Moss Reid's Places

Pigeons of Discontent is a superb new documentary by Paddy Cahill about the pigeons of Stoneybatter. It was inspired by  Cónal Thomas...

Above: "Billy in the Bowl" by Shota Kotake, part of the @DublinCanvas series of painted traffic-light control boxes One of Du...

Has Stoneybatter really become the "gay capital" of the Irish universe? Here are two possible answers...

Benburb Street in Stoneybatter continues to have its little stretch of open-air gallery, which is one bright thing amid all that dilapida...

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

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...

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)...

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

"When the magnolia begins to blossom." It's almost like one of those much parodied movie moments in which the secret agents...

Believe it or not, an upmarket new Italian grocer in Stoneybatter called Mooz was once a location for a very famous film from 1983.

Walsh's pub in Stoneybatter (or "Walshes" with an "e" if, like me, you go by the spelling on its splendid stained...

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'...

Damn Fine Print was set up in 2011 as Dublin's first "community easy access screen print studio".

It's known in the trade as a "wet demolition". Despite the fire hoses the dust is everywhere, thick layers of it on the nea...

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

Hanlon's pub gives its name to Hanlon's Corner at the top of Prussia Street. It's an old Dublin landmark; the bar features in...

NOTE TO MEDIA: There is more to Stoneybatter than Mulligans , Mi Thai and Slice . And this part of town does not consist solely of hipster ...

Many of Stoneybatter's streets have Norse-sounding names. In a literal sense, most of them came via the Artisans' Dwelling Compan...

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...

To some TV viewers, O'Devaney Gardens stands for a fictional block of dilapidated flats in Dublin where Ado (Mark Dunne) has a boltho...