Artist Photographer. Paul Kane Gallery. Apr 2024-25 NLI/EPA Photographer-In-Residence. Project Title: ReViewing Ireland: A Photo Study of Ireland's Environment
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As a major supporter of public transport, and not easily outraged, why can I not book a train for end of December? @IrishRail Public Consultation ended end Sept. We should be able to book a train within 90 days of today. Watch how the website will crash on the 13th Dec. 1/2
I am in the quiet carriage on a train. Carriage G. It’s so quiet people are falling asleep. And snoring! Not so quiet for the rest of us!! 😭😭😂😂😬
Last month @dpdireland took my IKEA delivery to wrong depot – €40 to collect by taxi, lost my tradesman due to delay & item was broken.
Replacement from @IKEAIE today gone to same wrong depot.
Paid tradesman to teach me how to install *^%£!* sink myself! Using basin instead!
The web info by @IrishRail is atrocious. If works are taking place, itemise those works in ONE NOTICE. Or link to 'more info', not a selection box of headings. Three clicks and I still don't know what is happening. Every. Bank. Holiday. Weekend. #dobetter
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Important article. It makes two vitally significant points: Zionism is not racism and antisemitism in Ireland is very real and must be combatted. Perhaps the fact that it is delivered by Fintan O'Toole, a respected Irish journalist and a left-wing public intellectual should wake up those on the left who oppose this position. O'Toole states very clearly that opposition to Israeli government policy must not manifest in the demonization of Jews or their right to live in their own country.
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Don’t worry - your own freedom of expression includes the freedom to get things completely wrong.
The issue isn’t Sally Rooney’s political views, or even her books. It’s her stated intention to use the proceeds to fund a proscribed organisation.
A rather important distinction.
in my original post about the Sally Rooney affair I have been accused of oversimplifying what has happened. And that's fair - I did. But after going into this in more depth I realise that we end up in much the same place - books not on sale to the UK public because of the entirely unrelated activities of their author. After all who is to know whether the proceeds from books that would have been sold would actually be the money to be be donated to Palestine Action as opposed to money that Rooney has already made or is making elsewhere? Rooney btw, with scant regard for her readers, seems not to be unhappy for this to happen.
I don't imagine that the government anticipated this outcome when it produced the ban and I'm not at all sure that Faber shouldn't have taken the risk of a prosecution that probably would never have happened. The result is the same - books not available for political reasons.
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Book your table with us for the final event of Ballybough & North Strand Festival of history! 01 8847500
#NiallQuinn #HistoryFestival 📚 @dub_history
The extraordinary life of Oscar Traynor footballer, rebel and politician with Niall Quinn. Booking open. A free event part of #HistoryFest Supported by @DubCityCouncil & @NEIC_Dublin
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#Ballybough #NorthStrand
I am no Joyce reader but he has always interested me as a man, a writer, and a Jesuit boy. Alcoholism and dysfunction was apparent in his life, so I have a huge appetite for this lecture. I am convinced much of societies trouble is from people on one drug or another, legal or not
Please join us on Friday, 23 October at 6.30pm for "Alcoholic Family: The Sobering Reality of the Joyces," a lecture about alcoholism and the Joyce family by author Christine Dwyer Hickey.
To grow up in an alcoholic home is to grow up among chaos. Chaos brought about by fear, shame, guilt and even grief. To survive, family members adapt certain strategies: they enable, cover up and deny their own feelings. They take on various roles in order to protect the family unit: Hero, Enabler, Scapegoat and Lost Child, Clown. This is how the Alcoholic Family is built. In short, if Tolstoy’s unhappy families are all unhappy in their own way, alcoholic families are unhappy in a way that is remarkably similar and depressingly predictable.
There can be no doubt that John Stanislaus Joyce was a chronic alcoholic. But what impact did his drinking have on his family? This lecture will consider the Joyces as the quintessential ‘Alcoholic Family’ as defined by psychologists and medical professionals. It will also discuss the influence brought to bear on the work and life of the eldest son James, who would go on to become the most gifted and famous writer of the 20th century.
Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are €5.
The talk will be followed by a wine reception 🍷
Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist and short story writer. She has published nine novels and a short story collection. Christine has won many awards including the Walter Scott Prize 2020 and the Dalkey Literary Award for her novel The Narrow Land and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year for The Cold Eye of Heaven.
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
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Today 3 years ago Hamas terrorists brutally murdered 1,200 innocent people & took 250 hostages.
Kim Damti, Laois 🇮🇪 & Gedera 🇮🇱 was one of the many young lives cut short when horror hit a music festival.
We stand in solidarity with all the victims, their families & communities.
I misread the budget and thought the living alone allowance was going up by €25. I was delighted to see the issue adequately acknowledged. I am more disappointed by the lack of recognition than by the €23 less than I thought, though that too. Oh well. Pop on the porridge. Burr.
Moving from a house that sat beneath an elevated railway line to a high-up apartment means I woke this morning, looked out my bedroom window, and saw this. #gratitude #lucky #awe
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The charity I work for has just opened up a school for 1,000 children in Gaza City. I’m just back from the West Bank, where we support thousands of families. Let me know how much you’d like to donate - tweets are free, real support costs money.
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Very impressed to see John Banville take this principled stand.
The boycott of writers and artists based on positions regarded as non-conformist is literal fascism.
The antizionist religious police are only accepting Jews if they swear allegiance to the bandwagon.
John Banville has shown great courage. Hopefully those artists, writers & musicians who have been intimidated into silence or who adopted a position for the sake of a precious career, will take heart.
‘Following the cancellation of Ariana Harwicz, the International Festival of Art, Literature, and Cultural Humanities Cultur-Alh will lose its major asset.
The great Irish writer, John Banville, has declined to attend the event organized by the University of Granada precisely due to the cancellation that the Argentine author has faced because of her views against the cultural boycott of Israel and the pressure exerted by pro-Palestinian student groups.’
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A full house last night for Catriona Crowe's talk on Eccles Street - A Love Story at Annesley House, North Strand! Thank you Catriona 🥰
#JamesJoyce #Historyfest #Dublinfestivalofhistory #Ballybough #Dublin
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We Irish should be proud of Wexford novelist John Banville, who recently withdrew from a Granada literary festival that dropped Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz over her opposition to cultural boycotts on Israel. Harwicz is a highly acclaimed writer, whose first novel was adapted into the 2025 film Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and produced by Martin Scorsese.
Banville declined to comment on his withdrawal from the festival, but he doesn't need to, as he's been making the case against ideological bullying for years. He signed a 2020 Harper's letter warning against ideological conformity in cultural life. In an RTÉ interview, he stated that people should be free to disagree with a writer's views, but that suppressing their work is "very, very dangerous."
Banville's own novels show Copernicus and Kepler battling against the orthodoxies of their time. His Quirke series dissects a 1950s Ireland where "blanket censorship and official lying" were the norm. Only this month, he was writing about the censorship of Edna O'Brien's early work, including her debut novel, The Country Girls, which was denounced by the Church and banned by the state after its publication in 1960. So good for John Banville. We just need more such people willing to take a stand against censorship and suppression.
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Two interesting history talks take place this weekend. Free. Ballybough & North Strand festival of history part of Dublin Festival of History #HistoryFest #northstrandbombings #JamesJoyce
Free just turn up!
