Timmy and Helen decided to join me for a walk around Dublin city center today. We parked the car in the Jervis Centre and walked across the Halfpenny Bridge into Temple Bar. I took some pictures of Trinity College and the Bank of Ireland building, then walked up Grafton Street to the gallery on Molesworth Street where Joe’s exhibition is. We checked out the exhibition then walked back to Wicklow Street to have lunch.
Before we left town, we walked down Henry Street to find the church where Wolfe Tone was baptized. A few years ago the church was gutted and turned into a nightclub. Now it is a fancy bar and restaurant though it looks like some restoration has taken place. It seems very sad to me that Ireland’s greatest connection to the French Revolution has been forgotten. But what is even sadder to me is that the historical record embedded in the architecture of Dublin is rapidly disappearing along with some of the most beautiful buildings in Europe. Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone . . .
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There is trad music in the Cobblestone Pub in Smithfield (tonight and most other nights) if you are still in Dublin. Its just down the northen end of the square. nice pub as well.
I am still in Donegal until the 29th.
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