Offaly publican s online sessions attract global audience
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THOUSANDS of people all over the world are viewing a live stream of musical and vocal performances set up by the Brewery Tap pub in Tullamore.
In an effort to keep spirits up during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Monday Night Tap Session has brought together singers, poets, musicians and much more, all from their own homes.
Those who join the session on Zoom were especially taken by a poem written and recited by Frances Browner, Greystones resident and relation of Tap proprietor Paul Bell.
Frances mother was Sadie Bell from Cloghan and the writer spent all her childhood summers in Offaly.
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A pair of bright blue wool slippers with a wolf s head stitched on the front that once belonged to Irish revolutionary Michael Collins are tucked away in a storage museum at a Dublin museum.Â
The 100-year-old slippers, which are as vividly blue as if they were crafted this year, are currently stored in a storage room at the National Museum at Collins Barracks in Dublin City.Â
The museum regularly houses thousands of items in its storerooms as it does not have space to display everything it owns and curators at the museum maintain Collins unique slippers by wrapping them in acid-free tissue paper and storing them in cardboard boxes. The slippers were recently observed by Irish historian Gillian O Brien.Â
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By Ciaran McCauley
image captionThe slippers were donated to Ireland s National Museum in 1958
What kind of revolutionary leader would kick back in a pair of slippers like these?
They are not your ordinary pair of house shoes - a vibrant blue, lined with lush wool.
And, the detail that is the most intriguing - the staring green eyes of a wolf, its tongue slightly protruding like an emoji designed by the Brothers Grimm.
They look almost out-of-the-box brand new. And yet they re about 100 years old.
We know this because these slippers belonged to Michael Collins, the Irish republican who led the military campaign for Ireland s independence a century ago.
BBC News
By Ciaran McCauley
image captionThe slippers were donated to Ireland s National Museum in 1958
What kind of revolutionary leader would kick back in a pair of slippers like these?
They are not your ordinary pair of house shoes - a vibrant blue, lined with lush wool.
And, the detail that is the most intriguing - the staring green eyes of a wolf, its tongue slightly protruding like an emoji designed by the Brothers Grimm.
They look almost out-of-the-box brand new. And yet they re about 100 years old.
We know this because these slippers belonged to Michael Collins, the Irish republican who led the military campaign for Ireland s independence a century ago.