Fire Destroys legendary Horslips venue

Former ballroom destroyed in fire

An overnight blaze has destroyed the building which once housed the Astoria Ballroom in Bundoran, County Donegal.

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The building had been closed since 2006 when part of it was used as a bar.

Horslips Siting on LiveJournal

Spotted whilst experimenting with the new Google personal search tools:

Rodney Orpheus on Horslips

Beautiful Video featuring Ace and Duece

Rescue Me (RNLI Tribute)

Embedding was restored after I conversed with the director of this beautiful video!



Many other videos at the lukessummer channel worth the visit.

Barry Devlin's Bass and Friends

Also spotted on Flickr

Eamon Carr in Halifax, Nova Scotia circa 1976

Spotted on Flickr:

Eamon Carr reads from Origami Crow in Limerick

Eamon Carr reads from Origami Crow on Balcony TV

Eamon Carr reads from Origami Crow this Wednesday

Part of my recent adventures includes attending the book launch for Eamon Carr's Origami Crow. Here's an upcoming reading:

White House Poetry Revival Wed 19th Nov 2008

Eamon Carr has been a significant figure in the Irish artistic and cultural scene for many years. In the late 1960s he co-founded Tara Telephone, the music and poetry group of the Dublin beat scene.Tara Telephone published everyone from Marc Bolan to Allan Ginsberg, Brian Patten, Seamus Heaney, Pearse Hutchinson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Brendan Kennelly, Adrian Mitchell, Pete Brown in their magazines and broadsheets. The group also ran recitals. Among those who read with Tara Telephone, in addition to Eamon and Peter Fallon were Phil Lynott and Roger McGough. With Jim Fitzpatrick, the group also produced specially designed posters with artwork and poems combined. One of these posters with Eamon's poem 'A Tale of Love' was exhibited in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005 which also toured in Germany and Austria.

For more on this poetry series, visit the Limerick.com site.

FanTasia Launch on Official Horslips