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Requiem for Dublin street traders
EXISTENTIAL THREAT: The closing of marketplaces and the eradication of traditional street traders
[Pic: D Speirs/On and Alive Alive O]
ROGER McKENZIE suggest this book is used as a resource to help spark resistance to the rise of nuclear power
The allies of the US, like our own country, end up dominated and cowed, concludes ALEX HALL
Read my lips: Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn (Uninhabited Summer Houses), Rethink Everything
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys an imaginative revival of the dance classic
MARIA DUARTE and JOHN GREEN review Michael, The North, Exit 8, Rose of Nevada
OVER the years the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith has presented many films by Ireland’s celebrated, documentary filmmaker Se Merry Doyle.
In this double bill Looking On and Alive Alive O – A Requiem for Dublin it is showing two of his most powerful films, which complement each other. Both focus on the destruction of Dublin’s inner city and the demolition of hundreds of homes and tenement dwellings.
Looking On was Merry Doyle’s first film, made in 1982. Forty years later it still stands as a vital voice for the people of Dublin.
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