Essex Street Site, Temple Bar Dublin -Above, a list of institutions under investigation in the Mother and Baby home inquiry
Nora at Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar West
Names of infants buried at Tuam Mother and Baby home
Tuam Babies
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Irish Music to watch for on Raelach Records
MUSIC is a universal language, appealing to the very soul of man, and is the outpouring of the heart, whether to express joy or sorrow, to rouse to battle or soothe to sleep, to give expression or jubilation for the living or of wailing for the dead, to manifest sympathy with society or devotion to the Deity. It is, as Thomas Davis writes, “the first faculty of the Irish.“
(From A History of Irish Music by William H. Grattan Flood)
Over the past few months, Raelach records have released some of the finest recordings of Irish musicians that I have heard for many years. On Sunday at City Hall Dublin, we had the honorary concert for the wonderful Tony MacMahon which coincided with the release of a new album of slow airs. (Farewell to Music – Tony MacMahon)
Photography and artwork by Maurice Gunning
This Thursday 24th at The Cobblestone, Dublin 1, Raelach Records will be releasing a new album by Jack Talty called ‘In Flow’.
I have been listening to it all day today and it’s a fantastic collection of tunes, jigs, reels, hornpipes and slow airs.
Guests on the night will include John Blake, Ruairí McGorman, Áine Bird, Aidan Connolly, and Saileog Ní Cheannabháín.
We need to support our musicians, buy their CDs, go see them live and spread the word. They carry with them in their music our songlines.
LIST OF UPCOMING CONCERTS
Saturday, 26 November
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin @
Hoban’s Bar, Westport, Co Mayo
8pm
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Sunday, 27 November
Jack Talty @
O’Sullivan’s Courthouse Pub, Dingle
9pm
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Saturday, 3 December
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin + Aidan Connolly @
Holmes’ of Doohoma, Co Mayo
Time to be announced
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Sunday, 4 December
Cuar (Neil Ó Loclainn, Aoife Ní Bhriain, Maitiú Ó Báiréil)
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Danny Diamond @
63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (Royal Society of Antiquaries)
4.30pm
€15 incl. glass of wine. Pre-booking advised >
LIST OF CDS AVAILABLE FROM RAELACH RECORDS
Tony Mac Mahon, Farewell to Music
https://raelachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/farewell-to-music
Jack Talty, In Flow
Aidan Connolly, Be Off
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, Roithleán
Ensemble Ériu, Imbas
SNAP support Artane Band Disbandment
SNAP (SURVIVORS NETWORK OF THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS)
The group at the centre of the recent Oscar winning film, Spotlight have today issued a statement in support of our motion to have the Artane Band disbanded. www.snapnetwork.org/
Barbara Blaine, the founder and president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), an international advocacy group for survivors of clerical sexual abuse, has come out in support of a campaign to have the Artane School of Music disbanded.
SNAP is supporting a motion by Dublin councillor Mannix Flynn for the disbandment of the music school, an establishment jointly run by the Christian Brothers and the GAA. The band in its current form wear the original and traditional insignia and uniforms worn by the band from when it started at a time when children attending St Joseph’s Industrial School in Artane were subjected to sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the religious.
Speaking from Chicago in support of councillor Flynn, Blaine said: “I believe that so much suffering and pain has been caused to those who lived through the horrors of the industrial school in Artane. They have been through enough. We should be doing all we can to prevent any further pain and suffering.”
Things to see -Farcry Productions- Culture Night Dublin
If you are heading out into the heart of the city of Dublin tonight for Culture night do check out various sites by Farcry Productions (www.farcryproductions.ie)
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Something to Live For
Parliament Street/Cork St/Dame Street
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Something to live for – window’s acknowledging the contribution made by individuals to the establishment of the Irish Republic. Originally installed 2006-2008
Pidge Duggen, Ellen Walsh and other great citizens who made this country.
There has been a special guest put up in one of the windows just for Culture night
- Close by the previous installation, you will find SOMEBODY’S CHILD, Essex Street, Temple Bar West. This work lists the names of the children buried in a pit in Tuam, Bons Secours Mother and Baby home, Co Galway.
Bon Secours Mother and Baby home, Tuam Co Galway
Bon Secours grounds where 800 babies were found
- THANK YOU – GO RAIBH MAITH AGAT – Georges Street, opposite The George
Arabic translation of The Proclamation
Thank you -Go Raibh Maith Agat
Proclamation translated into Arabic, Chinese, Gaeilge, French, Polish and Russian. To find the German translation you will have to walk to The Oak Pub on Dame Street and look up above the door!
- CHILDREN TO YOUR FLAG, NEVER IN DARKNESS – Video installation, Dame Street (Stand at the bottom of Georges Street and look up)
A video installation on Dame Street – Georges street of 13 women who contributed greatly to Irish culture, heritage and the establishment of the Irish Republic.
see http://www.1916onehundred.ie/about.html
- Also on the front of the Mercantile Pub, Dame Street you will come across the banners of 7 Women and 7 Men
Conflict + the City – Free talks
Some of you might be interested in this two day conference at Liberty Hall. The event is free but you must register through the email at the bottom of this press release. It is a public event and open to all.
31st May-June 1st
List of speakers can be found here: http://conflictandthecity.ie/speakers/
CONFLICT + THE CITY – Public Conference in Liberty Hall Theatre (FREE)
Dublin City Council’s Heritage Office, in conjunction with UCD Decade of Centenaries, is organising a two-day Public Conference entitled‘Conflict + The City’ in Liberty Hall Theatre. The Conference is aimed at the general public and admission is free.
Over the two days speakers will engage with the audience in discussing the effect of war on the streets and buildings of cities, the rebuilding that then happens and how this affects the way we experience our cities today. Day one will mostly concentrate on Dublin post-rebellion (and post-1922) and then broaden out to look at major cities across Europe with international speakers focusing on Beirut and Berlin. Day two will look at Jerusalem, Belfast, Sarajevo, and the contemporary situation in Calais, for examples.
Speaking about the conference, Charles Duggan, Heritage Officer with Dublin City Council said “This conference is designed for the general public, for anyone who has an interest in Dublin and how the city was rebuilt after the conflicts that took place from 1916 to 1922. But as well as that, we will be placing Dublin in a greater European context and looking at the effect of conflicts on other great European cities. A host of International speakers, together with local experts will deliver talks on an aspect of the city that has yet to be explored.”
Dr. Ellen Rowley of UCD said “Staying in the twentieth century, this two-day public conference will present research into various architectures of war and cities in repair, from Beirut to Blitz-time London; from Cold War bunkers to Belfast’s peace-lines. Today, in Dublin, much of how we move through, spend time in and experience the city comes out of the 1920s reconstruction projects. The scars of conflict and the efforts towards rebuilding resonate through Dublin’s architecture, almost 100 years later.”
ENDS
The conference is free but booking is essential.
For more information see W: www.conflictandthecity.ie
E: heritage@dublincity.ie T: (01) 222 3090
Mrs Kate O Callaghan 1885-1961
Everyday I will post a short biography and image from the ‘Something to Live for’ window installation at Parliament Street/Cork Hill/Dame Street Dublin.
Today is Kate O Callaghan who had a major influence on the cultural life and politics of Limerick City.
Kate Murphy was born near Macroom, Cork in 1885. She had 14 brothers and sisters, 11 of whom survived to adulthood. She obtained a degree from the Royal University followed by teacher training in Cambridge. She took up her sister Máire’s post as a teacher in Limerick at Mary Immaculate College.
In July 1914 she married Michael O’ Callaghan and passed her job on to another sister, Éilis. She joined the Gaelic League along with her sisters and was a founder member of the Cumann na mBan Limerick branch . Her jusband became Lord Mayor of Limerick in 1920 and was shot dead by masked men in front of her (believed to be Black and Tans), She was left a widow at 35 years of age. She began a campaign to countermand the authroities ‘version’ that he had been killed by and extreme element of the IRA. Her pamphlet, The Limerick Curfew Murders, was circulated in Ireland, England and America.
In 1921 Kate was elected to the Dáil. She opposed the Treaty and in 1922 called for increased women’s suffrage. She lost her seat in 1923 but remained a very active member of the cultural life of the city and was a member of the Limerick Drama Society, Féile Luimnigh, Limerick Art Gallery and the Gaelic League. When she died in 1961 members of the old IRA carried her coffin draped with the tri-colour. She was buried at Mount St Lawrence cemetery next to her husband.
Link to The Limerick Curfew Murders http://museum.limerick.ie/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/11690
Institutional Abuse Public Meeting
SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
CARANUA INFORMATION EVENT DAYS
Please see below information events and dates that Caranua (service name of the Residential Institutions Statutory fund).
Institutions covered link to list of Institutions
For those living in Dublin the event takes place next Saturday 12th March (10am-1pm) in the Gresham hotel. For all of those who have suffered as a result of the institutions as defined in the Ryan Report and other such reports this public meeting by Caranua is important to you, as this organization is charged with administering assistance to those who suffered in such institutions. It was set up by the then Minister Ruairi Quinn and has a budget in excess of 100 million euros which was part of an overall compensation package designed to address education, social and health issues, counselling, mental health and emotional issues.
Many of the former residents are elderly and infirm and many are in substandard accommodation. Caranua offers assistance with some house improvements, personal health issues and educational issues by way of financial support in the payment of bills.
It does not offer direct financial support by way of cash to individuals but is more to assist and help and support with provision of services and goods.
If you know of anybody who was in any of these institutions and could do with assistance and support and the relevant information regarding how to access such supports you should inform them to attend these meetings where relevant information will be supplied and also it’s an opportunity to somewhat socialize and meet others.
See you all there at the Gresham, next Saturday.
It is also important to note at such gatherings that anonymity and boundary and confidentiality are important to us all and above all to treat each other with courtesy and respect.
| City | Venue | Date and Time | Type of event
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| Dublin | Gresham Hotel, O’Connell St, Dublin | Saturday 12th March 10am – 1pm | In addition to Caranua, other organisations will also have information stands at the event. |
| Manchester | MacDonald Manchester Hotel, London Road, Piccadilly, Manchester | Saturday 9th April 10.30am – 1pm | This event will only involve Caranua |
| Cork | River Lee Hotel, Western Road, Cork | Saturday 23rd April 10am – 1pm | In addition to Caranua, other organisations will also have information stands at the event. |
| Galway | Radisson Blu Hotel, Lough Atalia Rd, Galway | Saturday 14th May 10am – 1pm | In addition to Caranua, other organisations will also have information stands at the event. |
Giro d’Italia Road Closures, Dublin – Sunday 11th May
Please see info below relating to the road closures around Dublin city today.
The race will then head towards Dublin city via Baldoyle, Clontarf, Alfie Byrne Road, East Wall Road, the 02, North Wall Quay, Custom House Quay and will cross the Liffey at Talbot Memorial Bridge.
It will continue down City Quay, Lombard Street, Westland Row, Lincoln Place to the finish line at Merrion Square West at around 4.30pm.
A number of road closures are in place for the event. Merrion Square West, Merrion Square South, Merrion Square East, Merrion Street Upper, Mount Street Upper and Fitzwilliam Street Lower will all be closed until 11pm tonight.
And from 1:30pm to 4:30pm there will be the following closures: the R132 from Co Meath to Balbriggan via Drogheda Street, Bridge Street, Dublin Street and Old Market Green, Mill Street, Clonard Street, Quay Street, the Skerries Road (R127) to Skerries via Balbriggan Road, Ballbriggan Street, Thomas Hand Street and the Dublin Road, the Skerries /Lusk Road (R127), Post Office Road, the R127 from Lusk to Blakes Cross, the R132 from Blakes Cross to Seatown Road, the Mantua Road, Estuary Road, The Mall in Malahide, Strand Road/ Coast Road (R106) inPortmarnock, the Coast Road (R106) towards Baldoyle, the Main Street to Dublin Road via Warrenhouse Road, the Dublin Road (R105) in Baldoyle.
Dublin Bus advises that there will be a number of diversions along some of its routes. Check Dublin Bus for details.
South East Area Dublin Junk Collection
To all residents in the South East Area – notice will be given two days in advance of the collections of ‘junk’ on each of the following streets.
BOW LANE AREA
PRINESS ST SOUTH
DOWLINGS COURT
LOMBARD COURT
LOMBARD ST EAST
PEARSE ST
SANDWITH ST PLUS UPPER BOYNE ST
BOYNE ST, SANDWITH ST PLUS UPPER MAGENNIS PLACE
PLUS RIGHT TURN OFF ERNE ST
UPPER AND LOWER HANOVER ST
EAST MACKEN ST
CREIGHTON ST – TURNS OF THIS TO BE NAMED
WINDMILL LANE GRAND CANAL QUAY
LIME ST SOUTH LOTTS ROAD PLUS TURNS OFF IT
CARDIFF LANE BARROW ST PLUS TURNS OF IT
MACKEN ST DENZILLE LANE
MISERY HILL HOLLES ST
FORBES ST FENIAN ST
HOGAN PLACE
GRAND CANAL ST LOWER AND UPPER PLUS RIGHT TURNS OFF IT
GRATTEN ST
CLAMWILLIAM PLACE
BENSON ST WARRINGTON PLACE
HANOVER QUAY HERBERT PLACE PLUS LANE
GREEN ST EAST PERCY PLACE AND LANES OFF IT
BRITAIN QUAY WILTON TERRACE
TOWNENDS ST WILTON PLACE
LAD LANE HOLDEN PLACE
CUMBERLAND ROAD STABLE LANE
JAMES ST EAST LAVERTY COURT
JAMESPLACE EAST MACKIES PLACE
POWERS COURT LANES OFF IT PEMBROKE COURT
VERSCOYLE PLACE THE MEWS AND LOFT
GRATTAN ST PLUS THE BLOCK OFF IT ADLEAIDE ROAD
KINGRAM PLACE CHARLEMONT ST
LESSON PLACE AND CLOSE PETERS PLACE
PEMBROKE ST NO 6 TOM KELLY ROAD
PEMBROKE PLACE CHARLOTTE WAY
BAGGOT PLACE CUFFE LANE
FITZWILLIAM LANE KEVIN ST LOWER
BOGGOT COURT LIBERTY LANE
JAMES PLACE EAST CATHEDRAL LANE PLUS TURNS OFF IT
BULL ALLEY ST
ABLANA BLOCK BRIDE ST
ABLANA VILLAS WERBURGH ST
GREENORE TERRACE GOLDEN LANE
ISLAND VILLAS CHANERY LANE
HOGAN PLACE SHIP ST LITTLE
HOGAN AVE
CARLINFORD PARADE CASTLE ST
GRATTIN ST JOHN FIELD ROAD
ALBERT PLACE EAST
CLARENCE PLACE GREAT MACKEN ST
PEARSE GROVE
CITY QUAY
MEADES TERRACE
BASS PLACE
HOLLIES ROW
WILSON TERRACE
Sean Moore Community Awards – Nominations
Sean Moore Community Awards
We are delighted to confirm that the Sean Moore Community Awards – first established during the 1988 Dublin Millennium has a new sponsor and will be presented by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Oisin Quinn at a ceremony in Clanna Gael Fontenoy, Ringsend on the 20th February next year.
The awards are open to any Dublin 2, 4 or 6 people, or organisations, who have made an exceptional contribution to the community.
We invite you or your organisation to consider putting forward a nomination outlining the reasons why your nominee(s) should receive an award.
A nominee could be a good neighbour, a long serving youth, community, or resident’s association leader. The person can be young or old, man or woman. You the community determine that. There will be a number of awards presented.
Please send your nominees to the following no later than Friday, 7th February 2014 to:
The Chairperson,
Panel of Judges, Sean Moore Community Awards,
c/o NewsFour,
Ringsend Irishtown Community Centre,
Thorncastle Street,
Dublin 4
Mannix Flynn 