Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
Gavin has posted the following details about a meet-up for Irish bloggers:
Blogger meet-up:
Venue: Market Bar, (upstairs) Fade Street, Dublin
Time: 8pm
Date: 25th of June or July 2nd, you decide
Attendees: Bloggers, blog readers, friends of bloggers, friends of blog readers - well anyone who is interested really.
Aim: To further develop the blog community in Ireland, while […]
Rónán Ó SnodaÃgh
Playdays ****
Kila have a massive following in Ireland and put on an energetic live show, that fans of that brand of world music-cum-Leveller’s style raggle-taggle love. Playdays is Rónán Ó SnodaÃgh’s third album and with the Kila crew, he is a master percussionist playing bodhrán, djembe, congas, bongos and guitar. While many […]
Having recently read a post about the perils of breast lumps and cancer over on thinking out loud, I was sad to see this morning that Kylie Minogue has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully we’re getting better at talking about things like cancer in this country but more than getting the illness itself, is […]
Novelist Rick Moody talks to Sinéad Gleeson about The Ice Storm, Joyce and his ancestor Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I don’t mind comparisons to John Cheever or John Updike but I think it’s based on a WASP culture thing, which is a slight slur. It’s like saying that all Jewish writers are like Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud […]
Well I don’t want to give too much away about Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, but it’s pretty damn good. I was so disappointed by The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones was only alright. This time however, George Lucas has redeemed himself with episode three. The opening sequence is amazing, […]
So Ben Barnes and Brian Jackson have resigned from the board of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. The reason cited is that the theatre’s debt is actually twice what it was thought to be. There’s a detailed account of where Arts Council funding goes on their website, and last year the Abbey & Peacock theatres received 5,050,000 […]
As a lifelong Manchester United fan, I feel pretty much the way most Man U fans feel tonight upon hearing that Malcolm Glazer has substantially strengthened his sweaty grip on United. He has bought the 28.7% chunk of shares formerly owned by JP McManus and John Magnier and now holds about 63% of the club’s […]
I wonder if this comes as news to Damien Rice? I can’t keep up with those Hollywood types and their supermarket conveyor belt love lives…
“Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger has married country music star Kenny Chesney in a small ceremony on a Caribbean island on Monday.”
I wasn’t in Dublin at the weekend, so I only got around to reading Saturday’s Irish Times today, and there was a pleasant surprise in the Opening Lines section of their Magazine, where Belinda McKeon wrote the following:
Online magazines may be two a penny by now, but there is more to creating a decent read […]
I was watching Channel 4 news last night and they had a novel package on door-step canvassing. Three foreign journalists shadowed a candidate from the three main parties to see how the whole UK election machine works.
The Tory candidate, Jeremy Hunt, was accompanied by a Hong Kong Journalist who took his photo a lot and […]
MIA
Arular ****
MIA’s story is almost as fascinating as her music. Hailing from Sri Lanka via London, her dad is an on-the-run Tamil Tiger guerrilla. London-based MIA aka Mathangi Arulpragasam’s music . and delivery . is not like anything else you’ll hear this year. Imagine if Ms Dynamite had listened to The Slits or […]
When one of my favourite writers, Virginia Woolf said: “I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of”, I couldn’t help my curiosity about Katherine Mansfield. Finally, the opportunity to read her work arrived and I’m sorry I’ve waited so long to discover it. Mansfield has long occupied a […]