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BOSCA BRUSCAIR Pocket-sized… Dreamt up during loc
kdown, Pocket Forests is a new social enterprise initiative in which Catherine Cleary (former Irish Times restaurant critic) and Ashe Conrad-Jones (Gorilla Design) are teaming up to plant small native forests in private gardens and urban areas. pocketforests.ie Our love for the telebox has been amplified during lockdown, whether that’s gorging on Tiger King and The Last Dance or perving on Normal People. And that’s just to top up or ‘clued in and cool’ fronting on social media. Illustrator Keith Kavanagh aka Johnny Cigarette has rounded up his pals to create Bosca Bruscair: An Anthology Zine which pays homage to daytime TV. Featuring the work of Johnny, Conor Nolan, Ross Carvill and others, it is all yours for a mere fiver plus postage. Buy now and you’ll get some stickers and a drawing of your favourite Jeremy Kyle contestant too! Deal. johnnycigarettex@gmail.com instagram.com/johnnycigarettex THIS MODERNIST LOVE Matthew Retallick is a Manchester-based curator and writer whose family hails from Terenure. He’s also the instigator of modernist.ie which documents design modernism in Ireland from 1916-1996. “I started the project after a conversation in a pub. Nobody would believe me that Ireland had a significant modernist design legacy, so I set up the account to prove that wrong. I receive messages all the time from people who tell me that the project has allowed them to think differently about design in Ireland, and that’s the goal – for Irish people to claim their modern design, and for it to inspire new work and new conversations.” IG: @modernist.ie Kitted out… with O’Neill’s GAA shorts suddenly made übersexy by a certain Connell Waldron, we eagerly await the unveiling of our Olympic kit. Perhaps, the powers that be will consider a leap of cool along the lines of Sierra Leone’s one which is designed by London menswear label Labrum. @ labrumlondon 7