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Sandycove Creek
Sandycove () is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is southeast of Dún Laoghaire and Glasthule, and northwest of Dalkey. It is a popular seaside resort and is well known for its bathing place, the Forty Foot, which in the past was reserved for men only but is now available for mixed bathing. The locale features in the opening of ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce. History On 20 December 1940, during World War II, the Luftwaffe bombed the railway station even though Ireland was a neutral country. There were three injuries. Transport Sandycove and Glasthule railway station opened on 11 October 1855. Sandycove is also serviced by Dublin Bus numbers 59 and 111, and lies close to Dún Laoghaire harbour. Culture The writer James Joyce lived for a week as a young man in the Martello Tower situated beside the Forty Foot bathing place at Sandycove. The opening scene of Joyce's '' Ulysses'' is set in this tower. It now hosts a small Joycean museum, open all year round. Bloomsday is celebrated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Ireland
There have been four Provinces of Ireland: Connacht (Connaught), Leinster, Munster, and Ulster. The Irish language, Irish word for this territorial division, , meaning "fifth part", suggests that there were once five, and at times Kingdom_of_Meath, Meath has been considered to be the fifth province; in the medieval period, however, there were often more than five. The number of provinces and their delimitation fluctuated until 1610, when they were permanently set by the English administration of James VI and I, James I. The provinces of Ireland no longer serve administrative or political purposes but function as historical and cultural entities. Etymology In modern Irish language, Irish the word for province is (pl. ). The modern Irish term derives from the Old Irish (pl. ) which literally meant "a fifth". This term appears in 8th-century law texts such as and in the legendary tales of the Ulster Cycle where it refers to the five kingdoms of the "Pentarchy". MacNeill enumer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandycove And Glasthule Railway Station
Sandycove and Glasthule railway station ( ga, Stáisiún Chuas an Ghainimh agus Glas Tuathail) serves the suburban areas of Sandycove (on the coast) and Glasthule (just inland) in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. The building is on a bridge as the rail line is in a cutting. Because of the station's altitude at sea level and the consequent moisture content of the earth, the track at, and surrounding, this station is laid on concrete rather than wooden sleepers. The ticket office is open between 05:45-00:15 AM, Monday to Sunday. History The station opened on 11 October 1855 as ''Kingstown & Sandycove'', renamed ''Sandycove'' in 1861 and ''Sandycove & Glasthule'' in 1967. The station was electrified in 1983 with the arrival of DART services. Transport services There are bus stops right outside the station on Sandycove Road served by the following: Dublin Bus Routes: * 7d - Mountjoy Square to Dalkey, via Dun Laoghaire * 7N Nitelink from Dublin city centre to Shankill, v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Farrell
Bernard Farrell (born 1941) is an Irish dramatist, whose contemporary comedies – both light and dark – have been described as "well-wrought, cleverly shaped with a keen sense of absurdity" and as "dark and dangerous comedy in which characters are poised on the knife-edge between hilarious absurdity and hysterical breakdown". For the Abbey Theatre, he has served as a writer-In-association, as an advisory council member, and as a board director. He lives in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Playwright Born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin. Both his parents were passionate about the theatre and his childhood was filled with attending plays. Following school at CBC Monkstown and further education at People's College Ballsbridge he worked for Sealink until 1980, when he resigned to write full-time for the theatre. Most of his 21-stage plays have been premiered at either the Abbey Theatre or the Gate Theatre in Dublin or at Red Kettle Theatre in Waterford. These include ''I Do Not Like Thee, Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Casement
Roger David Casement ( ga, Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish people, Irish Irish nationalism, nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo Free State, Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul (representative), consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Acoustic Motorbike
''The Acoustic Motorbike'' is the second album by the Irish folk musician Luka Bloom, released in 1992. Its title refers to a joke made by Moore, comparing himself to the "Harley Davidson" that is Eddie Van Halen. Production Recorded in Dublin, the album was produced by Paul Barrett. It includes cover versions of LL Cool J's "I Need Love" and Elvis Presley's " Can't Help Falling in Love". Bloom's brother, Christy Moore, played on the album, as did members of Hothouse Flowers. Bloom used two acoustic guitars, named Rudy and Judy, on ''The Acoustic Motorbike'', often in conjunction with effects pedals. The title track is about bicycling through Ireland; "Listen to the Hoofbeat" is about the mistreatment of Native Americans. Bloom rapped on a few of the album's songs. Critical reception ''Trouser Press'' wrote that the album "leans towards fuller, band-oriented instrumentation ... but it's unfocused, not entirely abandoning ''Riversides simple melodicism but not forwarding that albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luka Bloom
Luka Bloom (born Kevin Barry Moore; 23 May 1955) is an Irish folk singer-songwriter. He is the younger brother of folk singer Christy Moore. Early life Kevin Barry Moore was born on 23 May 1955 in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. His parents were Andy Moore and Nancy Power, who had already raised three daughters and two other sons. Moore attended a Patrician Brothers primary school and later studied at Newbridge College. In college he formed the group Aes Triplex with his brother Andy and a school friend. He later attended a college in Limerick, but he dropped out after a couple of years to pursue a music career. Early career as Barry Moore In 1969, 14 year old Barry Moore embarked on a tour supporting his eldest brother, Christy, at various English folk clubs. He subsequently spent all of his spare time practicing and writing music. In 1976, Christy recorded one of his songs "Wave up to the Shore". In 1977, Barry Moore toured Germany and England as part of the group In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortality
Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality. Mortality may also refer to: * Fish mortality, a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of fish in a fish stock through death * ''Mortality'' (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens * Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration * Mortality rate, a measure for the rate at which deaths occur in a given population * Mortality/differential attrition, an error in the internal validity of a scientific study See also * Case fatality rate, the proportion of deaths within a designated population of people with a medical condition * Cause of death * Fulminant * Mortality displacement, a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality * Mortality rate or death rate * Mortality salience Mortality salience is the awareness by individuals that their d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspending Disbelief
''Suspending Disbelief'' is the eighth album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released in September 1993 by Elektra Records. Production ''Suspending Disbelief'' was recorded in February and March 1993 at The Site and Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California, Russian Hill Recording in San Francisco, and Johnny Yuma Recording in Los Angeles. The album was mixed at Record One in Los Angeles. Critical reception In his review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann wrote that ''Suspending Belief'' contains Webb's "most straightforward, plainspoken writing yet" and that the songwriter "seems better able to perform his music now than at any time in the past." Ruhlmann continued: The AllMusic website gave the album four out of five stars. Glen Campbell would record four tracks on this album for his final album, '' Adios''. Track listing Personnel ;Music * Jimmy Webb – vocals, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, arranger, conductor * Linda Ronstadt – vocals, backing vocals * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including " Up, Up and Away", " By the Time I Get to Phoenix", " MacArthur Park", " Wichita Lineman", " Worst That Could Happen", "Galveston" and " All I Know". He had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, the 5th Dimension, the Supremes, Art Garfunkel and Richard Harris. Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006 and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the 50 years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to receive Grammy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Scott (architect)
Michael Scott (24 June 1905 – 24 January 1989) was an Irish architect whose buildings included the Busáras building in Dublin, Cork Opera House, the Abbey Theatre and both Tullamore and Portlaoise Hospitals. Early life and education He was born in Drogheda in 1905. His family originated in the Province of Munster. His father, William Scott, was a school inspector from near Sneem on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. His mother was from County Cork. Michael was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin. There he first demonstrated his skills at painting and acting. Initially, he wanted to pursue a career as a painter but his father pointed out that it might make more financial sense to become an architect. Career Scott became an apprentice for the sum of £375 per annum to the Dublin architectural firm Jones and Kelly. He remained there from 1923 until 1926, where he studied under Alfred E. Jones. In the evenings after work, he also attended the Metropolitan School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant Garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), p. 64 . It is frequently characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability.Kostelanetz, Richard, ''A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes'', Routledge, May 13, 2013 The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomsday
Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel ''Ulysses (novel), Ulysses'' takes place in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom. Name The English Compound (linguistics), compound word ''Bloomsday'' is usually used in Irish as well, though some publications call it :ga:Lá Bloom, Lá Bloom. First celebration The first mention of such a celebration is to be found in a letter by Joyce to Miss Weaver of 27 June 1924, which refers to "a group of people who observe what they call Bloom's day – 16 June". On the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel, in 1954, John Ryan (Dublin artist), John Ryan (artist, critic, publican and founder of ''Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, Envoy'' magazine) and the novelist Brian O'Nolan organised what was to be a daylong pilgrima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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