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Elevate by The Winery Dogs from the live concert Dog Years (Live in Santiago & Beyond 2013-2016)

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Mr David Lee Roth & Band Members,1986

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Oblivion by The Winery Dogs from the album Hot Streak

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William Sheehan - The Consultation (1917)

Depicting the interior of the artist's family home, his blending of two models - both his sister and the actress Caroline O'Connor - in the tense female figure suggests a less specific, more open meaning to the painting. Among the numerous interpretations of this work, however, is that the withdrawn male figure imparts news of the death of O'Connor's two brothers, both of whom were killed in the First World War in 1917. The painting, therefore, may represent the impact of war on the home and on those anxiously awaiting the next letter. Sheehan's use of mirrors and still life serves to enhance the suspension of feeling in this moment, while the chair reflected in the background suggests emptiness or loss. (source)

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William Sheehan - The Consultation (1917)

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Where the Donkey Seems to Have a Good Pull

July 21, 1904

Henry Gassaway Davis ('for Vice President') has his leg pulled by the Democratic donkey (with assistance from Arthur Gorman and William Sheehan). Davis sits on a barrel of money.

Davis had been chosen as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in hopes that he would use his large fortune to help the campaign.

See Also: Arthur Gorman

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/4946

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Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots and Revolts in Ireland - Edited By William Sheehan and Maura Cronin

Dates - 6th September to 11th October

Book Number of 2014 - 50 of 52

Synposis -

Why riot? Against whom? For what? Riotous Assemblies is an account of Irish riots, urban and rural, across the island from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Ireland has seen many acts of violent protest. From the urban riots against new taxes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the streets of Ireland have long been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 450 years of protest, this is the story of an anarchic Ireland, including the tithe riots of the 1830s, riots in Limerick throughout the nineteenth century and the reaction of the forces of the state to twenty-first century protesters

My thoughts -

This book by my standards of knocking a book out in an afternoon the better part of six weeks it took me to get through this book is like an eternity. There were a couple of reasons for that. Firstly it was dense, packed with information about time periods and places that I wasn't familiar with. At points, I had to be reading with one hand ready to google the location of places and events to put the essays into context. The book was not one single narrative but a series of long essays each dealing with a different period of Irish history. 

Whilst I found the book interesting and informative, it did have the feel of a first year history textbook about it rather than something enjoyable for the layman. 

I was also hoping for a little bit more coverage on the second half of the 20th century, however there was just one short essay covering this.

Would I recommend it - Yes, but only if you have a firm grasp of Irish history