On Monday, the National Transport Authority published a tender looking for someone to help it plan and oversee the roll-out of red-light and speed cameras.
In this new book, animal exploitation is used as a lens to reflect the changing social, cultural and ideological fabric of the city of Dublin as it moved towards a new model of urban civilisation in the nineteenth century.
The jumping-off point for the exhibition is the way that living life on Zoom and other virtual platforms leaves people “with a false sense of community”, says Aoife Banks, one of the artists.
John Gunn misses the conversations with customers, he says. Those are why, in normal times, he still mans the counter, 26 years after he was meant to retire.
Seán Keenan and Gearóid Peggs – buddies “separated by sea, producing remotely from Dublin and London” – have spent the longest year recording nostalgic tunes.
In this first English-language edition of an Irish-language classic, Seosamh Mac Grianna “writes with searing honesty on topics that engage or provoke him” in his travels in Dublin city, and Wales.
“Like dogtooth dresses, white-stripe boating blazers or block-heeled shoes, this book is sure to appeal to those who have lived, loved and revived the Dublin mod scene.”
