I’ve loved R.E.M. a lot, ever since John gave me Shiny Happy People back in 2007. I’d have considered Out of Time to be their best album (it brought you Losing My Religion!), but with the release of Collapse Into Now I think that’s changed. The above song is probably my favourite track from the [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not able to do Jekyll and Hyde with my Youth Theatre over the next couple of months. There’s just too much going on for me to try and take on another show that I know next to nothing about. I will do the smaller variety show we’ve got [...]
I was talking to my aunt yesterday about my blog and she was saying how she loved the personal posts but would get lost when trying to read the technical ones. The same thing works in reverse too — I know people who read this blog who have no interest in the personal posts and [...]
I know that I haven’t even been home a fortnight and I’m already getting nostalgic about my time in America, which is probably lame. Still, I was looking for a photo in my library to show a friend and saw this one. I thought that it summed up my time in America pretty well, if [...]
Forget media as a career — I should choose my future vocation based on what I showed an early interest in as a child. That’s a first edition Green man on a wood background that’s currently housed under top security in my aunt and uncle’s house… on the underside of their kitchen table. So Leonardo [...]
I woke up this morning to a tweet from my friend Orla counting down the days until Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the movie. The release of that film really does mark the end of an era. I don’t think any film or book series has much of a sub-culture around [...]
Back in July, I did Journalism in CTYI, which took place in DCU. The class do a short newspaper each year, chronicling events that took place over the 3 weeks. This was one of my articles for it: _______ Béibhinn Irish Cummins and Tommy Collison caught up with DCU’s President Brian Mac Craith in what [...]
Arrived home on Friday afternoon from my three weeks at the Centre for Talented Youth (CTYI) in DCU. I’m trying to balance writing this quickly to make sure I don’t forget anything important with making sure I’ve thought this post through to make sure that everything is correct. I suppose we’ll start with a brief [...]
Ian Fleming is probably the most famous detective writer of the 20th century. Certainly, he created the most iconic movie character ever to appear in cinemas worldwide: James Bond. He lived just like his character too – he enjoyed living in exotic locations (he wrote his books in a home in Jamaica), was a heavy smoker [...]
Today’s post is a guest post from Dad, who reminisces on his own dad (my grandfather) and gardening. *** All the children’s tales begin with “Long, long ago” or in the Irish Storyteller way “In my father’s time”, so maybe its appropriate that I start some reminiscences about my childhood and my parents in this [...]