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The beach stretches in front of you: 800 metres wide and five kilometres long. At 6.30 a.m. it’s mostly empty, although when you arrived, you met a handful of early risers in the car park. (A man glanced at your camera and asked, “Anything special today?” He thought you were a…
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In his much-quoted opening of Dublin 1660-1860, the architectural historian Maurice Craig describes how one of the most momentous events in history, the taking of Byzantine Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, had a side effect with unexpected consequences. Byzantium, a huge Christian empire and the surviving eastern…
Just polishing a post, the next in my series on Dublin gallery posts, following on from our last piece on William Dargan, the Great Exhibition and the origins of the NGI. But as a little teaser, can anyone tell me what this is? Who is the design by? For who, and for what ?… Read More Bridge over Troubled Waters.
The history and origin of the National Gallery of Ireland are somewhat unusual because it was founded as sort of afterthought or consequence of the Great Dublin exhibition, 1853. This was one of the spectacular trade, arts and industry Great Fairs characteristic of the 19th century. The Great Dublin Exhibition was also itself unique in… Read More William Dargan’s legacy: the National Gallery of Ireland.
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When I went for my first proper San Telmo walk 5 weeks ago, not nocturnal for once but in hard, bright sunlight, I didn’t know what to look at, the lovely old buildings, the people or th blue sky. What grabbed my attention most forcefully in the end…
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Here’s a little walking tour I did in my second week, less the directions I am afraid, (I was too busy taking pictures, avoiding traffic and gawping at buildings to jot down the street names) But I think you’ll be able to follow a similar route. I started in my own area of San Telmo, and…
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The last post was an epic, annotated list on the best sights & visits in Dublin. At the end is appended a few of my favorite coastal walks outside the city. Today, just a bit more detail on my favorite South side walk, from Dun Laoghaire to the end of Killiney beach, specifically the best…
This text is moving. This feast is moving. Hi to all my kind, loyal and highly-discerning readers and visitors. Please note, I’ll be posting more and more of my posts on the new Blog Dublin Decoded and I’d love to take you with me, so if or when you vist, please take a second… Read More Moveable Feast, and Moving to Org.
In the car yesterday, on the way to the second year of the wonderful History Festival of Ireland. The Festival itself was super, and I’ll post about that directly in the next few days. But even the trip down, through the landscapes of county Kildare and county Carlow, was a treat too, with mad mix of… Read More Driving into History, and towards Ducketts Grove.
During the recent posts on Dun Laoghaire, I promised to briefly return to this charming piece of civic detail. It is known as the Victoria Fountain. It was erected to commemorate the visit of that queen to Dublin, passing through Dun Laoghaire in 1900, in what would turn out to be the last full year of her… Read More Dun Laoghaire Detail, revisited.
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