Showing posts with label Trinity College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trinity College. Show all posts

Saturday 28 February 2015

Drovers and drivers on the North Circular

Here's an old photo of a herd of cattle  on the North Circular Road in Dublin. Yeah, we really did have regular cattle drives up and down those streets back then. Not exactly John Ford or John Wayne, maybe, but just as "awesome" in their own little way...


Friday 9 January 2015

Sightings of Bono before the ban

Sightings of Bono began life as a short story by Irish writer Gerard Beirne in the Sunday Tribune in 1995. It went on to be anthologised, and read by Pauline McGlynn in BBC Radio 4's Late Story slot in 1998 and 1999.

It also became a short film. One that's already beginning to show its age, in the nicest possible sense...