Looking Slightly Hostel
Tag: Ireland
Dodging a Banana Peel
Ulysses 10.504-20:
While he waited in Temple bar M‘Coy dodged a banana peel with gentle pushes of his toe from the path to the gutter.
Lotus Eaters
from Leopold Bloom’s stream of consciousness in the Lotus Eaters chapter of Ulysses:
Lost it. Curse your noisy pugnose. Feels locked out of it. Paradise and the peri. Always happening like that. The very moment. Girl in Eustace street hallway. Monday was it settling her garter. Her friend covering the display of. Esprit de corps. Well, what are you gaping at?
Anna Livia
For the explanation of this post title, see Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s
from swerve of shore to bend of bay
Industrial Chic
Nighttown
Atop the Guinness Storehouse is the Gravity Bar, a glass enclosure providing views across Dublin
Stout Water
Part of the Guinness Storehouse tour takes you past this waterfall with explanations of the importance of the water used in the making of Guinness Stout.
Kilted Drummers
Fireman
We were treated to various tourist sights and sites. Here, some fire twirlers performed to the beat of kilted drummers outside the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.
Hotel Room Morning
Charles Stewart Parnell
I was introduced to Parnell by James Joyce. Early in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, young Stephen Dedalus overhears an argument about Parnell among family members. A leader for Irish home rule and powerful member of Parliament, Parnell was brought down by the publicity surrounding his adulterous affair in conservatively Catholic Ireland which divided young Dedalus’ family between those placing greater weight on his liberating political potential and those on his religious sins.
This framed image hung in a hallway of my hotel and Parnell is top center.
The observant will have noted that this blog’s tagline, “…from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to dear dirty New York,” is adapted from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
Saggart Village Cemetery
Irish Dusk
Hotel Room Views
Just back from a week-long business conference in a hotel and conference center outside Dublin. There were not a tremendous number of good opportunities to go shooting but I did manage a bunch of landscapes around the convention center grounds and on a couple of brief group fun forays into tourist Dublin.
