Thinking, as I often do, about the time Yahoo News thought "Zooey Deschanel divorces Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard" meant she had left a man named Death Cab to pursue a relationship with the lead singer of the band Cutie
Just updated my website with a post about the latest audio drama I've worked on. https://t.co/efGuyYFVxR #AudioDrama
Culture in Dublin is dying. We haven’t had the McRib in almost 2 decades.
It would be remiss of me to tweet about board games on a Tuesday night without mentioning the Board Games Ireland meetup that's on in @onthesquareball on Tue nights. All welcome, there's usually a large crowd.
We just released the 4th episode of the Board Games Ireland podcast which is a spin off from the meet up group I set up 4 years ago. We just hit 2500 members in the group.
We experimented with recording a play through of game in the latest episode. You can hear all 4 episodes in the below play list:
This is a new website I’ve been working on for the past year or so in Near FM. And we launched it just last night.
Near Archive is a digital audio database of interviews, which were originally broadcast on Near FM’sflagship community affairs programme Northside Today between the years 2011 and 2016.
The content reflects upon the themes of Irish Culture, Life and Experience with a particular emphasis on local arts and culture, local news, history, heritage and community events. There are currently over 1000 interviews in the database.
Near Archive has been assembled with the input of expert partners including the Digital Repository of Ireland and Dublin City Council Library and Archive. In addition a cross-sectoral approach to archiving has been established through CRAOL, the national body for community radio.
Near Archive can be accessed by visiting www.archive.ie where content can be streamed or downloaded and runs on a Creative Commons license.
Partners and Funders
Near FM www.near.ie
CRAOL (Community Radio Ireland) www.craol.ie
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland www.bai.ie
Digital Repository of Ireland www.dri.ie
Dublin City Library & Archive www.dublincity.ie
CDETB www.cityofdublin.etb.ie
INTREO www.welfare.ie/intreo
Episodes 5 and 6 of audio drama Rivitn’ History have now been broadcast and are available for download.
You can catch up on the first 4 episodes here:
Next up is a new comedy series called ‘Shopping for Beginners’. We just finished recorded it and I currently have it in post production.
Had a go at recording a podcast about board gaming for my Board Games Ireland meet up group.
In the first of hopefully many podcasts we discussed the following:
Another 1916 project I worked on this year was a series of talks that took place in Coolock Library dealing with the role of women in the 1916 Rising. There was an impressive turnout at these talks.
