“I took this photo at around 9.30am on a Sunday morning walk with my one-year-old son.”
I took this photo at around 9.30am on a Sunday morning walk with my one-year-old son. It was a beautiful, warm morning, but I was surprised to see how early people were out fishing. The combination of the sunlight, sea and scenery made it very picturesque.
I grew up in Killiney, but I never tire of seeing Dalkey Island or the sea. Especially from Colliemore Harbour (which is actually the smallest harbour in the world), as it just frames the boats and Dalkey Island around it.
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.
