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Travel: Ireland - We Had Tea In A Castle ft. Exploring Eastern Ireland Travel Vlog
In this week's travel vlog episode, we have tea in the Argillan Castle and continue exploring Eastern Ireland! We check into our Airbnb Castle (you'll get a sneak peek this episode), randomly visit a few places that some locals suggested, and check out Skerries Mills. Join us for our last couple of days in Ireland. We hope you have had the merriest Christmas! Make sure to subscribe to get notifications of our bonus episode, a tour of the Airbnb Castle, coming at you later this week ;)
Theme Song: from Epidemic Sounds I Don't Wanna Go by Cody Francis
tHE MEASURE, [short edit 6.28 for web preview , original film 19:06]
tHE MEASURE
[19;06 minutes]
16:9 widescreen
French with english subtitles
Brian Duggan 2011
Please note this short edited from Film for web preview only, this is 6.29, full film is 19.06.
tHE MEASURE maps a curious journey by two characters through a 44km topographical section of Fingal in north Dublin, using samples from a number of sources including E.M. Forster`s 1909 short novella The Machine Stops as a guide. Starting on one end on Colt Island, Skerries and the other at the Huntstown quarry, specific landmarks from Fingal ground the story in tangible fixed points but without fixing the time. The Huntstown quarry in north Dublin is where much of the film is set, and the film took place within a greater context of the boom in Ireland collapsing over the course of the 3 years when the film was made. However the film doesn't explicitly address this, but more considers 'post and pre-something' scenarios within a disjointed but coherent narration.
As the story develops the narrator brings forth multiple tales from underground cities, lost connections, desires and dreams from the past, and for the future. On closer listening we begin to hear multiple narrative strands weaving in and around contemporary circumstances. In some lights a melancholic search for a connection between two characters, searching a strange depopulated land, society is absent, either by design or after an event. A kaleidoscope of elements has informed this new digital film, from Nicholas Roeg's The man who fell to earth, and Walkabout, the Poet W.Auden, the letters of Vincent Van Gogh, E.M. Forster`s The Machine Stops and the black and white 1966 BBC series of the same name. The fractured nature of the piece finds a resolution of sorts, in a dramatic sequence in the largest quarry in Dublin.
O'MACHINE O'MACHINE, is the resolution of a three year per cent for art commission for Fingal County Council. Brian Duggan created a two part project for this comission, the first part is a publication of new short stories, titled 'Three thousand and nine', which has just been published. This 96 page pocket size book is a revisualisation of the future in the year three thousand and nine. It contains new comissioned fiction by the artist and three new writers, Daniel Bowland, Niamh MacAlister, and Pauline O'Hare who were also co-selected by John Banville. The book also contains a new text as an afterward by Francis McKee.
This is published by Fingal Arts office and can be obtained through
IMMA bookshop
Project bookshop
Hugh Lane Gallery bookshop
Pallas Projects Dublin.
or you can buy and ship direct from Blurb
The second part the digital film 'tHE MEASURE'.
The Film premiered 5th May 2011 in the Sillogue water-tower along M50 Motorway junction 4.
Commissioner.
Caroline Cowley, Public Art Co-ordinator, Fingal Arts Office, FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL.
more info on artist
brianduggan.net
The beauty of the Shetland Isles.
A friend lives in a stone cottage overlooking this location
DUBLIN TOURISM - Ahead of the curve
Welcome in Dublin ...,
The city of Dublin is located in the Republic of Ireland adjacent to one of Europe's quite popular countries, the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland also shares the same land as one of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland.
the Irish city of Dublin, has a much more glittering face than any other region in the whole of Ireland. Dublin, not only serves as the capital. Dublin is also the largest and densest city in the Republic of Ireland.
The place to be visited when traveling is City Center. As the name implies, the location of City Center is in the middle of the city, on the left and right side of the Liffey River that crosses and divides the Dublin city of Dublin into 2. Its location is very strategic. Hence, City Center can be reached by foot from the train station Heuston and from bus terminal Busaras. The main road segment at City Centar is O'Connell Street. Sidewalks for pedestrians are wider than roads for motor vehicles. Not to be tired, so crowded visited by people from morning till night. A terraced building with tall columns like ancient Greek buildings it turns out that the building is now used as a post office center (General Post Office).
Another exciting place to shop is Market Arcade on George Street. Still in the City Center area. Its location is parallel to the Temple Bar, meaning opposite O'Connell Street.
In this Market Arcade, sell a lot of vintage goods. Sort of used goods that are still good. The price is certainly not expensive. In addition, there are small shops selling souvenirs. Bookshops that sell used books, though the same store also provides a new collection of books.
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Francis Ledwidge Lament for Thomas McDonagh Poem animation
Heres a virtual movie of the Irish poet and patriot Francis Ledwidge reading his sad and beautiful short poem for his friend and fellow Irish nationalist poet Lament for Thomas McDonagh .This lament for the slain poet McDonagh evokes the lost poetical senses of the 1916 leader. Ledwidge encapsulates in a few short lines the senstivity of the poet. Ledwidge forsees better times ahead for Ireland. He wistfully hopes that the executed McDonagh might see his patriotic sacrifice as instrumental in the betterment of the Irish nation
Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 -- 31 July 1917) was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the poet of the blackbirds, he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.
Thomas MacDonagh (Irish: Tomás Mac Donnchadha) (1 February 1878 -- 3 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Though credited as one of the Easter Rising's seven leaders, MacDonagh was a late addition to that group. He didn't join the secret Military Council that planned the rising until April 1916, weeks before the rising took place. The reason for his admittance at such a late date is uncertain. Still a relative newcomer to the IRB, men such as Clarke may have been hesitant to elevate him to such a high position too soon, which raises the question as to why he should be admitted at all. His close ties to Pearse and Plunkett may have been the cause, as well as his position as commandant of the Dublin Brigade (though his position as such would later be superseded by James Connolly as commandant-general of the Dublin division). Nevertheless, MacDonagh was a signatory of the Proclamation of the Republic.
During the rising, MacDonagh's battalion was stationed at the massive complex of Jacob's Biscuit Factory. On the way to this destination the battalion encountered the veteran Fenian, John MacBride, who on the spot joined the battalion as second-in-command, and in fact took over part of the command throughout Easter Week, although he had had no prior knowledge and was in the area by accident. MacDonagh's original second in command was Michael O'Hanrahan.[7]
As it was, despite MacDonagh's rank and the fact that he commanded one of the strongest battalions, they saw little fighting, as the British Army avoided the factory as they established positions in central Dublin. MacDonagh received the order to surrender on April 30, though his entire battalion was fully prepared to continue the engagement. Following the surrender, MacDonagh was court martialled, and executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916, aged thirty-eight.
His widow died of heart failure while swimming in Skerries, Co Dublin on July 9, 1917; his son Donagh MacDonagh became a prominent poet, playwright, songwriter and judge. He died in 1968. In addition, his extended family were spread across the British Isles in the Irish diaspora.
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Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011
Thomas McDonagh
He shall not hear the bittern cry
In the wild sky, where he is lain,
Nor voices of the sweeter birds,
Above the wailing of the rain.
Nor shall he know when loud March blows
Thro' slanting snows her fanfare shrill,
Blowing to flame the golden cup
Of many an upset daffodil.
But when the Dark Cow leaves the moor
And pastures poor with greedy weeds
Perhaps he'll hear her low at morn
Lifting her horn in pleasant meads.
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