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| 28 Mar 2008 03:54:59 pm |
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I thought this was an important landscape context for prospective artists to be aware of when making their proposals.
The UFO Society of Ireland is based in Boyle Co. Roscommon, and regularly organises conferences and symposia. The organisation is connected worldwide and has a web presence and a newsletter.
http://www.ufosocietyireland.com/
Their website lists their sightings and predictions as well as promoting their activities and providing details on how to join.
Alleged UFO crash in Boyle in 1996: http://www.ufocasebook.com/boylecocrash.html
The UFO society has held four conferences so far, and the fifth is scheduled for 27th-28th September 2008, in the Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim - only a week before the New Sites, New Fields opening. |
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Category : Hokum?
| Posted By : Sarah |  Comments[51] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 15 Jan 2008 06:54:35 pm |
| Leitrim's Canadian Doppelganger |
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I wasn't sure how to categorise this and I'm surprised I haven't come across it before.
This interests me as I'm curious about processes of town twinning and how localities can become connected globally, and also ways of finding out something of a place by looking at the 'elsewheres' and representations generated around it.
Leitrim is a suburban community and a developing neighborhood, to Ottawa's rural south in Ontario, Canada, named after the Irish County Leitrim.
Bounded by Leitrim Road to the north, and Rideau Road to the south, generally between Bank Street on the east, and Albion Road to the west, the community design plan outlines the development for the area in the coming years. Findlay Creek Village is currently the only area under development within Leitrim. Southbrooke is another community planned within the area. Located nearby are the Leitrim Wetlands, the Rideau Carleton Raceway, a stormwater system and a military intelligence gathering station CFS Leitrim [my emphasis]
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitrim%2C_Ontario
Image source: http://www.img.forces.gc.ca/org/cfiog/leitrim_e.asp [official website]
CFS Leitrim, located just south of Ottawa, is Canada's oldest operational signal intelligence collection station. Established by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals in 1941 as I Special Wireless Station and renamed Ottawa Wireless Station in 1949, CFS Leitrim acquired its current name when the Supplementary Radio System was created in 1966. In 1946, the station's complement was 75 personnel. The current strength is 450 military personnel and 28 civilian employees.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Leitrim
This makes me want to visit.
Then there is some stuff about the CFS site that definitely falls into the hokum/ conspiracy theory category. The source for this image is http://cryptome.org/sigint-hr-dc.htm |
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Category : Hokum?
| Posted By : Sarah | Comments[53] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 12 Nov 2007 02:20:48 pm |
| Unexplained Phenomena in the Landscape... |
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Just to point out before I begin that I had planned on writing a post of this nature anyway, it's not just a purely facetious response to Sam's post below on the Dobar-Chú!
I think the research archive has huge potential, and I'd like to think that it could accommodate research that is outside the factual, and is maybe speculative, anecdotal, subjective, or even possibly spurious. Two things come to mind for me here, first - the 'Big Cat' sightings in the north west (though has mostly actually been in Antrim) and also that Roscommon is apparently the highest area for UFO sightings in the country.
Links to 'Big Cat'/ mysterious animals sightings:
http://www.blather.net/blather/2003/11/update_big_cat_sightings_in_ir.html
http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/Homepage.htm
http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/IrishExoticCats.htm
http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/county_antrim_cat.htm
http://www.leitrimobserver.ie/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=2571&ArticleID=1388772
These strike me as pretty unique ways to be reading the landscape we are looking at, and also can imagine they would be exciting contexts for certain artists to respond to after Christmas.
Also, with the question of the LSC archive being developed, I think it would be useful for us to look at existing archives in the area, maybe including those that are less mainstream as well as the official channels such as local studies, genealogy etc. Form links/ share information/ accommodate existing research in making a new, specialised archive? |
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Category : Hokum?
| Posted By : Sarah | Comments[43] | Trackbacks [0] |
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