Comments on: Glad to be Irish Cont’d. http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/ A love letter Mon, 21 May 2012 17:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Justin http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Justin Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:15:16 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-589 Darren would be keen to know that the Dublin Natural History Museum is now a museum in its own right -- it's a perfectly preserved example of what they were like at the turn of the century. "hilariously tiny" Powerscourt Falls? Damn Canadians with their fancy igneous landscape and big waterfalls! (also: mental note: Karlin eats in L'Ecrivain. Must hang out with Karlin when I get back ;) Darren would be keen to know that the Dublin Natural History Museum is now a museum in its own right — it’s a perfectly preserved example of what they were like at the turn of the century.

“hilariously tiny” Powerscourt Falls? Damn Canadians with their fancy igneous landscape and big waterfalls!

(also: mental note: Karlin eats in L’Ecrivain. Must hang out with Karlin when I get back ;)

]]> By: Michael O'Connor Clarke http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Michael O'Connor Clarke Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:09:01 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-588 The Gallarus Oratory - oh dear God, yes. What a wonderful, peaceful, moving place. And at the opposite end of the spectrum - McDaid's of Harry Street (from 1988 to about 1994). Also - O'Flahertys in Dingle. At one o'clock on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. With the local Gardai coming across the road after their shift to join in the craic. And sleeping with my head out of the tent that night - my collie, Tara, snuffling beside me. The Gallarus Oratory – oh dear God, yes. What a wonderful, peaceful, moving place.

And at the opposite end of the spectrum – McDaid’s of Harry Street (from 1988 to about 1994).

Also – O’Flahertys in Dingle. At one o’clock on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. With the local Gardai coming across the road after their shift to join in the craic. And sleeping with my head out of the tent that night – my collie, Tara, snuffling beside me.

]]> By: Darren http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Darren Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:25:35 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-587 * Toners * The mystery that is Fitzwilliam Square * The hilariously tiny Powerscourt Falls, the tallest waterfall in Ireland * The Temple Bar Market * The absolutely dire UGC cinema on the north side (I hear they're renovating it) * The Screen Cinema, with its thousand year old ticket-taker And, my favourite place in Dublin: * The strange and wonderful Natural History Museum. I wrote about it here: http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/2003/03/18.html#a181.
  • Toners
  • The mystery that is Fitzwilliam Square
  • The hilariously tiny Powerscourt Falls, the tallest waterfall in Ireland
  • The Temple Bar Market
  • The absolutely dire UGC cinema on the north side (I hear they’re renovating it)
    • The Screen Cinema, with its thousand year old ticket-taker

    And, my favourite place in Dublin:

    ]]>         By: Karlin Lillington http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Karlin Lillington Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:14:41 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-586 * Coalmen with horse-drawn carts -- still. * The conversational phrase, "Come here to me..." followed by "Go away!" * That moment in early March when everyone starts to say, "There's a grand stretch to the evenings now, isn't there?" * The scent of March hyacinths in St Stephen's Green * St Stephen's Green * Dinner in L'ecrivain * Political gossip * Leisurely coffee in The Merrion Hotel's beautiful, art-filled lobby
  • Coalmen with horse-drawn carts — still.
  • The conversational phrase, “Come here to me…” followed by “Go away!”
  • That moment in early March when everyone starts to say, “There’s a grand stretch to the evenings now, isn’t there?”
  • The scent of March hyacinths in St Stephen’s Green
  • St Stephen’s Green
  • Dinner in L’ecrivain
  • Political gossip
    • Leisurely coffee in The Merrion Hotel’s beautiful, art-filled lobby
    ]]>         By: Damien http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Damien Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:08:30 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-585 Ireland finally being somewhere emigrate to, not from. We're all better off for it. Ireland finally being somewhere emigrate to, not from. We’re all better off for it.

    ]]>         By: Bert http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Bert Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:43:21 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-584 The peace and solitude of Lough Nafooey http://www.ioiltd.demon.co.uk/landscapes/nafooey.htm The peace and solitude of Lough Nafooey

    http://www.ioiltd.demon.co.uk/landscapes/nafooey.htm

    ]]>         By: Pádraig http://dervala.net/2004/03/18/glad-to-be-irish-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-583 Pádraig Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:30:31 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=560#comment-583 Chips from Burdock's Running into people you know on Grafton Street No more than three degrees of separation Chips from Burdock’s

    Running into people you know on Grafton Street

    No more than three degrees of separation

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