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The 2010 Macnas Parade, The Wild Hunt, starts at 2pm on Sunday 18th July at 2pm in the Spanish Arch. The map above shows the route. Possibly advisable to bring a brolly!
UPDATE: I found the above image on John Morgan‘s photostream on Flickr. I love it!
This is the Flickr slideshow for this year’s Macnas Parade Apocolopolis. If you have any photos and you’d like me to post them here email them to me!
Macnas Parade Slideshow on Flickr.
I’m at 00.32. I’m using Jazz Biscuit’s RTE Embedder above, if it’s not working you can watch the report here.
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As promised here’s the route of the Macnas Parade this Sunday. Best bet: get to Fr. Griffin Park at 9.20pm and you’ll get to see everything earlier than the rest of the route. You’ll miss the finale but if you’ve got young kids this might be your best bet. I’ll be at the front. You can’t miss me:
Above is a cartoon I was commissioned to do for Macnas: Joyful Abandonment
The cartoon is a potted account of the processes that are never seen by the general public but are essential to the creation of the parade each year.
Judith, Helen, Rachel and others won’t be impressed at the absence of rehearsals in the above cartoon (or may not have noticed in which case I’ve just shot myself in the foot!). In my defence I submit the following:
I hadn’t enough space;
Rehearsal is so important it warrants its own cartoon.
The book is a must for fans of Macnas, theatre professionals and students, and those interested in the recent history of Galway. You can order the book from Amazon by clicking on its name above.
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