{"id":662,"date":"2013-11-13T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:17:04","slug":"living-for-the-city-the-new-dubliners-067-nov-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/living-for-the-city-the-new-dubliners-067-nov-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Living for the City: the new Dubliners (067, Nov 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve already had two quite exceptional and well-attended outings in Banter\u2019s autumn\/winter series about life in Dublin in the 21st century. After our looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/2013\/09\/05\/living-for-the-city-on-your-bike-060-sep-2013\/\">bikes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/2013\/10\/06\/living-for-the-city-the-gaffs-062-oct-2013\/\">gaffs<\/a>, it\u2019s time to turn the focus on the new Dubliners who\u2019ve moved to Ireland to make a home and a life for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/7225-immigrants-620x413.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-664\" alt=\"7225-Immigrants-620x413\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/7225-immigrants-620x413.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/7225-immigrants-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/7225-immigrants-620x413-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><em>New Dubliners pictured at a recent citizenship ceremony<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a discussion which has been prompted by many chats and observations over the last 12 months. The Irish migration narrative is usually all about people leaving Ireland and the whole generation emigration discussion, but this ignores the fact that many thousands of people are also moving in the other direction. Between the ongoing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/4-400-new-irish-take-part-in-citizenship-ceremonies-1.1453133\">citizenship ceremonies<\/a>, the many new businesses helmed by new arrivals and the fresh energy and enthusiasm provided by the newcomers, Ireland\u2019s migrants are making a valuable, if unheralded, contribution to this country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Dubliners<\/strong>\u00a0will look at the city through the eyes of those who\u2019ve moved here to make the city their home by talking a group of new Dubliners about their experience of living in the city: the good and the bad, the stuff that keeps them here and the things which make them pine for home, the ins and outs of making a home here.<\/p>\n<p>Our panel:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wissamecherfi\">Wissame Cherfi<\/a>\u00a0(film-maker),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/monika-sapielak\/19\/419\/960\">Monika Sapielak<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/cfcp.ie\/\">Centre for Creative Practice<\/a>),\u00a0<strong>Hassan Lemtouni<\/strong>\u00a0(cafe owner) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/letmehave\">Minhee Won<\/a>\u00a0(financial data research specialist). We\u2019ll also be screening Wissame\u2019s award-winning short\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=Kv-EwLRSzq0\">We Are Dublin<\/a>\u00a0on the night<\/p>\n<p>The details: The New Dubliners will take on Wednesday November 27 at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) from 8pm. Admission is free and you just need to sign in advance to the invite list <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/embeddedform?formkey=dDNoY0xLRW9OQ2I0bGduTml0R0N2VUE6MA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=Kv-EwLRSzq0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve already had two quite exceptional and well-attended outings in Banter\u2019s autumn\/winter series about life in Dublin in the 21st century. After our looks at bikes and gaffs, it\u2019s time to turn the focus on the new Dubliners who\u2019ve moved to Ireland to make a home and a life for themselves. New Dubliners pictured at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/living-for-the-city-the-new-dubliners-067-nov-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living for the City: the new Dubliners (067, Nov 2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}