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Street Prophets Friday: Dublin Streets and Parks (photo diary/open thread) [1]
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Date: 2025-04-18
Greetings and welcome to another bit of community-flavored fluff. This week with fewer hairballs!
Yes, it was time for a change and I've gone for the hot weather special at the barbershop. Less hair, fewer hairballs. Also shaved off the beard for the first time in a decade or so. As hairy as a chocolate Easter bunny. Well, maybe the ones who have fallen behind the refrigerator. I feel that Linty the Lycanthrope has potential as the username of my next sockpuppet account.
Anyway, this week there'll be a few more pictures from my trip to Ireland last year. I've got something of a grab bag, some odds and ends from Dublin.
I know the sign “made to move” is about moving teeth using braces and such, but I still find the idea of moving teeth disquieting.
I made this little caricature drawing of our tour guides and presented it to them on the last evening we spent in Ireland. A little thank you for a wonderful trip. They decided on the spot that they'd have to share custody of it.
This odd mural adorned the wall of our room in the hostel. The book being read by this panda-headed figure is titled “Kamp Horst” which is an art collective from Rotterdam.
I believe there was some controversy around statues — maybe this statue, a few years ago.
The statue of Oscar Wilde
At the same corner of Merrion Square Park as the Oscar Wilde Monument is this lovely bronze.
Is that the National Gallery? I think it might be the National Gallery.
Grand Office of the Irish Prime Minister— among other things in this block of buildings.
Gardens in St. Stephen's Green
One of the ponds in the park
Outside the famous Temple Bar— packed to the gills. No Guinness for Marko.
No lack of lovely stone churches … not sure which one this was.
This however, is Saint Patrick's Cathedral. We did go inside and there may be more about that next week.
The Ha’penny Bridge from the north bank of the Liffey. There were a couple of people on huge water scooters— sort of like a snowmobile it seemed to me, kids that were racing back and forth under the bridge, doing quick turns at full speed and sending huge splashes of water onto the people crossing the bridge. Like the front seats on a log ride at an amusement park.
A whole store dedicated to Warhammer … I used to collect and paint little lead figurines as a lad.
One of my last parting shots of Dublin, taken from the bus on our way to the airport at an absurdly early hour.
Thanks for stopping by.
This is an open thread. I mean, truly open. Everything and anything you'd care to share is welcome in the comments. Drop a link, a rant. Promote a diary, a cause. It's all good, be welcome.
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