Art, media, opinion and ideas
The Electoral Register question has taken legs in a way I didn't foresee. I'm used to the things I'm interested in being studiously ignored by the populous at large. Not ending up on the front page of the Indo.
Poetry, though traditionally the most hallowed of literary forms, is not one which is likely to bring one fame and fortune. Even the most successful poets will struggle to make a living, scrapping up grants, bursaries and teaching jobs wherever they can. Poetry then, is something you have to really want to do, and that goes all the more for the poet writing in a minority language.
“I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend, if the air is too dirty to breathe, the streets are filthy and the schools bad" - John Kenneth GalbraithThe economist, John Kenneth Galbraith died yesterday, aged 97.
A new site launched this week, offering out-of-print Irish books as free downloads under a Creative Commons licence. The Irish Literary Revival site has novels and poems, but is interested in hearing from any writer who might have a published out-of-print work that they'd like to see re-enter the world. They even accept non-fiction books.
DoppelGang Odessa Club Dressing Room Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. I previously mentioned that Emma Pearson was having an exhibition of her work in The Gallery, The Mill Centre, Celbridge. I thought it might be of interest to post a sample of her work.
There were some things I forgot to say in the last post and some new ideas. Firstly, I think I may have misadvertised this podcast- I think it ought to be be thought of as the Art Podcast. I think there might be other streams- I can see a place for a poetry podcast, or one from Fluffy Dutton.
With his Nobel Prize, his involvement in the Celtic Revival, and his later political prominence, Yeats is undoubtedly Ireland's great national poet. And yet, those of us living in the real, as opposed to the imagined Ireland will see more that we recognise in the work of Patrick Kavanagh. Kavanagh himself suspected as much, and it undoubtedly rankled with him.
Daragh is keeping his nose to the grindstone over at his new blog. The Government, responding to the periodic handwringing over the state of our electoral Roll, seems to be saying in uncredited briefings that they might fix the problem up by holding onto the enumerators hired for the Census. Daragh points out the reasons why this (a) can't happen(b) isn't a proper response anyway.
An experiment for this nice sunny weekend. Tuppenceworth Podcast Prototype: El Greco at the National Gallery of IrelandThe address for the Art Podcast feed, which will automatically deliver you any subsequent episodes in this series is http://feeds. feedburner.
Mr Potato of Planet Potato has two questions he'd like this blog to answer. 1. "Where do I find all the cute single lawyers?"2.
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