I know that some of you was curious why did I stopped updating my blog. The reason is quite simple. I was very ill (bronihical tubes infection) and I was also have been very busy with my new job. I am ok no, so my blog is going to update my blog as often as I can.
It seems that Poland is going to be much more linked with Ireland, helping the Irish culture, and the Irish film makers to make the film about James Connolly (staring Peter Mullan) . According to Onet.eu, Gdansk is going to pretend late 19th and early 20th century Dublin, because the city itself is too modern nowadays, and Gdansk is the one of the few port cities with the original late 19th and early 20th century warehouses made of red brick, very similar to the ones that used to dominate the landscape of the banks of the Liffey river. The film is going to be the most expensive in the history of Irish film industry, and it is going to be partly financed by Irish government and SIPTU (which was founded by James Connolly), as a part of 100 anniversary of Easter Rising.
I like very much the idea of making part of the film in Gdansk. Maybe one day, Irish film makers will visit my home city - Lodz, which is also very old and in some parts reminds Dublin.
I hope you’re back to full health, Mac.
It is wonderfully appropriate they are making a film about an Irish labour leader in Gdańsk given the role that the city - Lech Wałęsa, Solidarność etc. - played in Poland’s trade union history.
First time here and heard about the bad news. Sorry to hear that. What is bronihical tubes infection exactly? Sorry I’m illiterate when it comes to medical terminology. I guess the less I know the better.
This reminds me of a Guinness advert - perhaps from last year? It features an “Irish” cobbled street. As far as I know, the ad was actually shot in Prague.
Wesołych Świąt, Mac!
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia