Congratulations Michael Collins… er, Winston Churchill… no, Brendan Gleeson
I love that part in The Treaty where Brendan Gleeson turns to Brendan Gleeson and says “I’ve just signed my own death warrant”. Congratulations on the Emmy Brendan.
Month: September 2009
Salthill Yesterday
One of the many caricatures I drew yesterday for the Salthill Community Arts Festival. Lovely sunny day it got too!
If you live in the UK and care about the Arts for kids, read this.
Photo owned by egarc2 (cc) Paddy Brown has a great post up describing the lunacy of New Labour’s Independent Safeguarding Authority, which demonises anyone working in schools or with kids and assumes that everyone is a slavering paedophile unless they’re on the ISA’s list of approved (paying) people. Philip Pullman recently vowed never to visit … Read more
Wedding Entertainment in the Kilkea Castle Hotel, Kildare
Another wedding, this time in the secluded confines of Kilkea. I did a lot of driving that day (and cussing too, truth be told- Kilkenny City has an aversion to decent road signage for some reason) but I arrived and met the wedding band as they were setting up. I thought I recognised the singer, … Read more
Wedding Entertainment in Monaghan
And another one from a few weeks ago in the Glencarn Hotel, Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan. There’s a part of that journey coming up from Galway where you’re as well following the birds as the signposts. Still, with my unwaivering sense of direction, apart from the odd time when I get lost, I managed to get … Read more