A little piece of Berlin-aesthetic on South Richmond Street
Liberty Lane
If walls could talk. Feels like a lot of history happened on this lane, just off Camden Row and the hussel bussel of Camden Street.
I read in Come here to me that it used to once go all the way from Kevin Street to the canal at Portobello. A big warehouse, built in the 70's bisected it...with the remaining southern sections being renamed later.
I don't agree with the lads though. A map from 1837-1842 shows that, while the Lane does lead from Kevin St. as far as the South Circular, even by then the Georgian terrace at the junction of the South Circular had already cut its path to the canal. Don't blame the warehouse...it was the bloody Georgians.
But before that terrace was built, in the early 1700's, the laneway certainly would have gone right to the Canal. These back lanes would have been a hive of activity. With all sorts; some nice, some nasty...but these were the very veins of the city.
I love Dublin's old lane ways. Some of them just feel so old...they give a glimpse into the past sometimes; Liberty Lane made me feel that.
Price's Place
From Ranelagh Road.
I love the surprise views you get, from numerous places around here, of the dome of the Church of Mary Immaculate, Rathmines.
It's scale can sometimes be surprising...
Songs from 1967
These gigs don't just happen...they're crafted. What a pleasure it was to share a room with some of the finest musicians in the country, rehearsing for tomorrow night's Songs from 1967, in the Grand Social.
What a collection of tunes 1967 gave us...and what a thrill to hear the lads nail them. It'll be quite the night.
Stalwarts Dave McGuinness & Duncan Maitland have, yet again, assembled an amazing crew, this time to pay homage to an epic year for music...from the Velvets to the Beatles, and everywhere in between.
It's going to be beautiful...I'm very excited to be playing a small part. ✌️
Tickets here; http://www.thegrandsocial.ie/events/summer-love-songs-1967/
On to Cumberland Road
From Wilton Terrace.
This building is so aggressive, but there's something I like about it's lines and forms. There's still quite a few examples of this, almost brutalist style, left in the city; relentless, precast concrete structures. One by one though, they are being demolished and redeveloped. Phibsborough shopping center is next for the chop.
There is an argument to maybe refurbish and reuse them...brutal and all as they are; they are massive concrete structures, no easy job to dismantle. But in the end, I guess, economics will dictate. I, for one, will not mourn their demise.
Goodnight moon
From a yard, off Manor Street. Stoneybatter.
Richmond Street South
Portobello.
This corner shop was always a late night port of call...
Mountpleasant Avenue
Sometimes, at the end of a terrace, you get an unusually shaped plot within which to wedge a house.
This is one such Georgian example, on Mountpleasant Avenue, just to the west of Ranelagh village.
The blue mini
At yesterday evening's Stoneybatter Slideshow, one of the images I included in my talk was a shot I took up on Moira Road.
It's one of my favourite shots. It's hanging in the RHA right now, which I'm chuffed about. I always hoped I'd find out who owned the blue mini at the end of the road so I could give them a copy.
It being Stoneybatter, the thought occurred to me to ask the assembled crowd if anyone recognised it, or knew the owner. Up popped a hand, and a girl says "it's me!!!"
Great moment. I was delighted. I'll be giving her this copy of the shot today...the circle is complete.
Sarah Barrett, the blue mini's owner, with her copy of Moira Road
Stoneybatter Slidehow
Delighted to be playing a wee part in the Stoneybatter Slideshow tomorrow at 5:30 in Bí Urban as part of this weekend's festival.
More info over on the Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/events/1330290470351694/?ti=icl
