Sheriff Street Community Mural
You know the inner city, right? Social problems, crime. Yeah. Same old story. Trouble. But the trouble is that the trouble isn’t the story. Not really. It’s the headline. The eye-catcher. The tabloid seller. The attention-grabbing soundbyte, the load of auld s… Auld nonsense. Yeah, that’s the phrase. Right, so what’s-the-story, bud? The story is […]
Peter Sheridan on his new play Philo
I will never forget the first time I met Philo. It was February 1982 in the offices of the North Centre City Community Action Project (NCCAP) in Summerhill. A vibrant but small community organisation, we had just been awarded a grant from the Department of Labour to employ twelve people on a pilot drama scheme. […]
Intercultural Ambassador Programme launched
On May 28th Dublin City Council and the North East Inner City Initiative launched their ‘Intercultural Ambassador Programme’ in Mountjoy Square Park. 16 successful voluntary Ambassadors were chosen to encourage a network of intercultural dialogue among the diverse communities within the North East Inner City, with a view to addressing the barriers to integration within […]
The Uncertain Life of a Docker
“‘Oh Jaysus, a fella’s after falling in the river’. And a voice came from the other side, now normally they’d say throw him a buoy, but some fella shouted, ‘Is it a button man?’, and someone shouts back, ‘Throw him a bar!’” That was a quip from one of the Dublin Dockers who is part […]