Being young and Irish and other bits

I put here the link to my intended submission to President Higgins Being Young and Irish initiative of his early days in office.


http://flootcakes.blogspot.ie/


It's amusing I think. I say about a pub table with comrades one night and we brainstormed stupid ideas and fun things that could possibly be written about a better Dublin/ Ireland for young people. We were young then, so very young, O Lord have mercy. 


I have the manuscript lists and transcripts from that night and its productivity that came form the waffling that only pub table chats can provide. It's... somewhere. Shhh...


One of the ideas was to create a realistic commentary for a realistic waling tour of the streets of Dublin, with grim and disappointing features to the fore. It should highlight the worries of Dubliners and the things that get them going. However it needs to be subtle and not just oh look at the junkies. I had a feeling about it when we talked about it first and I thought I wouldn't like anyone else's attempts to write it because it'd be shit. Sorry about yiz.


Anyway, good stuff. The BRS-HSS is open for business. It's only a little odd that this is a subsidiary of the Boyle Research Society, a non-entity as of yet. That's obviously not an issue, as the anachronisms of history are a fundamental point of reference to the founding of the BRS in the first place. Imagine the fun someone will have in writing the history of history at the BRS. It will require much research--a society of its own perhaps.

Scrambled ostrich eggs an' al' 'thon.

Okay, so here are some things that have been in my head of late.

1) Creating a version of the Diet Coke ad – the ‘I don’t want you to be no slave’ one – where the women are replaced by nuns and the guy is replaced by Dev. The end of the song should be changed from ‘I just wanna make love to you’ to ‘I just wanna vote for you’, and             rather than stripping off, Dev should just take his hat and coat off. I imagine some harvest scene, or turf-cutting being the background. Dev should wipe the perspiration from his brow with a ballot paper.

2) Something to do with Chris de Burgh leading the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. I’m thinking lots of lady in red. Perhaps the lady in red could be Aoife MacMurrough.

3ish) This got me thinking – my mind wonders – about presenting WWI as the Eurovision Song Contest. People always bitch about ‘political’ voting in the show, which could be a fun way of presenting the alliance system in 1914. Then everything went to shit. 

Archie Duke style. 

These are just some random ideas that I’ve been mulling over. They need work. Roll on the establishment!