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Hearts and roses day

Happy Valentines Weekend. I hope that if you have a significant other in your life that you are making the day special. Not necessarily with the flashy roses and chocolates, but with little surprises. How many of you know the real story of St Valentine...

Published 14 Feb 2010 10:57 AM by Grannymar

Filed under: Dublin

Captain Cool *** Doesn't Live up to his Name

Today it's nice and bright and I'm on late shift so I'm a wee bit happier about everything, I've sent off a load of job applications and though they're for *** jobs I'm sure the change of scenery will be nice, so yeah I'm being...

Published 8 Feb 2010 12:49 PM by Party Down and Go *** Yourself

Filed under: Belfast, Dublin, sex, Drogheda, Dundalk, call centre, hoors bastard, fat mo, captain cool bastard, nightclub, rapist, dublin airport bus, love in this club, pulling, usher, rape, cassanova

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Friend (F): Did you not go out tobogganing? Me (M): LOL! I went ice skating instead. Snow is for young people, I was out for 30 mins today and an hour on 29th Dec. (F): You won’t break any records with that! (M): I don’t want to break anything...

Published 12 Jan 2010 6:13 AM by Grannymar

Filed under: humour, Dublin, Global Warming, Weather, facts of life, memories, beds, Childhood

Man Falls in Snow in Dublin

I know I shouldn't be laughing at this...

Published 10 Jan 2010 11:51 PM by San Fran ♥ Belfast

Filed under: Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Weather

Glen Hansard, Bono, and Damien Rice Busking on Grafton Street?

Damn, I would have killed to see this!!!!

Published 26 Dec 2009 3:27 PM by San Fran ♥ Belfast

Filed under: Dublin, Glen Hansard, Mundy, Damien Rice, Bono, Grafton Street

The Dublin Zoo Slide (My World Tuesday)

We've never taken our youngest child to the Zoo yet, and when we realised that a few weeks ago decided we had to get there this summer, one way or the other. These photos are from our last visit, a few years ago now. Hard to believe it's been...

Published 29 Jun 2009 5:29 PM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, My World Tuesdays

Dublin Door

Taken through a bus window a few weeks back, one of the classic glossy-painted arched-window doors that just say "Dublin". This one's just off St. Stephen's Green.

Published 14 Jun 2009 4:06 PM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, architecture

Bridge Building

Wise Web Woman should be packing her case in readiness for her forthcoming trip to Ireland. She arrives in on 30th May and next day she will be up bright and early to take part in the Flora Ladies Mini Marathon in Dublin City. Oh for the energy! So, if...

Published 26 May 2009 6:02 AM by Grannymar

Filed under: blog awards, events, Blogging, Dublin, Meetings, friends, Bloggers

Old and New

I love this old building, south of Dublin: it's aging gracefully with thinning plaster, worn stone, shattered paint, and a lovely fall of free-growing hedge over its garden wall. Not sure what I think of the satellite dish attached to the corner....

Published 20 May 2009 9:49 PM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, architecture

Easter Sunday 2009

While we were in Dun Laoghaire, we climbed a hill overlooking the harbour to visit this sculpture: Christ the King. The hill elevates the large sculpture above the town, and a pedestal lifts it further, so that you find yourself gazing straight up at...

Published 11 Apr 2009 8:51 PM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: art, Dublin, holy sites of Ireland

Queen Victoria Fountain

Lions and owls and griffins, oh my... In 1821, the Irish seaside town of Dun Laoghaire was re-named Kingstown in honour of a visit from King George IV of England. One hundred years later, on the eve of Independence, the town council voted to restore the...

Published 4 Apr 2009 11:09 AM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, Camera Critters, architecture

Sandycove Spring

Another look at yesterday's Tower in Sandycove, from behind this lovely tree. This photo was taken during the first week of Spring, so its lovely branches will soon be hidden by green: that's a joy and a sorrow at the same time, I think. This...

Published 3 Apr 2009 1:45 PM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, trees

Skywatch Friday at James Joyce's Tower

Irish author James Joyce opened his famous novel Ulysses here on the tower overlooking Dublin Harbour from Sandycove. Originally built to defend the country from a threatened invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte, it now houses a museum commemorating the author...

Published 2 Apr 2009 9:41 AM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, skywatch friday, architecture

James and Joyce Visit the Seaside

Not sure if theirs is an old ritual or a first date, but these two are enjoying the view over the Irish Sea together, near Sandycove south of Dublin. Perhaps they "gaze southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on...

Published 28 Mar 2009 12:27 PM by This Irish Photograph

Filed under: Dublin, Camera Critters, birds

Picturegate

I tuned into RTÉ News on Monday night and saw a rather amusing story about a practical joke in Dublin. I didn't think much more about it until a storm brewed over the incident, which has become known as 'Picturegate'. Basically the stunt involved...

Published 25 Mar 2009 11:35 AM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: Twitter, Banksy, Today FM, RTÉ, picturegate, National Gallery, TD, Brian Cowen, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Dublin, Charlie Flanagan, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gardaí, Michael Kennedy

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