Moss Reid's Places

The corner shop, that endangered species... One such local institution in Dublin 7 is - or rather, was - Tommy May's. Remember May...

Dublin humour can be playful, cynical, surreal and full of wicked wordplay. It's a bit like the kid at the back of the class who'...

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...

"Hurry on down to Bargaintown Where the prices are only famous..." What or where is Bargaintown? Bargaintown is a brand, a...

Among countless tunes about Dublin*, it's hard to beat Phil Lynott's "Old Town". The song has become inseparable from its ...

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

Surely the Ha'penny Bridge in the centre of Dublin doesn't pop up all  that often in Irish crime fiction - not within the actual te...

Film stills all from "Girl With Green Eyes" - apart from the above one, which is from "Smashing Time" I'm a hug...

A traditional view of Dublin sees the city in terms of a north-south axis. That's the impression you might get from, say, the journeys i...

Here's a slightly unusual motorcyclist's-eye-view of Dublin. It's a journey along the Liffey quays to Stoneybatter and Grangegor...

Visual Artists Ireland and the sculptors' union should be paying me an honorary stipend by now. You see, in each 'Moss Reid' mys...

Stoneybatter is the centre of Moss Reid's universe in my series of crime novels about the foodie PI. But where exactly is Stoneybatte...

Everyone calls it the Ha'penny Bridge, don't they? Even though its official name is the Liffey Bridge, and its original name was t...