Man On The Spot: Living it up

Edit Sporting Life 27 Mar 2016
2.40 - REA Grimes Property Consultants Juvenile Hurdle ... However, he's twice been beaten in Listed company and may find a couple of these too good. SUTTON PLACE had him over 6l behind at Naas and, as that was only the third start of his career, Gordon Elliott's charge looks the one to be on and Barry Geraghty has picked him rather than the UK raider Drumcliff, who makes his debut over timber after two bumpers runs ... Mares Chase ... ....

Horse racing tips: Saturday 27 February

Edit The Guardian 26 Feb 2016
@claimsfive ... 2.00 Gibralfaro 2.35 Mon Successeur 3.05 Winter Escape 3.35 Le Reve (nap) 4.10 Clean Sheet 4.45 Cernunnos 5.20 Drumcliff ... ....

Reve up for Kempton revenge

Edit Sporting Life 26 Feb 2016
CHEPSTOW. 2.05 Ghost River, 2.40 Wild Bill, 3.10 Bold Duke, 3.45 The Boss's Dream, 4.20 Arthur's Oak, 4.55 The Omen, 5.30 Big Meadow. KEMPTON. 2.00 St Saviour, 2.35 Cloonacool, 3.05 Winter Escape, 3.35 LE REVE (NAP), 4.10 Sir Ivan, 4.45 De Kerry Man, 5.20 Drumcliff. LINGFIELD. 1.45 Take Cover, 2.15 Ragner, 2.45 Sizzler, 3.20 Grendisar, 3.55 Illusive, 4.30 Grecian King. NAVAN ... NEWCASTLE ... DOUBLE. Le Reve and Grendisar ... ....

Catching Pigeons: 'Bad is good

Edit Sporting Life 26 Jan 2016
Vaillant Nonantais, another Henderson runner, will have to step up a good deal on his two placed efforts so far when he lines up in the closing bumper, but his work suggests he has made a significant move forward since his comeback effort at Stratford 10 months ago, and he can take advantage of the weight he receives from previous winners Criq Rock and Drumcliff ...    ... ....

The Sligo pub which hosted a daily Yeats reading for a year

Edit The Irish Times 12 Jan 2016
Even over Christmas, the regulars at Hargadons pub in O’Connell Street, Sligo refused to let Yeats down ... “There were professors from US universities and ordinary people too,” stressed Devaney ... The poet’s remains, or so most people then believed, had been returned from France for burial in Drumcliffe. “I remember being shown De Valera in Drumcliffe and also Maud Gonne’s son Seán McBride,” he recalled ...    .  . ....

What's on: The festival guide for 2016

Edit The Irish Times 09 Jan 2016
Out to Lunch. January 8th-31st. Boutique Belfast festival gets 2016 off to a bright start with music from Villagers and William Doyle – aka East India Youth – a production of John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men at the Black Box Theatre, a full programme of stand-up, a Wine Goose Chase and lots more. cqaf.com. Music for Galway Midwinter. January 22nd-24th ... musicforgalway.ie. Temple Bar Tradfest ... templebartrad.com ... ... Music in Drumcliffe ... ....

Minister Donohoe & Tourism Ireland look back on a record year for Irish... (Department of ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Dec 2015
(Source. Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport of Ireland). Wednesday 16 December 2015 ... Great Britain, our largest tourism market, has also seen strong growth of +11% this year ... Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said ... Improved access ... Their programme included a celebration of Irish crafts, music and dance at NUI Galway as well as visits to the Burren, the grave of WB Yeats at Drumcliffe and the wonderful gardens at Mount Stewart....

Horse racing tips: Thursday 10 December

Edit The Guardian 09 Dec 2015
12.40 Follow The Tracks 1.10 Whataknight 1.40 Elkstone 2.10 Rebel Benefit 2.40 Doctor Look Here (nb) 3.10 Barrakilla 3.40 Drumcliff Warwick ... ....

Williams to strike 'killa blow

Edit Sporting Life 09 Dec 2015
CHELMSFORD. 4.05 Coral Island, 4.40 Zauffaly, 5.10 SECOND WAVE (NAP), 5.40 Bromyard, 6.10 Falsify, 6.40 Declan, 7.10 Diamond Sam. NEWCASTLE. 12.20 Cracked Rear View, 12.50 Ballycool, 1.20 Cruachan, 1.50 Got The Nac, 2.20 Clan Legend, 2.50 Wakhan, 3.20 Bambys Boy. PUNCHESTOWN ... TAUNTON. 12.40 Kleitomachos, 1.10 Rock On Oscar, 1.40 Sword Of The Lord, 2.10 Spending Time, 2.40 Itsnowcato, 3.10 Barrakilla, 3.40 Drumcliff. WARWICK ... DOUBLE ... ....

Tom McCarthy, novelist 'James Joyce's Finnegans Wake isn't the end of literature, but rather the beginning'

Edit The Independent 01 Oct 2015
Where are you now and what can you see? ... From this angle, they look completely two-dimensional, like stage flats ... James Joyce ... From Drumcliffe to Dublin George Orwell, James Joyce and short fiction's place in the world of ....

Where is the best moment in history for the musical time traveller?

Edit The Irish Times 16 Sep 2015
It’s 2115, a century from now ... Reality and virtual reality. What’s the difference? ... I’ve often thought about Edith Grove’s jam session style when I’ve been at Ireland’s long-standing mix-and-match chamber music festivals in Bantry and Drumcliffe, and also the smaller new arrivals in Killaloe and Westport, which follow the same model of bringing together individual musicians and groups who may never have played with each other before....

Seamus Heaney: A certain poetry to simple, evocative marker

Edit Belfast Telegraph 14 Aug 2015
IT'S two years since the poet Seamus Heaney died in hospital in Dublin at the age of 73 and since his remains were returned for burial in his home village of Bellaghy in south Co Londonderry ... Donegore has Sir Samuel Ferguson. Sligo has WB Yeats - despite recent dispute over the identity of the remains interred in Drumcliffe. Carrowdore has Louis MacNeice ... Such is the power of the poet and his or her final physical location ... From the web ... ....

Headstone is mounted on Seamus Heaney's grave: There's a certain poetry to this simple, evocative marker

Edit Belfast Telegraph 14 Aug 2015
It's two years since the poet Seamus Heaney died in hospital in Dublin at the age of 73 and since his remains were returned for burial in his home village of Bellaghy in south Co Londonderry ... Donegore has Sir Samuel Ferguson. Sligo has WB Yeats - despite recent dispute over the identity of the remains interred in Drumcliffe. Carrowdore has Louis MacNeice ... Such is the power of the poet and his or her final physical location ... From the web ... ....
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