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Well I went up to the big smoke the weekend and the Trad Fest was on in Temple Bar the place was buzzing on Saturday and Sunday ..... a real good atmosphere for all the family, everyone was catered for. Plenty of ballads to sing along to...Temple Bar seems to be one of the areas holding onto the tradititional Irish music scene it's great to hear all the Irish songs.
I had an opportunity to also visit the National Phohotgraphic Library, Temple Bar http://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-exhibitions.aspx an exhibition called Power and Privilage which consisted of numerous photographs taken from the late 1800's of the large houses in Ireland.
I also got to visit the Oliver Spears gallery which had many well known artists work on display from Sean Hillen, Robert Motherwell and Anslem Keifer oliver spears gallery .
Then I seen Turner's watercolours in the National Gallery unfortunataly that finished to-day as these paintings are only on show in the Winter due to the light as the watercolours would fade , I was well impressed the colours and the sheer detail in the works especially the very small paintings.
I also went to the Kerlin gallery too http://www.kerlin.ie/exhibitions/Present-Exhibitions.aspx. So all in all a very cultural weekend..... Back to the paint brush for me....a lot of work to be done.
Will be visiting the boat on Thursday can't wait to see it so watch this space for the next installment!
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Iris I am raging I never knew you were around. I was working in Temple Bar for the Trad Fest doing kids workshops and could have met up after. Anyhow the puppets around were all from Bui Bolg and they had loads of different people from around the counties doing the little scenarios around Temple Bar. I finished quite late so never got time to see much but next time hopefully... you are so lucky you get to go to Dublin so often.
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ReplyDeleteAh that's a pity, there was a great atmosphere up there. Yes, I am lucky I love Dublin too, of course family and friends are there. But I have the best of both world's really.
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