Dublin

[khiemtran]

On to Ireland now, where I never saw a drop of rain the whole week.




Let's start with Dublin...

As you might expect, Dublin has a great many pubs... (The "Hundred Thousand Welcomes", check. Traditional music, check. Guinness, (cough), check.)



Lots of Georgian houses...



And some very fine cathedrals.

Somewhat confusingly, there are no fewer than two Church of Ireland Cathedrals, which at first might appear to be one more than they need. Currently, Christ Church (pictured here, I hope) is the Cathedral for the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough (more on that later) and the other, St Patricks, is the National Cathedral. Christ Church is also nominally the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, but in practice he uses St Mary's as a Pro-Cathedral.



Joe Byrne bets here. But does he win?



There's Temple Bar and Grafton Street, of course, although I did start to tire of the crowds of tourists.



I much preferred the leafy canals.



Or St Stephen's Green...



As you may know, Dublin was founded by the Vikings...



Who came for the Fish and Chips... (At least according to the sign.)



Then there's the famed Irish sense of humour. (Hint: that's Molly Malone in the background.)



Here's the lady herself, the subject of a famous song which everyone seemed to know except for me. Molly sold cockles and mussels, alive alive, oh. The statue is now popularly known as The Trollope with the Scallop(s) or The Tart with the Cart, implying she may have sold more besides.



No cockles for me, but I'll have some mussels...



And maybe a Smithwicks...



The Guinness is nice in Dublin, but have you tried the Murphy's?



It's research, I tell you! Research!

Comments

[athgarvan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all the beautiful shots of Dublin and Dublin life. I hope all your friends like them and come to Ireland to see for themselves. I'm glad you got some nice weather when you were here.

It is a coincidence that there was a post from one of my Russian blog friends this morning also with lots of wonderful photos from the town of Tullamore in the centre of the country.

Thank you both for such interest in Ireland.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I certainly enjoyed my brief visit. It's just a shame I didn't get a chance to see more. I'll be posting more about the bits I did see over the next few days.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think Kate Beaton must have based Fanny the Fishmonger in row three of her comic on Molly Malone, here.

And indeed, how beautiful and sunny! I love the hillside shot up top.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

The weather was amazing the whole time I was there. And I mean that literally: the locals were all walking around amazed...

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Not a drop of rain! How can that be!? :P

Lovely shots, especially that field!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Not a drop of rain! How can that be!? :P

I know! One of the locals was joking about when the drought would break...

[88greenthumb.livejournal.com]

Great shots, but most of all love that shot of the field (topmost one,)the leafy canals & St. Stephen's green...Emerald Isle, it is, indeed!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was certainly very, very green; at least the part I saw. Even from the plane.

[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered the same thing about Joe Byrne...

That chipper is in fact famous, and in the evening there are regularly queues in front of it. Apparently, whatever about the oldest, it is in fact the best -- at least in the city centre. (As a veggie, I can't say...)
On top of it is the Lord Edward, a traditional place for meetings.

(...and I should really remember to check LiveJournal a bit more often...)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I didn't get to try the fish & chips at Leo Burdock, but I think I had it three times in the week I was there. We did go to Quays and FitzSimon's though. I'll admit I wasn't in quite the right mood for Temple Bar, and the jetlag didn't help.