December 17, 2005
Ingenious Ireland
I've quoted liberally from Mary Mulvihill's marvellous book "Ingenious Ireland" (and embarked on more than a few journeys using the book as a guide), so this is as good a time as any to mention that there is now a website based on the book, also called Ingenious Ireland. Regular viewers might recognise this photograph on the site. The same photo also appeared as a background image on the RTE weather forecasts during the summer - RTE and Met Eireann run a photo competition every season, and all the entries are shown on successive days on the 6pm and 9pm news bulletins. RTE send out an email giving the dates when the photo would appear. I promptly forgot about it, though I did make the mistake of telling my mother who made sure no-one else forgot about it. I only realised I'd missed it when I got an SMS from my sister saying that she'd seen "my purple socks" on the telly (she's not great with the texting, it has to be said). I only discovered that the photos are shown over and over again when I was sitting in the American Bar on Inish Mór drinking pints on a balmy Saturday evening in September, when I saw the picture flash up on the TV.
Of course, I should have wrote this post two weeks ago, in time to remind you that the close-off date for Winter 2005 entries is fast approaching. Instead, I'll tell you that you've just missed it (it was Sunday night) - you only get to enter one picture, and I only found out about it at 9pm on Sunday. So it's not my fault that you missed it. Still, plenty of time to enter a picture for the Spring 2006 competition...
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Posted by Monasette at December 17, 2005 05:01 PM