Results for tag: ireland

John Boorman has made a film about the ugly side of ‘new Ireland’. It’s always seemed pretty obvious to me, maybe rose-tinted glasses are more common than I thought.

Here’s a documentary about bicycle messengers in Dublin. As it was made for TG4, most of the couriers speak Irish/Gaelic, which adds a nice local colour to it all. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Cá Bhfuil Na Gaeilg eoirí?

Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Joyce ‘n’ Beckett. Marvelous.

This story from Galway is surreal. And who knew there was an “Unlawful Accommodation of Donkeys Act 1837” in Ireland?

Jonathan Olley’s photographs of Northern Ireland’s reinforced police stations, guard towers and army barracks.

Ireland's other crisis: horses. Bought during the boom as status symbols, now abandoned and left to roam.