Moss Reid's Places

There's no general agreement on how to spell them (Sheela na gig, Síle na gcíoch, Síle na gCíoc...) or what they stand for.  But t...

Ghost signs are a recurring motif in Ghost Flight , such as this one - an abandoned shopfront at 58A Arbour Hill in Stoneybatter. The boo...

Dublin writer and artist Christy Brown was born on this day in 1932.  My Left Foot,  Jim Sheridan's award-winning film from 1989, tell...

Arbour Hill's military cemetery is the last resting place of 14 of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. It is currently undergoing ...

The UN memorial garden in Arbour Hill in Dublin will be an early location in the fourth Moss Reid book. A small garden with at least thre...

Dublin has its fair share of bloody street names. Literally.

Arbour Hill's church and cemetery will feature prominently in Dublin's Easter 1916 centenary commemorations. And in Book #4 of th...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the Belfry (mentioned briefly in Black Marigolds) is one of Stoneybatter's oldest pubs. ...

I've seen stranger turnabouts in elections before, but surely the SNP will take most - possibly all - of Scotland's seats this week,...

You don't come across many films showing the massive old cattle market in Stoneybatter, aka "Cowtown". But you do get glimpses...

The occasional tourist might ask you for directions "to the church on Arbour Hill". They're probably looking for the Church...

To get a good idea of Walshes pub on Manor Street in Stoneybatter, check out this superb new video by award-winning director and music docum...

Update: just weeks after I wrote this, in September 2014 the Joinery announced that it would be closing down for good the following Decem...

Over the years Benburb Street has certainly been through the wars. Literally. If you stroll, jog, cycle or take the tram along its rou...

Stoneybatter used to have at least one Magdalene Laundry: St Mary's in Stanhope Street, controlled by the Sisters of Charity.

Talk about timing. It was May 2007, just months before the Irish economy would implode dramatically like a neutron star. I can't imagin...