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Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review » -
Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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Of the Old North and other Vanished Kingdoms..
I’m currently trawling through Norman Davies’s fabulous new tome – “Vanished Kingdoms” – Five stars in the (London) Telegraph’s review from Ben Wilson: All the nations that have ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand,” writes Norman Davies. “The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human [...] read our review »
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Who do you think is the saddest? The young man saddled with the banks’ debt, the drunk, or the idiot who is forced to sacrifice his dignity to put food on the table?
moochin
well at least molly malone is in the frame which i guess covers your butt on int’l womens day
joe
the young man is leggin it out of the country. pronto
three to four years ago the “drunk” was a major residential property developer
and the lepruchan? obviously a recently unemployed fianna fail td still doin the “ach bejasus, everythings grand” routine.
Spot the stereotype – which one, there’s four in the picture
An aside: I was walking past same statue last year when this breathless American tourist came running down the street shouting back at her husband “Quick, quick, John its Molly Malone!”
Molly’s decolletage seems oddly well polished.
The passerby is the future, wired into his own, limited world, the bucklin the past and the gent … err… having a smoke the eternal.
Good shot or lucky shot? The drink and the leprechaun and Ms Malone were going nowhere. Could you have got a better shot? Good one nonetheless
joeCanuck: the idiot who is forced to sacrifice his dignity to put food on the table?
His dignity is safe, unless that’s his real face.
Beaverbrook wrote: An aside: I was walking past same statue last year when this breathless American tourist came running down the street shouting back at her husband “Quick, quick, John its Molly Malone!”
I was walking in the Botanical Gardens in Glasnevin and saw a group of Americans posing by the statue of Socrates. ‘Did you realise Socrates was Irish?’ said the one with the camera.
Jesus, I can’t even have a wee drink without some git posting it on a website……BURP
Is that not Brian Cowen as the leprechaun I heard he got a new job and as for the drunk its probably Enda Kenny in 2 weeks time after he has had a proper look at Irelands accounts
@alanmaskey
If i hadn’t dawdled on my way up the road i wouldn’t have been here at this moment in time.
If i hadn’t positioned myself with the view to making a photograph i wouldn’t have got this photo……in other words timing and luck do have a part to play, there are many many variables at play when taking street photos. As a matter of fact the leprechaun took his head off moments later and i wasn’t lucky enough to get a good shot of that as luck meant that there were alot of people walking past.
And i probably could have got a better shot if i wasn’t experimenting with an iphone and the problems of shutterlag didn’t come into play but i am not blaming the tool just sayin .
and to quote Gary Player
“The more i practice the luckier i get”
BORING
care to expand on that insightful comment Niall?
Not the picture, no as always, your contributions are very interesting, often entertaining. Particularly the dishevelled bunting; that was a classic. Both the picture and the discussion that followed.
No, I meant the comments. Surely for a blog, the picture should generate a response and its use/quality/whatever is only so good as the discussion it generates.
And although the picture is clearly a stoke of luck (Gary Player quote accepted) and interesting, the discussion is/was not.
Plus, at the time of the BORING comment, I was slightly annoyed that several other stories had yet and have since still not been posted for discussion on the site. So not the picture, the thread and the site generally at the time – and still, a bit BORING.
Thanks for the clarification…..what other stories do you think need covered?