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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Just finished the Macnas Parade 2007. I was “Mr. President” in the Unfinished Symphony section at the end. Great fun and it didn’t rain! Below are a few pre-parade images:
And of course my bad self, pre-makeup. Well done Gavin, Triona, Fiona, Peter, Bill, Mike and all the gang (there’s a lot of new faces around that I haven’t put a name to!).
