Photo owned by pthread1981 (cc) UPDATE: It’s confirmed!!! Brilliant news for Galway: TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is expected to confirm this week that the next Volvo around the world yacht race will finish in Galway in 2012. Mr Cowen is expected to make the announcement in Dublin, when he will explain that the race festival will … Read more
Caricatures Ireland has been longlisted in the Best Blog of a Business (sponsored by Red Cardinal) and Best Arts and Culture Blog (sponsored by Poetry Ireland) categories of the Irish Blog Awards 2010. Thanks for your nominations! The full longlist is here.
I came across several shelves’ worth of old drawings and designs tonight. This one was an artist’s impression for a proposal that the then Mac Teo (now Arcana) was putting to Croke Park for interval entertainment at the 2001 Hurling Final. It was a retelling of the Setanta and the Hound myth and the proposal eventually took life like this:
Photo owned by Maxwell GS (cc) Blogging’s dead innit? So you won’t want to nominate your favourite blogs for the Irish Blog Awards 2010 now will you? Wait, what’s this?
Galway’s been experiencing a lot of strange cloying fogs as of late. I took this a few weeks ago near Parkavara, the fog hung about a foot deep above the water, unmoving but for the occasional tendril that crept up on a breeze.
From the exhibition in Sheridans’ on the Docks, running until the end of the month. Pop in for a look!