The last Guinness is drained, the last brandy and dry is sipped. We used our final Sunday afternoon to visit one of Dublin’s few remaining pubs with original Victorian decor, The Long Hall in South Great George’s St, which had…
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli has just completed a 4-city tour of the UK and Ireland: Sheffield, Glasgow, London and Dublin. We were very fortunate to be given tickets to the show at the 9,500-seat 3Arena plus free entry to the attached 1878…
Bray to Greystones
These two towns are on the coast south of Dublin and there is a popular walking track along the cliffs between them which we walked on Saturday. To get to Bray is relatively simple – we walked from our apartment…
Easter 1916 commemoration
On Easter Monday 1916 a few hundred Irish men and women took part in an armed rebellion against the British who controlled the country. They held a few major buildings in Dublin for about a week before being forced to surrender by the…
Hugh Lane Gallery
We were at the Hugh Lane Gallery on Sunday for a concert (see Other tab, 13 Mar) and we couldn’t help but be struck by the large numbers of very fine art works they hold. This is a place that…
A Day in the Life of…
It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve blogged by myself. Trawling back, it seems to have been April 2015! Partly this is because I’ve been very busy, and partly because Bruce is (a) wittier and (b) way better at…
Culture Night 2015
I sometimes think that everyone in Ireland is a performer – singing, playing an instrument, dancing, telling stories… Culture Night is an outworking of this in a once-a-year event across the whole country (in fact, the whole island, including the…
Howth Summit Walk
A summer morning in Howth near Dublin At the north end of Dublin Bay is a small peninsula on which sits the pretty fishing village of Howth, about which we have blogged before. What we haven’t yet done is walked…
More visitors to Dublin
A hectic but exciting three weeks as first, cousin Christine visited us as a side trip from her UK destination, then the following week we moved to our new apartment and the week after that Ruth and John (Richard’s parents)…
Family Visit
Nothing too touristy this time. Just a record of a few photos taken when Andie and Pete came to stay. They packed a lot in to their time here, travelling to the west coast for a few days, bookended by…