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A Dublin walk with Pat Liddy

  By Niamh | September 7, 2009 - 11:30 am | The Culch, Tourism
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Sunday last week I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in a walk around Dublin city centre with historian Pat Liddy. Pat is a well-known historian and face around Dublin and what he doesn’t know about Dublin, you could fit on the back of a postage stamp. The walk was to promote a new initiative by Dublin City BID - the Business Improvement District. The BID are a non-profit organisation who are trying to improve the city through removing graffiti, removing rubbish, adding on-street flower displays, new Christmas lights, providing professional Street Ambassadors among others and now they have developed a new initiative of wrapping 14 of those boring, old, grey traffic boxes with drawings of landmarks, interesting facts about Dublin and a map of where in the city you are and what interesting things there are nearby to visit. Though mostly aimed at tourists, the ‘interesting … There’s more →

Dublin In The Rare Oul’ Times

  By Niamh | August 27, 2009 - 1:30 pm | Events, The Culch
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The IFI are currently doing an Irish Film Archive: On The Road season, visiting various counties with rarely seen, exciting local footage of days gone by. The Dublin branch of the tour, Dublin In The Rare Oul’ Times will feature in a variety of Dublin City’s libraries. Originally supposed to be during Heritage Week, it seems that this has been extended into September and October. They reckon that the archived footage will not only appeal to “nostalgia addicts but also to anyone interested in social, economic and architectural changes in Dublin from the 1930s to the 1970s”. The films to be shown range from a 1932 cinema advertisement for Clery’s department store, a 1949 ‘Safe Cycling’ public information film made for the Department of Local Government to reduce bicycle accidents often caused by bad cycling behaviour (as demonstrated in the film), to the later films of the 60′s and 70′s. … There’s more →

Blind Yackety Hides in Seashells

  By Lottie | April 29, 2009 - 1:31 am | Music, The Culch
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One of my favourite past times is discovery, not of places or things, but discovery of music. Particularly Irish music. It’s one of the reasons I adore The Choice Prize each year. I always come away with a new collection of “favourites”. So when we popped along to a charity gig in Greystones Theatre recently, my little ears got all perky and excited when local band, Blind Yackety took to the stage.