“This is a picture of my friend and his dog Rebel on our regular walk out to the Poolbeg Lighthouse on the Great South Wall recently.”
This is a picture of my friend and his dog Rebel on our regular walk out to the Poolbeg Lighthouse on the Great South Wall recently. I captured this image in a split second. Just saw the shot and bang! It only took the squeeze of the button, and the moment was saved for eternity. I knew looking at the picture that it had something special about it.
My name is Andrew O’Connell, aka The Liberties Photographer. Born and reared in the community of St Teresa’s Gardens in the Liberties. I have been taking photographs of the Liberties on and off for 30 years. My new website is live now at andrewoconnell.ie. Feel free to drop by and say hello.
Dublin Inquirer is running a Photo of the Month competition each month. The winner gets €50 and publication online and in print. If you’d like to enter, you can find the guidelines here.
Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Filmmaker Sarah Share’s “The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry” tells the story of the Mississippi-born musician, who is now living in Ireland.
