bare legged Captain Thomas Lee in 1594 depicts a man who saw active service during the 'plantations' or mass colonisation of Ireland after the confiscation of land by the English Crown with his inlaid pistol and Spanish-type helmet, fine shirt with intricately embroidered lacework. Mohawk warriors, a portrait of Pocahontas aged 21 in Elizabethan finery and the three princesses of Mysore 1806 are others of our favourites. 256 page large softback, 9½ x 11½. An extraordinary breadth of objects and artworks.
My Mary of the Curling Hair sung by Fergus O'Kelly
I am putting up 31 You Tubes from the Walton’s Glenside recordings (22 from a cd released in 2004; and 10 from a cassette – volume 1-was there a volume 2 (?)-from 1990). (I have already put up Noel Purcell’s Dublin Saunter ‘Dublin can be Heaven with coffee at 11’). Until 2018 Walton’s had a shop at 11 South William Street which had been the home in the 1830s of the Waterford composer William Vincent Wallace before he emigrated to Australia.
The Walton’s’ was one of those commercially 15 minute sponsored programmes that was broadcast on Radio Eireann (now RTE) in the 1950s and 1960s. It used to go out at 1.45 on Saturdays (live as sometimes the needle used to get stuck in record groove and would have to be quickly adjusted!). It was Irish music “our fathers loved” and Leo Maguire always ended with advertising the shop in North Frederick Street, Dublin 1 and repeating the motto “If you do feel like singing-do sing an Irish song!”. It was more Thomas Davis than Luke Kelly. It was rather genteel and just compare the rather parlour rendering by Joe Lynch of The Wild Colonial Boy and that of vigorous Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem version? For me it had one outstanding tenor in Fergus O’Kelly and one would like to know if he did any other recordings. Liam Devally was another who also performed well. Mary McGonigle was yet another with a fine voice.
This is the founders grandson commentating in the Irish Times in 2018:
In 1922, Martin Walton, Niall’s grandfather, opened the music shop on North Great Frederick Street. An accomplished violinist and Feis Ceoil winner, Martin Walton took part in the Easter Rising when he was a teenager, was arrested during the War of Independence and was imprisoned in Ballykinlar internment camp in Co Down.
After fighting in the Civil War, he opened a music shop and established the Dublin College of Music. The original store closed a few years ago when Waltons opened in Blanchardstown. They also previously had a store in Dún Laoghaire.
In 2007, the George’s Street shop appeared in the movie Once when Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová perform the Oscar-winning song Falling Slowly.
“We must have had thousands of people coming in to photograph the piano they played on. In the stage productions they’d mention Waltons and the Oscars ceremony recreated the interior of the shop for their performance. It was very good publicity but ultimately it wasn’t enough,” Niall Walton says.
During these challenging times, Walton often reflects on his grandfather’s amusement when he mentioned the business was struggling during the 1970s.
“I was 19 and said business was pretty tough. He said: ‘Tough? You couldn’t spell it.’ He reminded me that when he opened in 1922 O’Connell Street was in ruins after the war. Then there was the Wall Street Crash, De Valera’s economic war on England and in 1938 Hitler came along. Then it was six years of survival during the war, another 10-15 years for the world to recover, a few easy years in the 1960s and then the oil crisis in the 1970s.
“Things go up and things go down. We complain but we don’t have a clue what tough means
Patrick Leo Maguire (1903 – 17 December 1985) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and radio broadcaster.
Born in Dublin's inner city, Maguire trained as a baritone under Vincent O'Brien, John McCormack's voice teacher. For many years he performed with the Dublin Operatic Society.
Leo Maguire was a prolific composer, writing over 100 songs. These include Come to the Céile, The Old Killarney Hat, If You'll Only Come Across the Seas to Ireland, The Dublin Saunter (which he wrote for Noel Purcell) and Eileen McManus (recorded by Daniel O'Donnell).[3] His most famous song is The Whistling Gypsy. In 1954 Rose Brennan was awarded third place by the New Musical Express for the best recording of the year for her cover of The Whistling Gypsy. It was also a hit in Ireland and later in the United States. Maguire also wrote parodies and humorous songs under the name Sylvester Gaffney.
In parallel with his musical career, Maguire worked as a broadcaster on Radio Éireann. The programme with which he is most closely associated is the Walton's Programme. This was a weekly sponsored show during which Maguire played recordings of popular Irish ballads. The programme was broadcast for almost 30 years until its cancellation in January 1981.
Drumlough Pipe Band @ Antrim 2018
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