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roadmap Exhibition The Lost Moment On November 30
, 1968, as a young lad, Sean O’Hagan attended a civil rights march in his home town of Armagh. It’s worth bearing in mind that to be eligible to vote in a local election back then you had to be a homeowner, most of whom were middle and upper class Protestants. Couple this with gerrymandering and blatant housing and work discrimination against Catholics, and you had the simmering stew of discontent which gave way to The Troubles. Of course, ’68 proved a watershed year globally, with uprisings and tumult across the world from the Prague Spring to the assassination of Martin Luther King in the US. The Lost Moment revisits this seminal year through the eyes of the photographers who were there to witness and testify a change was on its way. Projections, video installations, contemporary political posters and a wealth of other ephemera from the time also form part of The Lost Moment. Gallery of Photography, September 27 - November 6 Book Sally Rooney You do want to read the hottest Irish writer of the moment while you’re here, right? Well Sally Rooney is said person and she’s just published her second novel Normal People. It’s been long-listed for the Booker literature prize and is top of the bestseller list here and in the UK. And in addition to this the BBC have announced they are going to adapt it for TV with our Oscar nominated director Lenny Abrahamson (The Room) in the directors’ chair. Our reviewer in Totally Dublin said: “Rooney brings her readers incredibly, almost suffocatingly, close to her protagonists, revealing who they are and what they think — their fears, their desires, their misconceptions — without ever explicitly pathologizing them. Normal People is a tender and affecting representation of how two people with their own separate hurts can shape each other for the better.” Faber & Faber, €16.99 Coffee Daniel Daniel is the latest addition to the outpost joints of the infamous 3fe who were one of the first spearheading a coffee culture in the city. In turn, their arrival has added to Clanbrassil Street as one of the most competitive coffee streets in the whole city. In less than 650 metres you have Clanbrassil House, Gaillot et Gray, The Thursday Cafe, Salt & Stove, Fumbally and now Daniel all serving brew among other offerings. 19 Clanbrassil Street Lower, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 4