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As some people may be aware, Tom Raftery (a good sort, from my small dealings with him) is part of a not-for-profit group called IT@Cork. They've been arranging an "it@cork Web 2. 0 half-day conference".
Poetry, as I mentioned last week, is so filled with distilled meaning that it can be read only at a fraction of the pace of prose. Thus, Seamus Heaney’s Opened Ground, which I bought a month and a half ago, is an ongoing presence in my reading life.
After a bit of a rethink and a rejiggle, I've come back with a rather more polished edition of the National Gallery of Ireland Guide podcast. This week (yes, I'm still aiming for weekly) I talk about Francis Denby's The Opening Of The Sixth Seal. It is a huge, gloomy picture of the apocalypse that used to entrance me as a child.
This week I talk about Francis Denby’s The Opening Of The Sixth Seal. It is a huge, gloomy picture of the apocalypse that used to entrance me as a child. I discuss the sublime, Romanticism, the campaign for emacipation of slaves and quote the Bible all in less than 5 minutes.
I alluded, in a comment on my post below on Langston Hughes, to the minor political row which was prompted by John Kerry quoting him a few times in his speeches. Hughes was a commie for a while, you see, so John Kerry must be one too (though to follow this logic any further, one would have to conclude that Kerry is also a dead black poet).
I may not be trying to buy my way into your affections with fivers in brown envelopes, unlike some people, but I can still offer goodies to readers. The Mental is a play in the Axis Theatre in the new Arts Centre in Ballymun. My sister, Róisín McGarr, (who you may have seen in last Saturday's Irish Examiner) is the producer.
Poetry is harder work than prose. Certainly its harder to write, but it takes more out of the reader too, being distilled and concentrated with meaning in a way that most prose is not. For example, I'm currently working my way through Shakespeare's Sonnets at a rate of only five or six per evening.
Gareth Stack, author of the wildly popular Why Do We Bebo? article which has skewed tuppenceworth's statistics ever since it was published (top 5 search results- bebo, BEBO, Bebo + ie and Bebo skins) has posted a follow up on his own blog Hummingbird Mentality called The Next Bebo.
I spent some time over the weekend asking questions about the relationship between Balor of the Evil Eye and Croagh Patrick. Anyone who's been to Westport will realise that this is a mountain with powerful magical connotations. The fact that the Church had to claim it for their No.
I see today that Play. com is now saying"We are sorry, but we can only supply gadgets to UK addresses. You must choose a UK delivery address for this order.
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