Ireland's latest taoiseach (prime minister) happens to be gay, young (38) and have a dad from India. Cue plenty of international headlines making out like our country has suddenly become ultra progressive. As if.
Locations that feature in the Irish crime series about Stoneybatter PI Moss Reid...
Friday 23 June 2017
Wednesday 7 June 2017
The Jobstown House, Jobstown
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 its brilliant viral videos, starting with its entry in the "Mannequin Challenge" last year (above).
Monday 15 May 2017
A map of Stoneybatter (sort of)
As far as I know there's no official map of Stoneybatter, but here's one I made earlier (as they say on the best cookery shows). Click here for a much larger version.
As I explained in an earlier post, some of its borders are fairly clear-cut and uncontestable, others - particularly to the east where it meets Smithfield - are much less so.
Wednesday 26 April 2017
The horseman of Stirrup Lane
Less than a month after the tribute to Stormzy went up in Dublin's Smithfield district, another cool mural has arrived just around the corner, in Stirrup Lane. It's brilliant too.
Thursday 30 March 2017
Smithfield's mural to Stormzy
This mural tribute to rapper Stormzy has appeared overnight on the wall of the old Block T building on the Haymarket side of Smithfield in Dublin.
Friday 24 March 2017
The Hungry Tree in the King's Inns
"Inosculation," Wikipedia tells me, "is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together."
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