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Back with a bang
With festivals on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic, people have been longing slice of pie from the iconic Big Blue Bus Pizzeria.
Luckily, fans don t have to wait any longer, as the Big Blue Bus has found a new home.
Following the Bernard Shaw s move from Richmond Street to Glasnevin, the guys set up shop at The Avon in Co. Wicklow.
Now, after four weeks of renovation, another bus is open at Baste Food Market in Portobello, serving the pizza we know and love with vegan and low-gluten options available.
A look back at old Royals programs
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I’ve been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. Over the years I’ve kept just about every program of every game I’ve ever attended. For a long time, I wondered why, but now, writing for Royals Review and with the advent of Baseballrefernce.com, it’s been a fun walk down memory lane to revisit some of those old games.
The first program in my collection is from the 1966 Kansas City Athletics. It wasn’t even a game I attended. Some of my dad’s friends went to the game and brought back the Athletics 1966 yearbook for me. The front cover is long gone but featured prominently on page two is Charlie O. Finley and his family. No matter what the occasion, Charlie wanted everyone to know that he was the man.
Sixty years ago, Sir Barry Jackson, the founder of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, shuffled of his mortal coil, but not before he had created another cultural institution. Just a few miles southwest of the sprawling conurbation of Birmingham, the landscape suddenly rolls out into a green and unexpected carpet. It then unfurls its furrowed way to Worcestershire, finally flopping itself at the feet of the rising hills of Malvern, a small spa town with a grand opinion of itself as a cultural oasis, thanks to Sir Barry. However, this pride is well earned, having annually hosted the cream of new stage plays and, in particular, those of Bernard Shaw.
21 min read What did The Irish Times first say about some works of literature that turned into classics? We trawled the archive to find out
The Irish Times was founded in March 1859 and, more than 160 years later, is recognised for the quality and the quantity of the pages it devotes to Irish and international literature. Its deep engagement is reflected in the authors who have written columns for it over the years, among them Brian Friel, Kate OâBrien, John Montague, Maeve Binchy, Derek Mahon, Nuala OâFaolain, Stewart Parker and, most famously, Flann OâBrien.
Things got off to a rather sluggish start, however, as Terence Brown observed in his history of the newspaper: âUntil the 1880s and 1890s there was little sense that Ireland possessed a literature of its own. This began to change, however, as what became known as the Irish Literary Revival began to make its impact on cultural life.â