My Dublin Life

A friend of mine just rang to invite me to a show in Tallaght, which is a big, sprawling suburb on the outskirts of the city where I rarely go, just because I live in the city centre and everything is on my doorstep. But Tallaght is at the foot of the Dublin mountains, and it must be nice to be able to get into your car and be in the countryside in moments.Anyway, the show is on in a place out there called the Civic Theatre. It looks interesting from the write-up --- but is is something that a non-Irish person will really understand? I guess I'm feeling closer and closer to being Irish myself, so maybe I should go!Gosh, when you live in the city centre it's easy to forget how big Dublin is. ...

The Project Theatre, one of my favourites, is actually putting on a play called the Colleen Bawn soon.The reason for all my excitement is that I went and Googled it (I love the Project and often try to go to their shows) and found out that the story is a true story based on the tragic death of a young girl in the early 19th century.The funny thing is that this is a story that my grandmother used to tell me and, according to her, we are actually relatives of the original Colleen Bawn!!! It's a very sad story about a very young girl from a humble family who married a member of the aristocracy who later got bored of her and had her killed :-(Thanks to Google, I know now that it is also a play that ...

Motherhood seems to make people feel guilty. And I should probably feel guilty too, because I benefit a lot from the guilt of the Mom I work for on Saturdays. Because she's busy in her boutique, I have to watch her kids, and because she feels bad about not spending Saturdays with them, she generally arranges for my to do fun things with them, and now that I've kind of got the knack of keeping them reasonably well behaved, I enjoy those fun things too!This weekend, for instance, I'll be taking them to the The Ark to attend a sort of artist-in-residence thing which sounds like I'll likely enjoy it even more than they will! I love that place. Everyone is always so over-excited there, and that's ...

Between my three part-time jobs, I'm busy, busy, busy, so it might seem crazy but I'm thinking of volunteering to help out at the Dun Laoighire Festival of World Cultures which is on in two weeks' time. I went to this last year and it was truly amazing. They have performers from literally all over the world, mostly free, and it's really a tremendous buzz. A friend of mine told me that they're looking for volunteers to help coordinate things and I'm thinking that that might be a load of fun, and you never know, I might get to meet some of the performers. I'd definitely be interested in meeting, oh, I don't know, Brazilian dancers or something!After a few days of rain, we're bathed in sunshine ...