Photograph of the Day
POTD – A simple enough message on Hemp St.
All part of our all inclusive shared future i guess more »
Photograph of the Day – You don’t say?
under a weeks accumulated snow,ice,slush,grit ,shit and litter. more »
Photograph of the Day – The gate creaked refusing to close
A six word story. You might want to have a go with your own 6 words to describe this. Then again you might not! more »
Photograph of the day – Ribbon
I’m assuming that these yellow ribbons, which appeared last weekend around Templemore Ave, have something to do with the recent deployment of the RIR to Afghanistan. Unfortunately due to excessive exposure as a youngster i’m always reminded of this more »
Photograph of the Day – Disappearing Orange
On Sunday i spent the day covering the charity cycle ‘Lap the Lough’ (86 miles clockwise around Lough Neagh). I didn’t make a note of where i took this unfortunately. Anyways another of my bug bears is the flags issue. I think there should be more respect shown and that the flying of these fluttering [...] more »
Photograph of the Day – Zadoc Nava
The exhibition comprises photographs from a number of visits to Iran, in particular the capital Tehran and offers an insight into life in Iran. It’s an interesting exhibition and highlights tensions between the old and the new. Speaking with Zadoc he told me that whilst there was no real problem taking photographs(as ever common sense [...] more »
Photograph of the Day – Remember the fallen
If anyone can point me in the direction of a similar sectarian scrawl in a Nationalist area i’d be very happy to show that too. more »
Photograph of the Day – “Sure all you people do is scare folk”
Walking through town i saw this little tableau and took this photo. I heard Brian say “Sure all you people do is scare folk”. My guess is that the two crouching men were trying to convert Brian and his friend. Since i posted Brian’s photograph a few months ago i have had a couple of conversations [...] more »
Photograph of the day – Linton Kwesi Johnson
Johnson is the second living poet to be published in Penguin Classic series and the only Black poet to be included in the list. Having seen him perform live twice i can’t recommend him enough. The inflection and rhythm of his words are difficult to categorise but his inclusion in the Penguin Classic series is [...] more »
Photograph of the Day – Thank you C4
As part of a C4 documentary, a full scale section of the prow of the Titanic was built using, as best they could, the techniques of the day. Is it a sculpture? Is it a model? more »
Photograph of the Day – Play me I’m Yours
The 10 pianos have been painted/pimped/decorated by local artists. This lovely(whimsical) project is part of Craft NI craft month. In the last 2 days i have rounded corners to hear unexpected music including a group of around 10 or so singing along to contemporary songs as one of their friends played the tunes (very very [...] more »
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
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What Ireland did right (and what it needs to do)…
It is difficult to believe now that one country recently sent 19 delegations to Ireland to study how well our economy was managed. The revelation that our model of economic management featured positively in political and economic discussion in countries including Estonia, Greece and Scotland may also come as a surprise. As we survey the [...] read our review »
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Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
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