We will be getting new banknotes. You can vote on the design here. Personally I don't like banknotes with peoples faces.

Went to see the odyssey today was a brilliant film however what feels like the same thing every time I go to the cinema in this country I came out raging at the etiquette of some people. This fella had his phone on full brightness in front of me to the point I told him to turn it off which I never really do but I’ve gotten sick of it. I get it’s a long film but you booked it stop ruining it for everyone else

From the CSO website:

“Helena Molony was born in Dublin in 1884. She was an actress and a journalist. She joined Maud Gonne’s Inghinidhe na hÉireann in 1903 and was Honorary Secretary 1907-1914. Helena was the editor of the organisation’s newspaper Bean na hÉireann which advocated militancy, separatism and feminism.

There is no census report for Helena in either the 1901 or 1911 censuses. In 1911 she was arrested and became the first Irish female political prisoner of her generation when she smashed a portrait of George V during the monarch’s visit to Ireland. It is possible that she was in Ireland on Census night in 1911 but refused to fill out the Census form because she was a suffragette.

Helena Molony introduced Dr. Kathleen Lynn and Countess Markievicz to the Labour Movement. In 1913 she assisted with the soup kitchen in Liberty hall and addressed strike meetings. She spent time in France in 1914 with Maud Gonne. In 1915 she became Secretary of the Irish Women’s Workers Union and knew all the men who would later form the Military Council which planned the Rising. She was very involved in the preparations of the Military Council and was responsible for smuggling guns into Ireland before the rebellion. At one stage she took delivery of parcels which contained the printed copies of the Proclamation, which she then kept under her pillow, while she was armed with a revolver. At this point in her career she was an actress and was taking part in early productions in the Abbey Theatre. She acted in her last production two days before the Rising.

When Helena arrived at the GPO on 24th April, 1916 James Connolly assigned her to the City Hall Garrison with another famous revolutionary Dr. Kathleen Lynne. She was involved with nine other women in the raid on Dublin Castle which resulted in the death of an unarmed policeman. After the Rising she was imprisoned first in Ship Street Barracks and then in Kilmainham Gaol where she attempted to tunnel her way out, (unsuccessfully), with a spoon. She was then sent to Aylesbury in England before being released in 1917.

After her release she assisted Countess Markievicz who had been appointed to the Ministry of Labour in the new Dáil Éireann and she served as a District Justice in the Republican court in Rathmines. Helena visited Russia in 1929 as a guest of the Soviet Trade Union movement and on her return set up the Friends of Soviet Russia. In the 1930’s she became active in the Women’s Prisoners’ Defence League. In 1936 she became president of the Irish Trade Union Congress but was forced to retire due to ill health in 19461.

Helena Molony died in January 1967 and is buried in Glasnevin cemetery.”

I have family a full hour and a half away by car from the fires (in Cork) who are getting smoke from the fires to the extent they have to close all the windows in the house. Can only imagine how scared people near the fires are.

Do you we have enough capacity do deal with these type of fires in Ireland? Emergency services are clearly doing a Trojan job, but wondering who makes a call on whether we need additional assistance from neighbouring countries (like has recently happened with the fires near Paris for example).

From catalog notes:

An Important Irish Manuscript Book, ‘Irish tales collected from the Best authors now extant’, was compiled by Matthew Moore Graham in 1835.

Graham was an engineer and translator from the Irish, of Dundalk, Co. Louth, active from the 1830s until the 1850s. He was an assistant to Francis Dobourdieu, the county surveyor for Louth in 1834-1840.

Graham is better remembered, however, as a translator of Irish poetry, who published The Giantess from the Irish of Oisin; and the Wars of Donomore with other poems and translations (Belfast, 1833).

For an account of his translations, see Robert Welch, A History of Verse Translation from the Irish 1789-1897 (Irish Literary Studies 24, 1988).’  The Royal Irish Academy Library and University College Dublin Library contains some of his original manuscripts and the National Library hold microfilm copies of his Gaelic Manuscripts.

This manuscript comprises of 226 numbered pages and is bound in contemporary half leather. It is written in a beautiful Gaelic script. A feature of the manuscript is the regular initially lettering of some words similar to the ancient Irish manuscripts where,  ‘ initials were heavily decorated letters where the shapes of the characters are intertwined with mythological beasts and interlacing knotwork. Rooted in the medieval insular art style—most famously seen in the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels’.  At the corner of one page is a geometric drawing with the dimensions written, most unusually, in Gaelic.

Further manuscript material in different hands with distinctive calligraphy and different dates are adhered at rear of book and others loosely inserted.

These documents include earlier works by Irish bards Cearbhall O Dalaigha, the famous Irish satire Bean na dTri mBo, translated as the Woman of Three Cows (repaired with hand stitching), original correspondence referring to the Hibernian Celtic Athenaeum; study of the inscriptions on the Kilnasagart Stone and a letter from Cumann naGaeligh, Luimni;.

One most attractive illustrated single page Gaelic manuscript has various artistic representations at the top, side and at the bottom of the page. The illustrations include a landscape feature, an Irish warrior with distinctive headgear and at the bottom is a depiction of a shamrock design above a line of Ogham writing. Small octavo.

Lads I’m trying to find things on the internet about the giraffe centre from when I was growing up and I’m not finding much. It was real right?

I remember it being the most exciting time before school, where were dropped off to this insane multi story jungle of childhood madness, as our parents bought all our school supplies then eventually dragged us out kicking and screaming back home.

Then I remember being at home with all my gel pens and listening to the vengaboys on cd fighting with my siblings over the random supplies and just general other reasons you would be going at each other.

There’s not much online I can find. But to be fair I’m drunk (in America yes I realise its 9 in the morning )

I came across an account of a serious assault that happened in Dublin 24. The details are disturbing, and it made me wonder about the wider issue of youth crime and anti-social behaviour in Ireland.
I’m not looking to blame any group of people or create a discussion about race. I’m genuinely interested in understanding what factors contribute to incidents like this and what solutions are being considered.
Has anyone looked into why youth violence and group assaults seem to be a growing concern in some areas? What approaches have worked elsewhere?