Moss Reid's Places

"Sunset Connoisseur" is an instrumental track on Limerick musician Paddy Mulcahy's latest vinyl album How To Disappear, w...

Ireland's latest taoiseach (prime minister) happens to be gay, young (38) and have a dad from India. Cue plenty of international headl...

The Jobstown House gets a quick mention in book #4 of the Moss Reid series, The Rebel Type . I first found out about the Dublin pub via it...

This mural tribute to rapper Stormzy has appeared overnight on the wall of the old Block T building on the Haymarket side of Smithfield ...

"Inosculation," Wikipedia tells me, "is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together...

An earlier post deals with 83 Manor Street in Stoneybatter, with its magnolia tree and Austin Clarke connections and the work of maste...

- Child at play, Railway Street, Dublin, 1913 So far I've not woven any of the history of Monto into a Moss Reid story, but it's...

It's turning out to be the biggest public art project in the city, a simple idea to brighten up the streetscapes by giving artists th...

Time for a very long ramble about the ground behind my feet. Picture the scene. It's mid-May 2011, the week before the Queen of Eng...

Always looks closed from the outside, doesn't it? Yeah, but it's an open secret. Just look at the queue on the street tonight....

A view from the top floor of Busáras "Dubliners have a love–hate relationship with Busáras." That's how one character pu...

A question for your next pub quiz: "What was the name of the very last old 'cottage' by Busáras in the centre of Dublin?...

Sightings of Bono began life as a short story by Irish writer  Gerard Beirne in the Sunday Tribune in 1995. It went on to be anthologised...

This video of archive material is a fascinating glimpse into Dublin city's people and architecture back in the second half of the 20...

Here's a short list of places in and around Dublin that are featured in the crime thriller Ghost Flight.