Photo: O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, Ireland
Given that I’m in Dublin, here’s a photo from the weekend, of the spot that divides the city.
I took this photo of O’Connell Bridge while indulging in a spot of levitation on Westmoreland Street. So you’re looking north, at the expanse of the bridge and on up O’Connell Street itself, which starts there at the Daniel O’Connell Monument and continues up beyond the Spire.
It was a largely unremarkable day in town. Republican Sinn Féin were out at the GPO complaining about something nbobody seemed to be listening to, and the Pro-Lifers were competing with them to shove leaflets at you. I missed the Legalise Cannabis march and sidestepped the money collectors from Concern, the Fire Brigade, and an alcoholism support group.
From the point of view of the photograph, ahead of me to the left there were tens of thousands of people unremarkably on Henry Street, and behind me thousands of people on Grafton Street - including a whole host of the usual buskers including puppeteers, didgeridooers, and your Frames/Mic Christopher ilk.
Stephen’s Green was littered with people without being crowded and as ever in town I saw people I knew, both ordinary people and famous people.
You won’t know the ordinary people but you should have heard of Neil Jordan. And I just missed out on Colm Meaney, the Starr-Trekking father of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy who I last saw in the excellent Kings.
But mostly I was looking at buildings and bridges, and statues and trees.
An ordinary day in town.
More of my Photos from Ireland
• Ireland - It Wasn’t All Mountains & Islands
• Walls of Dublin
• Scenery Around The Cottage
• The Grand Canal in Dublin
• At The Races - Clonmel
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