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Words of Passion and Truth: Thomas Gregg
New Local Voice Emerges on Scene

Louise Whelan Thomas Gregg lives in the same world as the rest of us, but he sees it a little differently. That’s because Thomas has a poet’s mind. Poets not only see the world around them, but observe and analyse […]

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IMMA Launch Major New Exhibition

David Prendeville On July 7th past IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) launched a new exhibition, The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis, addressing contemporary social and planetary issues and the impact of humans on the earth. The exhibition is fresh off a […]

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Best Back to School Movies Streaming Right Now

BJ Quinn I used to dread going back to school. I remember, as a neurotic six-year-old, pulling my mother aside the day before returning saying: “I can’t do it, I forgot how to add and subtract! And the alphabet? Forget […]

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Cinema’s Revival in 2022

David Prendeville It’s been a terrific year for film so far in 2022. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part 2, Lucille Hadžihalilović’s Earwig, Sean Baker’s Red Rocket and Gaspar Noe’s Vortex are just some of the stellar titles […]

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From The Grand Canal To The Dodder –
Illustrious Lives by Beatrice M. Doran

Dermot Carmody Beatrice M. Doran’s book is a collection of concise biographies of a number of extraordinary individuals who have dwelt at one time or another between the watery boundaries of the Dodder and the Grand Canal. Around 70 souls […]

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Her Keys to the City – Honouring the Women who made Dublin by Alison Gilliland and Clodagh Finn

Eoin Meegan This book is a too-long overdue roll call of gifted, intellectual, artistic, patriotic and heroic women who contributed in no small way to life in Dublin, and in many cases the nation. As well as names you would […]

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How to be a People Person, by Lara Cullen
Be Kind Be Brave Be Brilliant

Eoin Meegan This is a new book by Irish/Spanish entrepreneur and life coach Lara Cullen with the snappy format to be kind, be brave, be brilliant. The author breaks these ideas into their individual components, examining each separately, as well […]

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Me Myself & Eli by Thomas Gregg

This small volume of verse is the brainchild of local Ringsend native Thomas Gregg. The book is a collection of poems about Thomas’s life in and around Ringsend, and the ordinary/extraordinary people he met along the way. The Eli in […]

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Welcome to the
Rockschool

Louise Whelan Dylan Clayton’s Ringsend Rockschool has been rollin out the talents of its students since 2009/2010. Situated at the back of the RICC, you can’t miss the authentic original logo on the window or the sounds of strummed guitars […]

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Collecting Memories Of Tenement Life at 14 Henrietta Street

An initiative this summer from 14 Henrietta Street museum, run by Dublin City Council Culture Company, seeks to encourage Dubliners to share their reminiscences on life in Dublin’s inner city tenements. Where multiple families lived, often in great poverty and […]

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