Ireland on film. Or not.
This fantastic Specsavers ad was actually filmed in the Faroe Islands. The seanfhear in the geansaí, the sheepdog and Mo Ghile Mear soundtrack would all lead the viewer to think that it is Ireland, but it’s just a deception.
Today’s Top Ten (may actually be less; depends on blog traffic) Things That Other People Like To Look At:
Previous Conquests:
Stuff I've harped on about:
1984 2010 2012 Abortion Abstinence Accent Accents Adoption Ads Africa AIDS Alchohol Alcohol Alternative Miss Ireland America AMI Animals Animation Anne Doyle An Post Apple April Fool Architecture Armageddon Art Attitude Avenue Q Awards Badges Bankers Banks Barcelona Bassoon quartets Beautiful Beekeeping Bees Belarus Belfast Belgium Berlin Bigotry Bike Birthday Birthday Cards Birthday Partys Birthdays Bizet Blasphemy Blessed Virgin Blindness Blog BMX Boathouse Boney M Books Boots Boys Britain Budweiser Bumper Stickers Burqa BVM Carols Cars Cartoon Cartoons Catholicism Catholics Child Abuse Childcare Childhood China Choirs Christchurch Christy Moore Church Citroen City Council Civil Partnership Civil Rights Classical Music Climage Change Clinton Clothing College College Life Colour Coloured Powder Comedy Comments Competitions Concerts Conference Conspiracy Theories Cooking. Cork Coxswain Crash Crazy Crocodile Cumann Gaelach Daft Punk Dating David Mitchell David Mitchell's Soapbox David Norris Debating Design Dev Diagram Dingle Marathon Disability Dogs Donations Drag Drags Drimnagh Drink Drugs DUBC Dublin Head Dulux Earth Hour Earthquake Egypt Elderly People Empire English English Literature Environment Erne Head Etiquette Europe Eurovision Exams Exhuastion Experiments Faffing Around Family Farming Fashion Fashion Shoot Favourite Songs Felicity Cloake Feminism Fertility Fianna Fail Film Fine Gael Fitness Flashmob Flirting Flowers Food France French Fry and Laurie Fun Fundraising Gaeilge Gannon Cup Gay Christmas Gay Cure App Gay Icons General Election Gentry Geography George Orwell Gibraltar Gingers Glee God Golden Balls Google Google Maps Gormanston Graffiti Gravity Great Britain Grope Guinness Headshops Health Heaven Hell Henley Hilarious HIV Holocaust Homophobia Honey Humour Humourous Editing Hungary Iarnrod Eireann Iarnród Éireann Ice Cream Iceland Ideal Job Ideology IMF Indian Internet Internet Dating iPad iPhone Irish Irish Rail Irish Times Islam Isreal IV Jamaica Jane Lynch Japan Jo John Cleese Joke Jokes Joy Kids Kieran Behan London 2012 Labour Lady Diana Lady Gaga Language Law Legend Lesbians Level Crossings Lifts Lighthouse Cinema LikeALittle Like A Little Lisbon Living at home Logo London 2012 Love Lyrics Magners Make-Up Manure Marathon Marriage Marriage Equality Matilda Mayan Mayo Me Media Medicine Mel Brooks Memories Men's 10k Michael D. Higgins Midsummer's Day Minchin Bursary Minimum Wage Minutes Mock the Week Money Monti Monty Python Mordor Mountains Movies Mrs Brown Mt Etna Murals Music Musicals NAMA Names Nazis NCAD Neptune Head Nerds New Glasses Newgrange News New Zealand Niamh Nigella Northern Ireland Northsoide Nuclear War Nutjobs Nutters Obama Obituary OK GO Olympia Olympics Opticians Orchestra Paganism Pancakes Panti Pantibar Parody Patrick Paypal Peter Kay Photography Place names Play-Doh Politics Polond Porn Poverty Prayer Presents Presidential Election 2011 Prince Harry Prince Philip Procrastination Prostitutes Prostitution Protest Proverbs Provost Puns QI Racing Radar Radio Rain Rap Recession Relics Religion Ridiculous Wastes of Public Funds Rivalry Roald Dahl Robert Webb Rome Ronnie Barker Rowing Royal Mail Royalty RTE Running Runway Rupert Murdock Russia russian proverb Schadenfreude Science Science Fair Secondhand Sex Shakespeare Sharks Shopping Sicily Signs Simpsons quotes Single Life Singsongs Siri Smithfield Social Issues So cool Songs Soundtracks Space Space Shuttle Spain Specsavers Spoof St. Patrick's Day Stand Up Star spotting Statues Stephen Fry Stings St Lawrence O'Toole Storms Student Politics Stupidity Suicide Summer Suspicious Fires Swearing Switzerland Talking Dirty Tax TCD Technology TED Television Texting Thailand The Abbey Theatre The Commitments The Dail The Farm The Government Inspector The Hist The Koran The Muppets The One Ronnie Theory Tim Minchin Toilets Toll Booth Torys Toyota Traditions Trains Travel Treachery Trial VIIIs Trinity Trinity Regatta Tsunami TV Two Ronnies UCD UK Uncategorized Unemployment Urinals USI Vegetables Vegetarianism Video Videos Vikings Violence Visual Aids Voicemail Voting Walking War Water Weight Whitney Houston Will St Ledger Woody Allen Word Play Words World AIDS Day World Events X-Rays Yes Prime Minster Yoga
The Reading List
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundeva
American Colonies - Alan Taylor
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Marx A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer
The Playboy of the Western World - J.M. Synge
John Bull's Other Island - G.B. Shaw
Kathleen Ní Houlihan - Y.B. Yeats & Lady Gregory
The Plough and the Stars - Sean O'Casey
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors - Roddy Doyle
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibín
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
WIde Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Historical Treasures:
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