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Ein Glas Guinness und sonst nur wertlose Wertpapiere: Der irische Maler Frank O'Dea lieb sich fur "The Anglo Irish Shareholder" von der Bankenkrise inspirieren. (A glass of Guinness and otherwise only worthless securities: The Irish painter Frank O'Dea loves to be inspired by the banking crisis for "The Anglo Irish Shareholder").    Business magazines published in Germany. The magazine is published on a monthly basis in Hamburg.  

2011: FLAMIN' MOLLY! JOYCE MEETS BART, ELVIS AND LENNON. June 18th 2011 It's the time of year when we celebrate the life and works of our greatest author. But the monochrome world of James Joyce has been turned technicolour in a new series of works celebrating this year's Bloomsday. In a new exhibition, artist Roy Wallace has the world's most eminent writer as a Zelig-like figure pictured with Laurel and Hardy in 1920s Hollywood, Elvis Presley and John Lennon in the late Sixties, and even Bart Simpson. "I've been a big fan of James Joyce and his writings over the...

2012: THE DUBLINERS 1962-2012. News Four. April/May 2012. The best band to ever come out of Ireland are celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year. Formed in 1962, they made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin. To mark the 50th Anniversary of The Dubliners, artist Niall O'Loughlin, Pervaneh Matthews and Ray Sherlock showcased their paintings of the famous musicians and other Dubliners at Balla Bán Art Gallery in March. All three artists are big fans of the Dubliners. Dublin artist Pervaneh has one of her limited edition prints hanging in O'Donoghues Pub on Merrion Row, the...

2013: BARRYMORE STRIKES IT LUCKY IN CITY GALLERY. 6th April, 2013 Comedian Michael Barrymore provided a boost for one Dublin gallery last weekend where he snapped up painting after painting. In the capital to appear on Brendan O'Connor's Saturday Night Show, the presenter spent the afternoon shelling out hundreds of euro on artworks in the Balla Ban Art Gallery in the Westbury Mall. "I didn't even recognise it was Michael Barrymore at first. He turned up outside looking in the window and next thing he was through the door. It's a tiny little space so he was soon filling it up...

2010: THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO (AND BRIAN). The Diary, Irish Independent, October 2nd. 2010. The anniversary of what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday takes place on October 9. Commemorations here will include a Lennon-themed exhibition at the Balla Bán Art Gallery in the Westbury Mall, Dublin. Included will be works by Belfast artist Roy Wallace, including this one -- note the ghost of late Beatles manager Brian Epstein, in black and white, keeping tabs on his former client (and Yoko). "Other bands have boasted about doing it but The Beatles were the first band to truly...