Claudia Dalby

Mar 13, 2024 | thegloss.ie | Claudia Dalby

‘Romanticising your life’ may be a familiar trend. During the pandemic we saw seemingly infinite videos of flower-buying, breakfast-preparing and journaling TikTokers inviting you to slow down, find beauty in routine and mundanity, and imagine you already live your dream life. Feeds may have swallowed the trend, but writer Beth McColl insists romanticising became a life-changing practice for her.

Nov 28, 2023 | dublininquirer.com | Claudia Dalby

Many stallholders at the weekly Honest2Goodness market in Glasnevin rely on income from there, says Peter Whelan, who sells pork cuts at the market for his company The Whole Hoggs. Which is why they were shocked when, in mid-October, they were handed notices of termination by the market’s operator, he said, telling them they would no longer be able to sell at the warehouse on Slaney Close in the Dublin Industrial Estate. And, why they are fighting those notices, said Whelan.

Nov 7, 2023 | dublininquirer.com | Claudia Dalby

After 6pm on Wednesday evening, a crowd builds in the upstairs room of Rathmines library. Friends greet each other, children run and point to paintings. A photographer, his back against the wall, snaps with his camera, and three of the showing artists pace around, receiving flower bouquets and congratulations. It’s the opening night of “Saimdang: Her Garden, Rediscovered”, a collection of artworks by four artists based on the works of Shin Saimdang, a sixteenth-century artist and calligrapher.

Aug 30, 2023 | irishtimes.com | Claudia Dalby

Sun! I prepare a water bottle with ice. Sunglasses, hat. A fiction and a non-fiction, three notebooks and a pen. A blanket to bake on until the sun meets the big tree at 5.30pm. Rain all summer, you have to be ready at any moment. Sharply-cut grass poking my back, book aloft to block the sunshine. Trees in the back garden swoop circular above me, the Dublin-Galway train rumbles above as it always has. Some pages in, from the direction of my feet, I hear a whirring, hard plastic jamming and releasing.

Jul 18, 2023 | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon |Lois Kapila |Sam Tranum |Claudia Dalby

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