johnscottirel

wandering soul, choreographer/Opera singer who loves everyone everywhere #irelandforall he/him.

[Frank L. DeSilva @desilva_frank]

One of the most powerful Movies...You never heard of.

Wonder Why?

Black 47 (2018)

Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.

Kudos to IFC @IndieFilmCom

Mandatory

Director: Lance Daly

Screenplay: (Story by Dillon and Ryan)
P.J. Dillon
Pierce Ryan
Eugene O'Brien
Lance Daly

The Story is that eternal memory, brought on by circumstances far beyond the common experience; visceral, pulse-pounding, and visually captivating.

Special Mention: Cinematography

The Cinematography is spellbinding.

PJ Dillon - @pjdillondp is a cinematographer born in Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

Founding member of the Irish Society of Cinematographers (ISC) since 2010. Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 2020.

Cast: (Many more: https://t.co/vzRxfihRlA)

Hugo Weaving
James Frecheville
Stephen Rea
Freddie Fox

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

in the 1970s, a mysterious brazilian artist released 2 psychedelic-folk albums during brazil’s military dictatorship. they were commercial failures and he completely disappeared without a trace after. his music was rediscovered in 2016 in a $1 bin at a rio de janeiro record store

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Liza Minnelli’s Uncharacteristic Pivot to Self-Disclosure https://t.co/Mu8zqEuLTD

[Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs]

"What is beautiful is invisible to the eye; it can only be felt with the heart."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince, 1943

Polish concert pianist Krystian Zimerman performs II. Adagio, Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5, composed between 1809–1810.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda on the most beautiful word in the Portuguese language

[Fotos de Fatos @FotosDeFatos]

Um repórter pergunta a Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, criador do dicionário AURÉLIO, qual é a palavra mais bonita da língua português?

© Arquivo Nacional

[RTÉ Archives @RTEArchives]

The aftermath of bombings on Talbot St, Parnell Street and South Leinster Street in Dublin.

WATCH: RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 1974

https://t.co/qQfK2dxMtl

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The Irish Network Against Racism says it is very concerned that excessive force may have been used against a Congolese man who died following an alleged shoplifting incident in Dublin last week
https://t.co/8lCmdudAvm

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Vandalised bike outside @lidl_ireland Ballybough last night

[Opera with Opera News @operamagazine]

Buon compleanno, Claudio! Monteverdi was probably born – and certainly baptized – in Cremona #OTD in 1567.

[Irish Examiner @irishexaminer]

Cork City Council to consider tiny statue honouring mosquito linked to Oliver Cromwell’s death https://t.co/mTcVClG3VK

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

The Astounding Discovery That Could Link Eastern and Western Medicine https://t.co/fUkACLf2jf via @NYTimes

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Dublin Rose says racism is from people on 'hate train' via @RTENews https://t.co/NGKteDJTQn

[BBC Newsline @bbcnewsline]

Unmarked graves of thousands of people who died in Belfast during the Irish famine have been officially marked, thanks to a campaign by a young historian. More than 170 years after the first bodies were laid to rest, Belfast City Council has recognised the burial ground.

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Irish electricity prices are highest in EU with households paying €480 more per year @electricireland @sseairtricity

https://t.co/4Qft87fYCs

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

RIP Orhan Pamuk

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

Sim! one of my favourite performances ever - and razor-sharp beautiful Jobim lyrics... I play it every March even though it's their early autumn; our spring

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Happy Birthday David Attenborough

[Reuters @Reuters]

David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 https://t.co/Bj5DpBIY7w https://t.co/Bj5DpBIY7w

[johnscottirel @johnsdublin]

Foreign online activity during fuel protests ‘canary in coal mine’, says FG Minister

https://t.co/6nY2ET0xFw

[♦️𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒍♦️ @_kinem_aliel]

𝐌𝐮́𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐚 𝐧𝐚̃𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐞!📻🎶

Em 1979,o mineiro Beto Guedes,gravou uma de suas melhores músicas com uma letra cheia de sentimentos e esperança.A canção rompeu fronteiras e em pouquíssimo tempo estava em primeiro lugar nas rádios do país inteiro.“Sol de Primavera” foi a música que se tornou um hino de amor e solidariedade.
Composta por Beto Guedes e Ronaldo Bastos, a música é um hino de esperança,notabilizada pela orquestração de Wagner Tiso.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In December, 2018, while visiting St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, David Kenny became hypnotized by an epitaph. Near the south door, he gazed up at a marble plaque bearing the epitaph for Jonathan Swift, the redoubtable novelist, poet, satirist, and former Dean of St. Patrick’s who died in 1745, and who was buried beneath the cathedral floor.

The text of the monument was in Latin and stipulated by Swift himself, in his will. Translations vary, but the most enduring was published in 1933, by William Butler Yeats:

SWIFT has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-besotted traveller; he
Served human liberty.

Kenny had read Swift’s epitaph before, but on that day the lines caught him anew. “I had the strongest sense that there was something going on here that I couldn’t quite understand, and that wasn’t captured by Yeats,” Kenny told Ed Caesar. “The interpretive materials in the cathedral didn’t suggest the possibility of any other reading. The rousing, earnest interpretation taken up by Yeats was clearly the accepted understanding. But, to my ear, it was discordant. . . . Swift had never struck me as boastful. Something felt wrong.”

After seven years of research, Kenny thinks he’s cracked Swift’s true meaning: https://t.co/v8SMEUnhKa