The world has changed,this project hopefully will bring many creative people together in lots of ways.Perhaps through collaboration,ideas & innovation.The area of exhibiting & getting your work & creations noticed for a number of years will that more difficult,but I firmly believe that if people work together & alongside each other they will have an…
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The Silence
When a #story is written,when a #poem is composed,when a #book is published,when a piece of #art is created & when a time in our history knocked on everyone’s door & people’s lives ,families & the world was turned on it’s head #thesilence project came into being.It originated in #Cobh with the help & encouragement…
Sakura
Originally posted on artwallace inspired:
‘Sakura ‘ by Mary Wallace © My recent work is inspired by Japanese concepts wabisabi, seeing beauty in imperfection; kintsugi, the repair of broken porcelain using gold; haiku, short poems of three lines / seventeen syllables. Looking back I remember being fascinated by cherry blossom trees ever since I was…
Pauline Gibbons- Visual Artist
Pauline Gibbons – Visual Artist Pauline Gibbons is a visual artist who graduated with first class honours from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015. Both private and public collectors including CIT Registrars collection have purchased her work and she has participated in a number of exhibitions to date. For her degree show…
Commonwealth Wargraves in the Church of the Holy Rosary Graveyard, Midleton
Originally posted on The Midleton Archaeology & Heritage Project:
We went to the main Catholic graveyard in Midleton to have a look at the Commonwealth Wargraves related to World War One and World War Two, and to see if we could find any details on the men themselves. Of course there are numerous military-related graves…
Daring to Believe
Originally posted on Trish Carlos:
This time two years ago I had finally gotten my proof copies of my first novel, a book that I had sweated and cried over for five years. It is a magical moment when you open the package to see what had very much been a figment of your imagination…
The Unforeseen, Dorothy Macardle’s neglected 1945 novel about a tricked imagination is a page-turner..
A woman buys a rundown cottage in Wicklow, remodels it, adds a studio and settles down to work on her new book, a collection of bird photographs. Now that her daughter has gone to London to study painting, she has plenty of time on her hands. First published in 1945, Dorothy Macardle’s novel The Unforeseen…
Midleton College – a School from Scandal.
Originally posted on Midleton with 1 'd':
Midleton College Founded 1696. This inscription over the great door of the original block of Midleton College is both accurate, and disingenuous. The school was indeed founded by Elizabeth Villiers in 1696, but the building itself didn’t exist at the time. Indeed, the original school house was only completed…
fosail / fossil
Originally posted on K Bain – Writer:
sit with me inside the night, ?? i am holding the blue black? of loss. its river of tar & fossil flows ?? through me. flooding all senses. submerging ? my footsteps i walk through myself. darkening isolation’s hollow? tree. the wolf call despair, minds wilderness entangled forest.?…
Updates from the British press
Originally posted on Notes from the U.K.:
Statistics An article that’s been buried at the bottom of my stack of clippings reports that 98% of us think we’re nicer than half the population. And 90% of drivers say they’re above average. And although it doesn’t say this, 98% of bloggers think their blogs are…
Dear white friends: racism is slightly more complex than what you learned about in primary school
Originally posted on Reclaiming My Time:
After several years of banging my head against the wall upon seeing the old American proverbs of “it (racism) goes both ways” and “slavery ended 300 years ago” in social media comment sections, I think it’s time we address an uncomfortable truth: the watered down, Cliff Notes unit on…
