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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]
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
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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