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Thelma @thelme55 (79311) • Germany 21 May

When my hubby drove me to Düsseldorf airport, the weather was already Irish. It was raining cats and dogs. It seems heaven prepared me for the Irish weather. I was glad there was no traffic jam that I arrived 2 hours before my...

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How the saying 'to chance your arm' came about

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 11 May 23

I picked up a book while I was in Ireland called The Pipes Are Calling and the authors tell of their various trips within Ireland. They visited one of Dublin’s Cathedrals and told an interesting story of a door there that has a...

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Our bags are packed

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 30 Apr 23

Another decoration that I liked at The Poacher restaurant in Ballina, Ireland, is what you see in the photo. Obviously, it means if it’s morning, it’s time for coffee but once it get to ‘pm’, then break out the wine glasses. In...

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Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Apr 23

The photo shows Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge which spans the River Liffey in the centre of the city. The cast-iron pedestrian bridge was built in 1816 in Shropshire, England and was originally called the Wellington Bridge. The name...

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These lads have five first names each. I'm totally jealous.

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Apr 23

While in Dublin, we visited the Dublin Wax Museum. I took a lot of photos including this awful one but I wanted to write about this duo so you’re stuck with the photo. I’d never heard of this pair but no doubt @FourWinds has and...

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Viceroy and vicereine - and old word and a new word for me

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Apr 23

The photo is of part of the formal garden at Kylemore Abbey. With all this sight-seeing and touring we’ve been doing, I guess it’s no surprise I’ve learnt a new word or two. I’ve known ‘viceroy’ for a long time but didn’t know...

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Homeless Jesus, Dublin, Ireland

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Apr 23

This statue of a homeless man is situated in the grounds of Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral. There was no notice nearby so I googled and found that the statue is called ‘Homeless Jesus’. Sculpted by Tim Schmalz, the Cathedral won...

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A violin for a giant

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Apr 23

We saw this on the way to Dublin yesterday. I don’t know what it’s made of; some sort of durable material. I made a bad joke about ‘no strings attached’ but actually it does have strings. I snapped this out of the car window but...

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Taking the weight off their feet for a moment

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 25 Apr 23

Today we went to Dublin for the day with our son. He had a meeting to attend and we filled in the time with some sight-seeing and an enjoyable lunch. We found the day really cold but at least it didn’t rain on us. We were all...

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A lucky dog in Nevers, France

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 25 May 19

We’ve been without internet for some days but are now in a hotel in Paris. Four of us fly out in the morning. While in Nevers in France, we visited the markets and I spotted this dog which was sitting in a child’s carrier behind...

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A Family Day in the Capital

Norman Darlington @NormanDarlo (1071) • Ireland 29 Oct 18

Today our entire family, the five of us, converged on Dublin, where we had a nice wander around in the fine autumn sunshine, ate a top-class vegetarian lunch in Cornucopia, and visited the Dublin Wax Museum. Here's a collage of a...

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Book Review Colm Quillighan Dublin Literary Pub Crawl

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Jun 18

2008 Writers’ Island One of the best books I have in my growing collection of pub guides and pub related literature in general. This is a guide to the Dublin pubs frequented by the literary giants of Ireland, from Brendan Behan...

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Man in a hurry going nowhere

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 26 May 18

After reading Inlemay’s (@Inlemay) post about mime men, I posted a photo in the comments about one of the ‘statues’ we saw in Dublin. The guy has even managed to make his tie fly out to one side as if the wind is blowing it. I...

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Pigeons Immortalised

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Oct 17

While in Ireland we attended a concert at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. We arrived much too early so had a coffee in a café across the street. In the courtyard area was an ornamental pond with a sculpture of dozens of...

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Birds on a wall

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Oct 17

While we were touring France our son and daughter-in-law shifted house in Ireland. They are now living quite close to Kells where the Book of Kells was written. We saw the Book of Kells in Dublin where the book is on display. Each...

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What's with the bottle?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Oct 17

I’m not usually a fan of graffiti but I was intrigued by this ‘work of art’ that I saw in Dublin and snapped from the car window. The guy looks like a motor-cycle rider but he’s sitting on a lawn-mower. It looks like a little...

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Diary Monday 21st August 2017

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Aug 17

Lots of little errands turned today into quite a busy one. I had to get some cash from the bank and discovered I had a little more money in than I expected, so I decided to treat myself a little later in the day. I paid some...

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Here's the key - but I'll not be giving it to you

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 22 May 17

On Sunday we are catching the train to Perth, capital of Western Australia. Later that evening we wlll catch a plane to firstly Dubai (11 hours) then, after a 2-hour stopover, we fly on to Dublin, Ireland (another 8 hours) where...

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An Irish town called Horseleap

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Mar 17

Following on from my posts about 'giant' icons in towns, there is a rearing horse in Ireland. When we visited there some years ago we travelled from Dublin to Galway several times. Each time we passed through Horseleap, a town...

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Citizenship Ceremonies

pgn @pgntwo (22405) • Derry, Northern Ireland 27 Nov 16

A fine morning at 09:30 on Friday 25-Nov-2016 saw a queue of people stretching around two sides of the Convention Centre, Dublin. These people were waiting patiently to be admitted to the first of two citizenship ceremonies that...

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