Meanwhile in the streets

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Visiting Saltee Island was a pleasure, but it is the time to return and check out what we have missed while we were away. There are some street scenes and the events that took place in Clonmel and Waterford.

Clonmel Junction festival is the most eventful week in July, filled with live music, street performance, theatre and visual art. Installations of the works A Child for sale by a world renowned artist and Kilsheelan resident Gottfried Helnwein could be seen in various places in the streets of Clonmel.

In my blog post Cry for the Last Child, I wrote about Gottfried and his beautiful castle. His granddaughters Croí and Éala are regular models for his paintings.

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Lords of Strut  – very talented and very positive comedians from Cork gave a brilliant performance in Clonmel.

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‘Over styled and under dressed’, silly but charming  characters Strut brothers Sean and Seamus,  won the hearts of young and old with their hilarious show, acrobatics, satire and dance.

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The streets of Waterford were not always as deserted as you might think after looking at this picture.

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Historical reenactment of 1916 Easter Rising gathered quite a crowd and took us a hundred years back.

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There is a video of the Reenactment I found on Youtube – I even caught a glimpse of myself in it 🙂

 

All sorts of transportation in The Quay, side by side. I love this street, and I think that most of my Waterford pictures were taken there.

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Irish United Nations Veteran meeting was held in Cathedral Square, just a minute walk from The Quay. Thank you for your service!

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Waterford Spraoi festival is one of a kind. Theatre, music, art, dance and much more is happening in the streets of Waterford on the first weekend of August. Here is my Spraoi 2015 post. I will share only a few pictures this time.

Spraoi orchestra string quartet.

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Morbid&Sons, a brand new undertaker business. Way to go, guys!

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Tango for all! Dance until dark!

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The sun is setting down and it looks like we are having a rainy day tomorrow 🙂

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Melting gold of the setting sun flows behind the horizon. Darkness comes instead.

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It is a perfect time to see the famous Spraoi monsters in the streets of Waterford City…

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… and listen to the monster style music 🙂

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Don’t be afraid of Spraoi monsters. They are a little bit crazy, but all they want is to have fun.  The only really scary and ugly thing in this world is hate.

Thank you for stopping by and for your interest in Ireland. In my next blog post, we will return to the Ocean and take a very unusual walk 🙂

inesemjphotography Have a wonderful weekend!

155 comments

  3. WOW. Amazing, the day AND your capturing of it in your special Inese lenses. I must say I am still giggling over Morbif&Sons. The tango dancing looks soooo elegant. What a great advertisement for this festival xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    1. Thank you so much for your kind comment! Just thought I might share some pictures of the events and people – lately it was all birds and scenery 🙂 xxxxxxx

  6. Hi Inese. This is such a fun post! Thanks for bringing us along for all these festivities. I enjoyed every photo and every word. Also thanks for the links to your other posts.
    I have an errand to do before it gets horribly hot today. Heat is one thing, but the humidity… there have been several times when a splatter of mist hits my car’s windshield — but it is not raining. The air is that heavily laden with moisture. Thank God for air conditioning.
    Have a wonder-filled weekend my friend. Mega hugs.

    1. Teagan, I am horrified by your story. I cannot even imagine a hot ‘splatter of mist’. Thank you so much for stopping by! I wrote this post just to squeeze a few human pictures between my bird and nature blogs. Have a good day you too, regardless of the weather. Many hugs!!!

      1. LOL, that’s why I miss the desert even more in the summer heat than I do in the winter cold. You really did a great job with this post, Inese. I was so very stressed out when I visited it earlier today. And it did wonders to help me relax and virtually live the festivities. Don’t underestimate your work. You are a true artist, not just with the camera but with the blog as well. More hugs! 🙂

  8. This all looks amazing! Though I think I’d find the murals quite unsettling when coming across them for the first time – they are so realistic.

    1. Thank you so much, Anabel! These are not murals, just canvases. Gottfried Helnwein is working on big canvases for his installments. Many people find them unsettling 🙂 These series are about child trafficking.

    1. Thank you so much! Yes, the tango ones are very personal. I spent at least one hour altogether watching the dancers – it was fascinating.

      1. Old news in terms of memories outscore the new…photography is the perfect medium to capture memories. Have you ever studied my favourite snapper (I say that, excellent as she is, she was a snapper of some skill) Lee Miller? Adore her work within the field you share.

          1. I have the book re her life her son penned…fascinating, ‘Hitler’s Bath’ although not a shot she took herself, rather one she was in taken the very day after she’s been there at the liberation of Dachau always inspires. A great period for photography back then, Robert ‘what does focus matter’ Capa was another fine photographer I reckon.

            1. Capa is one of my heroes.
              Yes, it was the time of the best discoveries in photography. It is difficult to be better than Capa or Cartier-Bresson.

  16. Such a lovely collection of photos. I enjoyed the way you covered many facets of cultural life and brought them together.

      1. Thank you. I’m surprised to find you up at this unsocial time of the morning but delighted as I now feel I have your company.
        xxx Hugs Galore xxx

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