Government plans for extension of Dáil bar into Leinster House once pesky Seanad is gone

haha 🙂

An Argument on Behalf of Rag Week

Colin Carberry is doing a poetry reading on Tues 15 April at 7.00 pm in in the Irish Writers’ Centre 19 Parnell Square, Dublin

POETRY READING

by Colin Carberry

in the Irish Writers’ Centre
19 Parnell Square, Dublin

on Tues 15 April at 7.00 pm

 

Colin Carberry was born in Toronto and spent some of his childhood in Lanesboro, Co. Longford, before returning to Canada. He now lives in Mexico with his wife and daughter. Colin is the author of the poetry collections The Crossing (Bearing Press, 1998), The Green Table (Exile, 2003) and Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna, 2007). He is also the translator of two collections by one of Mexico’s greatest poets, Jaime Sabines, including Love Poems (Biblioasis, 2011). Colin’s poems have been translated into many languages. He has read from his work on radio and television, and at book fairs, embassies, literary festivals, and universities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States. In 2010 he founded the Linares International Literary Festival in Mexico, of which he is Artistic Director. Colin’s latest book, a co-translation into Spanish of Jack Harte’s Arcana, was published in 2013.

The Employee: A Political History review

The Employee: A Political History review

Thanks to David Convery for drawing my attention to this interesting review! on the 

ICHLC – The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class facebook page check it out it out its an interdisciplinary group comprised of students, postgradutes, academics in NUI Galway and other universities. Convened by Dr John Cunningham, Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Dr Laurence Marley (Dept History, NUI Galway) and other members  of the department with Labour interests 

 

Victorian Weirdness

this blog post Sophie Duncan from is sort of like steam punk 🙂

CLAMOROUS VOICE

I bow to nobody in my appreciation of Weird Victorian Antics, hold a gold medal for getting distracted by bizarre stuff from Victorian periodicals and should in any case really be concentrating on my viva prep / teaching prep / article.

Neverthless, thanks to a database search gone (so) wrong, I just found the following paragraph at the start of an 1888 article on women’s fashion and beauty:

“Hints to Women: […]

TEA GOWNS. If you want to look your prettiest, to bewitch your husband or big brother, to fascinate your cousin or to charm your friends en masse, get a tea gown.” [emphasis mine. Like the screams]

The guilty publication was The Daily Inter Ocean, published on 12 February 1888 in Chicago, presumably then a city of webbed feet, hairy backs and family trees that would have made Queen Victoria’s maddest lapdog look like a good genetic prospect.

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Amazon acquires digital comics platform (and iPad hit) comiXology

Gigaom

Amazon(s AMZN) is acquiring the cloud-based digital comics platform comiXology, the companies announced Thursday. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed.

ComiXology lets users read digital comics and graphic novels on a number of platforms, including web, iOS(s aapl), Android(s GOOG), Kindle Fire and Windows(s MSFT) 8. It was Apple’s top-grossing non-game iPad app in both 2012 and 2013.

“Amazon and comiXology share a passion for reinventing reading in a digital world,” David Naggar, Amazon VP of content acquisition and independent publishing, said in a statement. “We’ve long admired the passion comiXology brings to changing the way we buy and read comics and graphic novels. We look forward to investing in the business, growing the team, and together, bringing comics and graphic novels to even more readers.”

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Theatre round-up: Red Velvet, Ebbsmith, and Lear

go look at Dr Sophie Duncan’s Blog its v good i promise you

CLAMOROUS VOICE

Where I’ve been: on 12 March, I gave my talk at the Tricycle, which sold out! I was delighted, both to see so many friends there, and that people were attending other than my compassionate family & friends. Plus, as well as introducing E & my mother to Adrian Lester (who deteriorates in neither charm nor good looks, it must be said), the Tricycle’s AD, Indhu Rubasingham appeared from nowhere to introduce my talk in an incredibly kind and complimentary way. The audience looked surprised, because until then I think they’d been assuming that the child in the jumper faffing around the projector cable was some sort of admin assistant/work experience minion, rather than the speaker…

Christopher Ravenscroft and Rhiannon Sommers in The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith.

Then on 14 March, I went in to Primavera Productions’ rehearsals for Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, to talk about…

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Performing The Nineteenth-Century Stage: 12 March, Tricycle Theatre, London

CLAMOROUS VOICE

On 12 March, I’ll be giving a pre-show talk for Red Velvet, the award-winning play by Lolita Chakrabarti, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, and starring Adrian Lester, that’s currently on at the Tricycle Theatre. I was historical advisor on the first production and have been asked back to recreate my work in the rehearsal room (scary participation absolutely not required) and to give a seminar-cum-workshop on the process of bringing the nineteenth-century theatre to life! Adrian Lester’s already talked a bit about this process in an article for the Guardian (note the quoted source *cough*), and, seriously, do come along, because it will be awesome. There will be stuff about race, nineteenth-century acting technique, gesture, theatre history, the importance of such vital artistic theories as “big legs” and “the teapot” and how we might represent past acting styles in a way that engages a twenty-first century audience.

And Shakespeare. There’ll…

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Brave, cunning and a little bit hilarious: Castlegar Volunteers pre-1916

YERMA AND THE INTELLECTUAL LAB ASSISTANT

remember thar play i was working with heres a post about it from max the director

Max Hafler - Radiating /Receiving

The photo, a rehearsal shot by Jim Hynes, shows Aoife Corry , as YERMA, with Claire Keating and Marie Hegarty in the background. The production, a collaboration between NUI Galway and Core Theatre College, was performed in February 2014 at the Mick Lally Theatre Galway.

The production occurred in such an amazingly organic, flowing  way. Whilst interviewing for stage management, I met a student who happened to be a singer, and who was studying Spanish. This student ended up creating and singing the music, teaching it to the student/ actors and in finding a guitarist who played Spanish guitar who played live. This in turn  made me fully realise the general atmosphere I wanted to create was as if the audience was attending  a Spanish music session rather than a Play. The person who was organising sound was shifted to the lighting as we went further to develop this ambiance…

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