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Irish Film Board - Information, Guidelines, File Files, Incentive and contact details.
Culture Ireland Arts Resource - Resource site with information about Irish art, photography, design and fashion.
No Photography Arts and Culture Magazine - Online magazine with news and event listings for music, theatre, dance and visual arts.
Irish Arts Review - Includes features on painting, sculpture, architecture, crafts, heritage, antiques, reviews of exhibitions and books, and a quarterly diary of arts events.
Kalimna - Comprehensive resource for Irish visual arts, providing news, reviews, extensive resource listings and links and showing contemporary Irish artists' works.
FilmNet - Designed to assist and promote tax incentives, grants and awards are available to film and television producers working in Ireland.
Ireland's Portal - Irish directory including horoscopes, reviews, news and events.
Aosdána - An Irish affiliation of artists engaged in literature, music and visual arts.
The Sculptors Society - A not-for-profit artists' organisation which represents over 300 sculptors, manages open competitions for major art commissions, and organises sculpture symposia, conferences and exhibitions.
CLUAS - Alternative music and cinema reviews. Music files by unsigned bands. Newsletter, discussion board, monthly concerts and webcasts. Based in Ireland.
Irish Music International - Specialists in Irish Music on cd, cassettes and video. Unrivalled in-depth knowledge based on 40 years business experience.
Crafts Council of Ireland - The national design and economic development agency for the craft industry in Ireland.
Association of Irish Floral Artists - AOIFA is the official organisation of the floral art movement in Ireland.
Irish Bog Wood Sculpture - Irish bog wood sculpture by Ronnie Graham. Information about the artist and examples of his work.
EirCrafts. - Index of Irish crafts.
Ballyhoo Examiner - Surreal and sometimes satirical "newspaper" set in an imaginary Irish regional centre, with a variety of sections, a newsletter and a range of similar "affiliate sites".
Crazy Dog Audio Theatre - This innovative theatrical source gives background and contact details, reviews, news and links, and notes, sounds and a photos for past productions.
Stunned - An online showcase with artists working in traditional and new media including award winning "Net art" projects, with essays, reviews and listings.
Arts Holidays Ireland - Connects the artistically inclined to artists for professional tuition while on vacation in Ireland
Christine Hughes Ceramics - Designer and producer of ceramic vessels, lighting and giftware details approach and presentation, with contact information.
South Tipperary Arts Centre - Includes information on upcoming gallery, literature, outreach and music programmes.
http://www.fraynework.com/face/ - A co-operative musicians, singers and poets founded in 2001 to promote and defend the rights of artists whose work is rooted within the tradition. Information about membership, their activities and contact details.
Attridge Academy of Irish Dancing - History, typical programme, notes on specific dances and on costume and contact details.
Brown Bag Films - News, jobs, photos, profile and range of services.
Voluntary Arts Ireland - Promotes participation in arts and crafts in the voluntary sector. Includes information on funding, workshops, events and current jobs.
Irish Art Space - Promoter of Irish art into the USA market provides profile, sample images and contact information.
Ireland's Sile na Gigh - Contains photos, descriptions and location details of all the known Irish sheelas, with book list, trivia, links and author profile.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Arts and Entertainment One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Arts and Entertainment "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Arts and Entertainment "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Arts and Entertainment A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Arts and Entertainment "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Arts and Entertainment I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Arts and Entertainment What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Arts and Entertainment "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Arts and Entertainment Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment
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