DUBLIN CITY

DUBLIN   CITY

ABOVE YOU SEE O'CONNELL BRIDGE RIGHT NOW, CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO GO TO THE IRISH TIMES LIVE VIEW OF DUBLIN WEB SITE.


DUBLIN IS A PRETTY OLD TOWN, THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT WAS LOCATED WHERE THE RIVER PODDLE (WHICH I USED TO LIVE BESIDE) MEETS THE RIVER LIFFY (WHICH I NOW LIVE BESIDE).
AT THIS POINT THE WAS A DEEP BLACK POOL, DUBH LINN BEING THE GAELIC FOR BLACK POOL. THE CITY HAS A POPULATION OF ABOUT A MILLION PEOPLE WHICH IS ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION OF THE COUNTRY, THATS QUALITY NOT QUANTITY......




THINGS TO DO IN DUBLIN.............

PUB CULTURE

CAFE SOCIETY

STATUES

PLACES OF INTEREST


PUB CULTURE


THE BRAZEN HEAD

THE BRAZEN HEAD IS THE OLDEST PUB IN DUBLIN

MULLIGANS, POOLBEG STREET A REAL DUBLIN PUB,

FRANK RYAN AND SON, QUEEN STREET BESIDES THE FACT THAT IT'S MY LOCAL, RYANS IS EVERY THING THAT THESE THEME PUBS ASPIRE TO BE

THE FLOWING TIDE ABBEY STREET

KEOGH'S, SOUTH ANNE STREET

CAFE EN SIENE, DAWSON

THE CHOCOLATE BAR

GROGANS, SOUTH WILLIAM STREET SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE INTESIVE CARE UNIT

HANDELS HOTEL

THE FRONT LOUNGE


TEMPLE BAR


BEWLEYS, GRAFTON STREET NEARLY 160 YEARS OLD, AND SOME TIMES THE FOOD TASTES LIKE IT . BUT ITS A MUST TO VISIT IF YOUR IN DUBLIN IF ONLY FOR A COFFEE AND A BUN

101 TALBOT, TALBOT STREET

ODESSA, DAME COURT UPSTAIRS DOWN STAIRS SUNDAY BRUNCH

WELL FED CAFE,

CAFE MOCHA, SOUTH WILLIAM STREET


STATUES......

PICTURES TO FOLLOW
MOLLY MALLONE THE TART WITH THE CART
THE OLD LADIES THE HAGS WITH THE BAGS
JAMES JOYCE THE PRICK WITH THE STICK
ANNALIVIA THE WHORE(PRONOUNCED LIKE POOR) IN THE SEWER

PLACES


MOTHER REDCAPS MARKET
THE PHOENIX PARK
TRINITY COLLEGE





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