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James Gorry, third generation specialist picture restorer, with Dr. Amélie Dochy, author of A Scot in Victorian Ireland, Erskine Nicol’s Paintings of Irishness, at the opening of a new exhibition at the Gorry Gallery, Dublin.
Déjà vu .. current events at #Drumcree and #GarvaghyRoad are depressing. Some years after reporting on the stand-offs of 1998 and 1999, I wrote a verse play, Deirdre Unforgiven, to get what I’d witnessed out of my system. Today, peace hangs in the balance.
A contact sheet pic of the Orange Order attempting, unsuccessfully, to march on Garvaghy Road in 1999. Essentially, there’s no need for it. Their display stokes tension, causes fear and is potentially dangerous. Parades Commission? #CeremonialSword
In Hodges Higgis to buy a gift for a friend and .. boom.. there’s my book (and cover star Charles O’Connor) looking back at me. Always a buzz. Almost Made This Place My Own @dubwherewereyou