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Brendan Nolan: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013. The woman is kissing Charles Aznavour on the wrong street in. She is much younger than he and he seems to be accepting her admiration with benign patience. It is early morning and I wait politely for her to conclude. She has asked me for directions to a conference venue. She and a male companion, not Chuck the singer, are on a street parallel to where they should be and have declared themselves to be lost, to me. By now, Charles is peeling the woman away from his presence. She smil...
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Brendan Nolan: July 2012
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012. A cast of thousands. Cineplexes are no fun at all. The inventor of multiple screen cinemas has missed the point. People do not go to the cinema to see a moving film with sound and colour and to eat overpriced popcorn. They go to be with other humans in the dark and to listen to a story and see actors play the story out before them. Once, our local cinema ran continuous programmes with no lights up in between for shuffling bodies to stumble out of or move in to the rows of seats.
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Brendan Nolan storytelling on screen
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Speak to me on my. Telling stories on radio go. Stories of Dublin go. Matt Talbot and Hatcha in Stories of Dublin go. How Wicklow Folk Tales came about. Telling Wicklow Folk Tales go. Spirit in the bottle. Bubbles the cat go. Licence for a dead dog. Haunting of a ballplayer. Talepipe Humours of Dublin go. Talepipe Days and nights of fun and frolics go. Telling stories on radio. This programme began as a DCU students' project in the hot summer of 2013. Each segment is self contained and is absorbing.
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blog | Little Book of Dublin | Stories of Dublin city and its people
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Little Book of Dublin. Stories of Dublin city and its people. Supplies of a reprinted Dublin Folk Tales are with the distributors. Dublin Folk Tales was the first published of the Irish county folk tales series from The History Press Ireland. It consistently goes in and out of stock in retailers. This time, it went out of print. It’s back now and will sell alongside my Little Book of Dublin. When you see it, turn it face out, for the jacket alone sells this book. This entry was posted in news. Thanks to ...
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Brendan Nolan: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012. A child dives out of its mother's arms and heads headfirst for the concrete path at her feet. She catches her by the ankles just as she is about to re-arrange her brains on a busy city street. The child goes over the mother's shoulder in this manoeuvre. The tall slim mother catches the falling ankle, sight unseen. I say: it was close; she says yes and laughs; someday I will miss. Are you circus people, I ask; no she says it's just something she likes to do. Wednesday, June 20, 2012.
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Brendan Nolan: Doing the marathon
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Friday, November 21, 2014. Some 14,600 people set off in Dublin City Marathon. Just 12,267 cross the finish line hours and hours later. For the first time, I am one of them. I walk though many run. In the weeks that follow, emails pour in offering me photographs of myself in the race. Nobody looks good in a marathon, except the elite running at the front as if everyone is chasing them, as they are. People head off in great spirits. The route is geared towards runners, I come to realise as I saunter along.
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Brendan Nolan: February 2014
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Sunday, February 16, 2014. Investing in an Ark. A man wants me to invest in an ark with him. More to the point, he wants to build an ark and I will pay for it to be built: which means financing his wages and materials and anything else that comes up; like some housekeeping money for his wife. Why I ask, not unreasonably I feel. We, meaning he, will do. It and I will pay him to gather a pair of every animal there is to be found locally and bring them into the ark. New Animaland across the sea, without us.
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Brendan Nolan storyteller
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A treasure trove of stories for you. Speak to me on my. As a storyteller to anyone, anywhere, at any time. That have travelled around the world in the company of readers. For more specifics on Dublin storytelling, see Dublinfolktales.com. For storytelling articles and stories see Irishfolktales.com. Thanks for calling in. Brendan is garda-vetted for contact with children, young adults, and vulnerable adults. And, Dargle Lovers, from my CD. Are added to the video. Order your signed copy.
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Brendan Nolan: November 2014
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Friday, November 21, 2014. Some 14,600 people set off in Dublin City Marathon. Just 12,267 cross the finish line hours and hours later. For the first time, I am one of them. I walk though many run. In the weeks that follow, emails pour in offering me photographs of myself in the race. Nobody looks good in a marathon, except the elite running at the front as if everyone is chasing them, as they are. People head off in great spirits. The route is geared towards runners, I come to realise as I saunter along.
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Brendan Nolan: August 2012
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Winning one for the jumper. A man asks me if I want to buy a frog. I say no thank you, for I was always taught to be polite; no matter how strange the conversation. He says it can jump farther than most frogs. If there was an Olympics for frogs this one would win first prize, he says with conviction. A gold medal, I correct him as I wonder why there are no Olympic events for animals without humans on their backs? What use is gold to a frog? What did he say? I cannot shake the fe...
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