Comments on: The Dublin Chronicles, Part One.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:37:01 +0000

Darlin’ next time you’re in Dublin you really should do some sightseeing.

By: Eola

Eola — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:05:36 +0000

2nd attempt - I need tea. Oh here, and since I?m dropping comments like they?re going out of fashion, were you aware of the Long Room being used (allegedly) in one of them there Star Wars filims

By: Eola

Eola — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:02:59 +0000

Oh here, and since I’m dropping comments like they’re going out of fashion, were you aware of the Long Room being used (allegedly) in one of them there Star Wars filims

By: Eola

Eola — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:15:56 +0000

Yep Sam, that’s the one – it’s a great short story/

By: kara

kara — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:26:35 +0000

I love the architecture of the Guinness Brewery. It reminds me of the Wonka Factory. Nobody ever goes in…no one ever comes out.

By: problemchildbride

problemchildbride — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:09:59 +0000

Sorted.

And ta for the info. I have masses to see next time. I think I read about the Pigeon House in The Dubliners. That one about the 2 wee boys skiving school who see the old man jerking off.

By: Eola

Eola — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:03:58 +0000

Whoops – I didn’t close my italics properly after “Cluain Tarbh” – you might want to fix that for me sam or every following comment will be in all italics – sorry.

By: Eola

Eola — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:01:19 +0000

Sam, so far as I know the sand spits that formed from silt on both sides of the Liffey were said to cause sounds at certain times through tide and wind, sounds that put people in mind of a bull’s bellowing.

The sand spit on the north side adjoins Dublin at Clontarf which comes from the Irish Cluain Tarbh – Bull’s Plain or Meadow. The North Bull Wall is built along the sandbar and caused the island of sand to form behind it. This is the Bull Wall of Bligh that Bock referred to.

And across the mouth of the Liffey the South Bull Wall is built on the sandbar over there – it comes out by Poolbeg power station, what we call the Pigeon House where the two famous (to U2 fans) red and white chimney stacks rise from. The south Bull wall is older.

Both afford you the ability to stand in the middle of the bay

By: VincentH

VincentH — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:21:51 +0000

PCB, the temple bar is more a state of body than a actual place, and none too bad for all that. And having just read your follow on post….
While Beann Eadair/Howth is a lovely place it requires a bit of time and at least four extra layers, as it is the coldest spot on the entire Island. And the RNLI have/had a very good secondhand bookshop

By: problemchildbride

problemchildbride — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:58:06 +0000

Bock, I am coming back to Dublin one day and will hunt for it. Why is the Bull Wall called that though?

Vincent, thanks for the info, I appreciate it. One place I didn’t get to at all except for a coffee one day, was Temple Bar. Fmc were planning on going out to Howth too, but I regret I was too hungover and the day was pouring wet anyway, so we aborted the mission.

Caro, I get homesick too from time to time. I hope you’ll be able to get over again soon.

Conan, I heard about that on the bus tour going past St. Patrick’s and had a wee read about it. The great thing is that there’ll still be masses of new stuff for me to see when i come back.

Savannah, yeah but if you read the next post you will discover that I did sleep for most of Friday. But there was really no way around it. The demon Carlsberg hurt me bad, baby. If I was to meet any more bloggers on Friday night, I needed to stay in a darkened room for the morning. I was still a wee bit jetlagged too and although I regret not seeing more, it was worth it for the rest and to be fresher for the Friday night meet-up, one of the main reasons I was there.