When you mean to write “thing” but you write “ting”
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The Harder They Come was the very first full length feature film developed for a local Jamaican market. It’s actually quite good, if you’re into gritty, early 70’s gangster movies.
Unfortunately, when it came time to show it internationally it began as something of a flop, in part because Jamaican emmigrants didn’t want to be reminded of thatside of home, and everybody else found the dialoguecompletely impenetrable.
Except, where else, but in Cork.
“At the Cork International Film Festival an invited audience of media ‘personalities’ (among them Peter Cushing of Hammer Horror) watched the film in silence. Perry and Sally Henzell feared a critical drubbing but, in fact, the Irish had loved the film. It’s implied protest against life on the breadline and thoughtful portrayal of a rural boy gone bad had struck a chord. The Jamaican screen accents, moreover, were thought to approximate the Cork accent, and at the press conferences afterwards it was asked if ‘Cork natives’ had settled in large numbers in Jamaica. Perry was awarded the ‘Editor’s prize’: that was how much Cork had liked the film.”
Ian Thomson - The Dead Yard: A Story Of Modern Jamaica
I’ve read similar versions of the story elsewhere, that’s just the first book that came to hand. I’m extremely amused that the author (a white Brit) puts ‘Cork natives’ in slightly disbelieving quotes, like that’s notexactlythe first question you’d expect a Corkonian to ask.
There is an island in the Carribean called Montseratt where the accent is heavily Irish influenced due to the numbers of Irish transported there as slaves, prisoners and exiles during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. There was a 1970’s Radharc on RTE about the “Black Irish of Monseratt” in Kinsale (on the island) which had examples of it.
The moment Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister, about to shake the hand of the Swiss President, realises that some dope has hung up the Danish flag instead.
Water-stained violin proven to be the one that played Nearer my God to Thee by Wallace Hartley as the Titanic sank is found. [x]
It is the instrument that he played as the ship went down in the Atlantic, and that he later used as a buoyancy aid once Titanic went down.
The violin was discovered only by chance when the son of an amateur musician found it in his attic. It was given to his mother by her violin teacher and was left gathering dust.
The discovery was almost too good to be true, prompting experts to have the relic forensically examined by some of the most revered scientific bodies in Britain.
Now, after seven years of testing at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds, the water-stained violin has been proven to be the one played by Hartley on the night of the tragedy.
These pictures show how incredibly well-preserved the rose wood violin is despite its age and it being exposed to the sea for 10 days after the sinking.
There are two long cracks on its body that are said to have been opened up by moisture damage.
The photos also show the corroded engraved silver plate screwed onto the base of the fiddle that provided scientists with they key proof of its authenticity.
The historic violin, said to be worth a six figure sum, will go on public display at the Belfast City Hall, where Titanic was built, at the end of March.
Negotiations are also under way to exhibit it in museums around the world including America. It is likely to be auctioned off in the future.
Titanic experts have described it as the most important artefact associated with the infamous liner to have come to light.
A rare reblog, and a piece of history right there.
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