The Phoenix Park Tunnel

The Phoenix Park Tunnel is probably a complete mystery to most Dubliners, though that may change soon.

Drovers and drivers on the North Circular

Here's an old photo of a herd of cattle  on the North Circular Road in Dublin. Yeah, we really did have regular cattle drives up and down those streets back then. Not exactly John Ford or John Wayne, maybe, but just as "awesome" in their own little way...

The pebbledash homes of Dublin 7

"Beyond Pebbledash"  is a sort of architectural installation in Collins Barracks, which is part of the National Museum of Ireland.

I've just been checking it out for research on my next novel.

It's a full-scale reconstruction of  the facade of one of those "typical" pebbledash-fronted houses built by Dublin Corporation in areas on the southside such as  Crumlin and Ballyfermot from the 1940s to the 1960s. And Cabra on the northside, just up the road from Stoneybatter and Grangegorman.