Colly Dawson
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Colly Dawson
@ColmJDawson
Magician, Mentalist, Weddings, Corporate Entertainment. MC, TV Warm up guy for FoxTV Name That Tune & The Floor with Rob Lowe
Ireland Katılım Ekim 2010
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Here we go so much energy and thought to bring an old pub to George’s street, wait till you see the food pub classics done with a twist 👨🍳
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From a homeless Marine vet to a world-famous musician…
My incredible journey unfolds in my memoir,
“Huey Morgan: The Fun Lovin' Criminal,"
out this September.
Discover the grit, passion, and triumphs that shaped a music legend.
Pre-order now and join my global story!
Link in bio!
#HueyMorgan #FunLovinCriminal
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@USAmbIreland @MichealMartinTD Thank you for all your great work with young people and for extending an invitation to them to visit you in the Deerfield residence.
The young men and woman from my community enjoyed it immensely. @stkevinsdublin @BeneavinCollege & @stmarysglasnev
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The Lord Mayor of Dublin @EmmaBlain welcomed Finglas United Football for all to the Mansion House in her first event as Lord Mayor of Dublin, where the achievements of the children were celebrated.
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@conor_pope Use Cash on your night out.
You won’t overspend that way and you will get served quicker at the bar.
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If you could share just one fool proof tip that has saved you a few bob over the festive period that is looming what would it be?
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📣 📣 We’re delighted to announce the release of our brand new song ‘The Old Stomping Ground’!! Out Nov 1st 2024!!
We can’t wait for you all to hear it!!
Big Love, TRM x
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@ColmJDawson The airline lost the bag, landed on set just as we were about to film!
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30 years!
What a film, what a cast, and what an iconic scene, wearing the Frames shirt that nearly didn't make it x
#PulpFiction
Samuel L. Jackson@SamuelLJackson
PULP FICTION is 30! This movie launched like a rocket out of Cannes and changed my life. It debuted in theaters on this day in 1994 and I’ll always remember the audience reaction. I knew this film was something special after that…AND 30 YEARS LATER, IT STILL IS.
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Maybe my favourite one of them all . . . Best mate, Best Breakfast Show, Best night . . . #IMRO24 @radionova100 @pjgallagher @ClintDrieberg 🏆
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@RobLooseCannon I attended a play there in 1991 was lovely intimate theatre.
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There’s an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busáras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated 240 people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin, first cited by Ptolemy in 140 CE.
Eblana`s brutalist design, without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture, was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busáras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent, as was the intimate ambience.
The main Busáras structure took six years to build, construction starting in 1947 and finishing in 1953, at a then stratospheric cost over £1 million. And it was controversial from the start. This modern piece of architecture was paradoxically dated looking from the get-go.
The Eblana Theatre itself opened on the 17th of September 1959. For the first two years, the vaguely depressing theatre entertained passengers until their buses came, showing newsreel clips on a cinema screen.
Thespian and director Phyllis Ryan`s(1920 –2011) Gemini Productions drama company took over the lease and showcased the idiosyncratic little space during the Dublin Theatre Festival. This prestigious, independent alternative to the Abbey Theatre championed playwrights like John B. Keane Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. But even this veneer of artistic glamour did little to elevate the Eblana.
One constant source of scorn against the little space was its placement close to the large seedy bus station public toilets. Anecdotes abounded of intoxicated travellers strolling into the middle of a play, seeking a place to take a leak before their bus arrived. This led to the witty insult that Busáras had "The only public toilet in Dublin with its own theatre."
After Gemini productions parted ways the Andrew's Lane Theatre briefly took over, then the Northside Theatre Company. Eblana`s days were numbered, and it closed in 1995.
There was much talk of refurbishment and relaunch as the new home of the Fry Model Railway in 2012. However, the estimated millions in funding never manifested.
The most recent plan was converting the unique space in to a training centre for Bus Éireann staff, with Dublin City Council granting planning permission. This is earmarked to happen when Bus Éireann relocates its headquarters from Broadstone to the Busáras site.
Until then, though, the errie theatre has become a bizarre time capsule. Its tattered seats, creaking floorboards, and peeling posters gently dilapidating in the subterranean Dublin air.
The abandoned auditorium feels like a spectral audience and cast has just stepped out a moment ago, as if it could very easily screen horror movies to an assembly of ghosts at night after the rest of Busáras has shut up shop and gone home.
SOURCES:
Irish Theatre Archive and the Irish Architecture Foundation.
irishacademicpress.ie/product/the-di…
dublininquirer.com/2017/08/30/bel…
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Stop Making Sense is on in the Lighthouse Cinema for a fiver tomorrow night. You're welcome.
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This sausage and bean stew is one of the staples of my diet, and it’s absolutely beautiful. It doesn’t take too long to make, is very cheap, and is full of healthy ingredients.
In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!
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