Saint Patrick’s Day Photo Parade

Its being March 17, I have an excuse to post some photographs of Dublin and environs. What lingers in my mind from my visit in 2017 is the conviviality, the civility and, of course, the greenness.

Choose your tipple and celebrate the day. Sláinte mhaith!

The Dubliners

At home, and thinking about Ireland on St. Pat’s Day.

Almost two years ago, I went to Ireland and had a grand time.

What’s grand about Dublin? The people, the parks, the pubs, the presence of history, the nearness of the sea, the museums, the Georgian architecture.

Always a dangerous and irresistible byproduct of travel is the impulse to generalize about a place, a city, a country, from a quick touching down, a mere matter of days, but what I felt there was Dubliners’ eagerness to enjoy life and one another, their being less focussed on smartphones, more on face to face.

Now, at a moment when close encounters have been replaced by social distancing (how fast did that phrase go viral?), with nary a parade in sight, I’m revisiting Dublin virtually and doing a little sharing of the green.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featured in these photographs are the National Gallery, the Long Room of Trinity College’s Old Library and Trinity’s campus, the Little Museum of Dublin, Fallon & Byrne Food Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, Matt the Thresher restaurant, Merrion Square Park, the Temple Bar Food Market, and Cavistons Food Emporium in Sandycove.

Explore more of Dublin in my blog posts about Bloomsday (June 16) in the city and my first trip there, and in this article for GoNomad.