Bangordub

Political, demographic, social commenter

[Suzanne Breen @SuzyJourno]

EXCLUSIVE: The bodies of 2 young men were found in a car in South Armagh in 1983. Their families have confronted an informer - recruited by Robert Nairac - they claim set up the double execution. They break their silence on a deadly world of spies & lies.
https://t.co/5eornjLOJF

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

The real story of Ben Lowry's sudden departure as News Letter editor ten days ago, involving corporate brutality, newsroom turmoil, questions over the historic paper's future and the new owner's decision that this emaciated paper doesn't need an editor.
https://t.co/BZAWmGeYBm

[Bangordub @Bangordub]

Truth drops so slowly sometimes.............. https://t.co/0tnpb51DSV

[SweetIrishGhirl @Newrygal1]

Iv heard some absol belters by Americans about their visits here but fuckin hell this lads on another planet!
Abducted by the ra in sligo after they killed 50 people hours earlier & he preached the bible to them 😂😂😂

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

First ever bi-lingual signage has been put up in Belfast's Gaeltacht area.

🚸Irish comes first
🚧Exact same font & size
🚏No italics vs capitals
✅Colour to differentiate

Go hiontach ar fad! 🇮🇪🙌

[Bangordub @Bangordub]

Oh Colm. you grew up in Doire, yet you defer to westminster, how far you have fallen https://t.co/m0Aentq3eQ

[Bangordub @Bangordub]

An awful day IMO - @Postvox closes one of their best buildings and one where many people depend upon it. Awful decision. They have decided, in their, ahem, "wisdom" to relocate to a backroom of the local Centra. This is appalling and disgraceful

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Belfast went back in time on Saturday to showcase the city's role in the 1798 Rebellion.

United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken returned as part of a historical re-enactment which was part of the second Spirit of '98 Festival.

Beginning at the Belfast Assembly Rooms, where McCracken was tried by court martial, participants portraying United Irishmen, red-coated soldiers and historical figures including his sister, Mary Ann McCracken, made their way through the city centre.

🎥: Mal McCann

[Bangordub @Bangordub]

Redefining the unionist narrative - as usual, again https://t.co/RepiMfeUeB

[Belfast News Letter @News_Letter]

Reform and NI unionists blast nationalist government in Wales over using term 'North of Ireland' in official business https://t.co/SUSDpl0Jo7

[Bangordub @Bangordub]

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[Bangordub @Bangordub]

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[The Irish News @irish_news]

The Orange Order Grand Secretary, Presbyterian Minister and former RUC Special Branch officer speaks to Denzil McDaniel about parades, bonfires and why he won’t invite Sinn Féin to Schomberg House.

Read the interview: https://t.co/Ner2zWCGNd

[Bangordub @Bangordub]

Battle of the "Boyle" .... Have our Mayo or Roscommon friends been warned of this yet?

[Belfast News Letter @News_Letter]

Orangefest to bring family fun and culture to Belfast as part of Battle of the Boyle demonstration https://t.co/69K8vQXZ0q

[Sara O'Neill 🐚 @SaraONeillArt]

British people of the 21st century DID pay. In 2015 UK tax payers finished paying an almost two centuries old debt, money that was paid to the ‘OWNERS’ of enslaved people in the 1830s, who deserved no such payment for their vile actions.

How does an MP seemingly not know this?

[Danny Morrison @molloy1916]

Caoilte Breatnach on his writing the character JJ Hynes
https://t.co/v9Hve3x25b

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

They called him the painter of the poor, but artist Walter Frederick Osborne's name is not as famous with average Dubliners as it should be. Born in Rathmines in 1859, he turned his eye toward the street vendors, barefoot children, and stooped elderly women who populated the margins of city life. His canvases recorded the daily hardship of the urban poor with a quiet, observational dignity you feel like you could step in to.

He was the second of three sons born to William Osborne, a respected animal painter who made his name painting racehorses and beloved dogs for the gentry. But as the landed class declined in fortune during the 1880s, so too did the family’s financial security.

His Da shifted to painting household pets. Walter followed suit in his youth, learning early that art could feed a family. Even with these subjects though art historian Julian Campbell observed Osborne “eschews the overly sentimental or literary quality of Victorian genre painting for something more grounded and sincere".

Educated at Rathmines School and then at the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools, his promise was evident from the start. He won the coveted Taylor Prize twice in the early 1880s, which took him to Antwerp to study at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten.

There, under the influence of Rubens, he honed his skills as a realist. A stint in Brittany followed, in the artists' haven of Quimperlé, where he painted Apple Gathering, one of his most celebrated early works.

But Dublin called him back. From the 1880s onward, Osborne developed a unique body of street-level documentary painting. Scenes of children hawking newspapers, women queuing for bread, booksellers on the quays. Osborne gave faces to the faceless and painted beauty into the background noise of ordinary existence.

His Dublin Streets: A Vendor of Books (1889) is emblematic and one of me favourite paintings of Dublin. These works were years ahead of their time in subject and style. Yet they did not sell. Ireland, in the throes of social upheaval and nationalist aspiration, had little appetite for the kind of honesty Osborne offered.

Portraiture then became his bread and butter. From his studio at No. 7 St. Stephen’s Green, Osborne painted the sons and daughters of the prosperous middle class, and in 1900 he won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle for Mrs Noel Guinness and her Daughter Margaret. He was even offered a knighthood that same year, he declined!

Despite the public success, his private life was marked by restraint and quiet responsibility. After his sister died, Osborne took on care for her daughter. His ageing parents depended on him too, both emotionally and financially. The vibrant social life one might expect of such a well-connected and widely liked man was secondary to his domestic obligations.

In 1903, while gardening, Osborne overheated himself and developed pneumonia. He tragically died on the 24th of April, aged just 43. He was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, not far from the streets he had immortalised. Some critics believe he was on the cusp of artistic greatness when he died. Others suggest he had already reached it.

Writing in 1943, Stephen Gwynn remembered him fondly: “I never knew a man who seemed more likely than Walter Osborne to live to a happy and vigorous old age.” That he didn’t remains one of Irish art’s great “what ifs.”

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[Róis-Máire Donnelly @RoismairedSF]

Today, I paid my respects to those who lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme, a hugely significant event in the shared history of our island.

I am committed to being an inclusive Ard-Mhéara and to respect all identities and traditions in our society.

[Chris Donnelly @chrisadonnelly]

Alan isn’t familiar with the boundary changes. There always was a nationalist quota in Strangford with the right candidate & campaign. Changes have significantly lowered the hurdle to be jumped to secure a Nationalist seat in the constituency,

[NISRA @NISRA]

NISRA has published the UK Armed Forces Veterans Data for Northern Ireland including tables on demography, economic activity, health and many other topics.
View the results https://t.co/Lao59W9FGB
#Census2021 #NISRA