Hugh Lane celebrates 100 years
The Hugh Lane Centenary Exhibition promises to be one of the gallery’s headline exhibitions in 2008. It starts on 26 June and runs until 14 September. It sees the gallery display all 39 paintings in the original Hugh Lane bequest for the first time since 1913.

Gallery opening hours are Tuesday to Thursday, 10am to 6pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sundays 11am to 5pm. Entrance to the permanent collection is free and there are occasional charges for temporary exhibitions.

The Bath Avenue and District Residents’ Association would like to thank all the local shops and businesses who supported the Senior Citizens’ Christmas Party, pictured above. Special thanks also to LRSDC for their sponsorship of the party.

Runners wanted for Katmandhu project

Bob and Frances Corazza are looking for Minimarathron runners for the Nepal cerebral palsy project in Kathmandu.
Bob and Frances started the project in 1997, after working there for over two years. Funds were raised for the acre of land. The plan was that instead of renting inaccessible rooms around Kathmandu they would have their own clinic and school.

All the children and students are on the ground floor, leaving administration offices upstairs. It is a lovely, large building with plenty of open spaces and sun light along with two physiotherapy rooms, occupational therapy room, counselling and speech therapy rooms.

The first school phase for 32 children is a single-storey structure, has accessible toilets, four classes and an activity/ dining room.Additional classes and various staff rooms follow in 2008.

Bob and Frances Corazza– Nepal Cerebral Palsy School Charity No CHY 16410.

ARESelf Help Group for Cerebral Palsy, Dhapakhel, Kathmandu, Nepal, 22 Dromard Terrace, Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Tel: 00353-1 6687538.

Daffodil day raises €3,772

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people of Ringsend and Irishtown for their support on Daffodil Day Friday 7th March 2008. Thanks also to all the women who sold daffodils in the community and the women who made cakes, organised the raffle and coffee morning in Cambridge Court.

I am delighted to announce that together we raised €3,772 to help the Irish Cancer Society provide quality care and emotional support to cancer patients and their families through their free nationwide nursing and cancer information services.
Aileen Foran.

The photograph above was taken during a previous Daffodil Day collection.

Crafty work for children in the National Print Museum

There are places still available in the following children’s craft workshops.

Batik
Printing is not the only way to make a beautiful picture. Participants in this workshop will design and create pictures on a piece of material, using wax. They will then soak the material in brightly-coloured inks to make special batik images.
Sunday 11th May, 2.30 to 4pm €20 per Child

Handmade Papermaking
In this workshop, participants will make paper by hand from recycled materials and natural fibres (bamboo and cotton linters) without using artificial chemical additives or animal products. Participants will use techniques such as texturing and dying and they will take home the paper pictures and collages they create.
Sunday 29th June 2.30 to 4pm €20 per Child

Advanced booking and payment is required. Contact Aoife McGonigle, Education Officer, National Print Museum, Garrison Chapel, Beggar’s Bush Barracks, Haddington Rd, Dublin 4. Tel: 01 6603770.
Email: printmuseumedu@iol.ie

Community Garda for Sandymount

Following a series of robberies on business premises in Sandymount, Cllr. Paddy McCartan requested more Garda presence in the village. A Community Garda now patrols the area and this has led to a much improved feeling of security for local businesses in Sandymount. Paddy is pictured here with a new Garda to the area, Garda Anthony Moran.

An Archive of Dublin 4 and Docklands photographs at fotopic.net

Des O’Murchu always has a camera with him when he is travelling around the Docklands area and his photographs are now on www.fotopic.net. His early 80s period is highlighted with the DART Construction as well as important photographs of Ringsend at the time the East-Link Bridge was announced. Gasworks pictures were mainly taken from the DART.

On the Historic Documents page are original documents regarding Lansdowne Rugby Clubhouse construction in 1972 where the total budget for the Clubhouse Development was around £75,000!

Any questions or requests for publication should be done through fotopic.net

A Moment In Time

These three young sisters are dressed to the nines in their matching outfits. We know they are Patsy, Marie and Dolores O’Connor. The photo was taken many years ago but these three girls are forever captured in their youth.

St Patrick’s Girls’ School hold the line

Above: St Patrick’s Girls’ School Ringsend Gaelic Football Team is pictured with Brendan Malone of the Board of Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

Many happy returns at Poolbeg Yacht Club

Best wishes to Dave Crowe who is pictured above celebrating his 90th birthday at Poolbeg Yacht Club. With Dave on the sofa are his wife Kitty and daughter Rosaleen. His other children are from rear left: Dave, Ann, Liz, Catherine and Shay.