KILLARNEY - AUGUST 1985

THE RAINY SAGA CONTINUES

One of the highlights of this trip was supposed to be the Ring of Kerry. However, with the weather we got - foggy and rainy - there was no chance to do the tour. So we remained in Killarney, though some of the pictures I'm not sure where they were taken... It's incredible, but it happened!


"MARKET - I don't know where; maybe some visitor, if any, could help..."



"SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAIN"



"KILLARNEY is located north of the MacGillicuddy Reeks, on the north-eastern shore of the Lough Lein which are part of Killarney National Park. The town is home to some attractions and a nice base for the Ring of Kerry tour; but, due to the fog and rain, it was transformed into a one day destination"


"METHODIST CHURCH"




"KILLARNEY HOUSE & GARDENS? - Maybe"


"COLLEGE STREET


"FERRY AT SEA"


"GLENEAGLE - Entertainment: it seems that Killarney is a popular destination for partygoers. We had an experience at the GlenEagle!"

ON THE WAY TO CORK - AUGUST 1985

IRISH COUNTRYSIDE

My posts on Ireland are actually somehow weird in relation to the other I use to make. In fact, for some reason - maybe the fact that it was our first week abroad after the birth of our daughter, the terrible weather on the west coast of Ireland or something else... - I forgot to take notes on where the pictures were taken. Thus, twenty two years later, it's quite hard to find out where some of them were shot. Hope some expert on Ireland who sees the post could help...


"ONE FOR THE ROAD - Before departing Dublin, we visited Old Bushmill's whiskey shop"


"COUNTRYSIDE - When we left Dublin we started to be amazed with the beaury of the Irish countryside"



"IRISH SEA, ST. George's Channel. It seems there has been a long discussion on the building of an 80 km tunnel to link Britain and Ireland here, but with the financial results of the Channel Tunnel, people is less receptive to embark on the project. For the time being, the Irish Sea is described as the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world with some «eight million litres of nuclear waste» discharged into it each day from Sellafield reprocessing plants (Wikipedia)"


"COTTAGES - There were some beautiful ones on our way"


"GLENDALOUGH ROUND TOWER - Hopefully this subtitle is correct! The tower is part of an early Christian Monastic site founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. The monastic remains are located in a glaciated valley with two lakes, and include the superb Round Tower, stone churches and decorated crosses"




"RIVER SCENES - I wonder whether this could be Slaney River. Anyhow, I like the pictures and the scenery"


"BLUR - Someone took this distorted photo, somewhere in Ireland. The blur however resulted into an interesting picture, I think"


"ANOTHER ROUND TOWER somewhere between Dublin and Cork"


"HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, in Ireland..."


"COFFEE BREAK, PONEY WALK"


"BEACH"


"RIVER"


"THE OLD THATCH Pub and Restaurant in Killeagh, Co. Cork. Found the location on a picture from Janice Baxter"


"A CASTLE lost in the landscape"



"BLARNEY CASTLE - The Castle we may see today is the third to have been built on the site, after a wooden structure from the tenth century and a stone structure from circa 1210 A.D. In 1446 a third castle was built by McCarthy, King of Munster"


"BLARNEY STONE - Long line to join the world statesmen, literary giants, legends of the screen and the millions of pilgrims that climbed the steps of the castle to kiss the Blarney Stone and gain the gift of eloquence, or, like Lonely Planet puts it, gain the privilege of telling lies for seven years. Others, however, are more reluctant to do it, as they held the Blarney Stone as the Castle's latrine, which was normally situated over the moat so all the sewage would drop there and discourage any invader from push his way through a virtual excrement basin..."


"CASTLE PICTURE, scanned from paper; the previous was scanned from film"


"BLARNEY CASTLE VIEW towards the surrounding fields"


"BLARNEY BOUTIQUE - Cork is five miles away on your right..."


"CORK is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, the capital of the province of Munster, and hosts the World's second largest natural harbour, after Sydney, Australia. The river seen on the picture is the Lee, which flows through the city"

JAMES JOYCE'S LAND - AUGUST 1985

THE WETTEST WINTER I'VE EVER LIVED: A SUMMER IN IRELAND...

After Washington in May, I spent a whole week in The Hague (Den Haag or S'Gravenhage, in Dutch) for a meeting; actually, I was based in Scheveningen. However, not a single photo from the whole week could be found...
So the next trip will take the stage: Ireland. Let's start with Dublin.

DUBLINERS



"DUBLIN - The first surprise we had was the fact that, though our hotel was not that far from downtown, it looked like we were in the countryside..."


"CHURCH - Not surprisingly, we found churches around the corner"


"O'CONNELL BRIDGE (1791-1794) was originally named Carlisle Bridge. In 1880 it was renovated and renamed, and became the only bridge in Europe that is wider than it is long (or, at least, as wide as long...)"


"O'CONNELL STREET, with the statue of Daniel O'Connell, 19th century nationalist leader, by John Henry Foley, is the main thoroughfare in Dublin and one of the widest streets in Europe (49m). By the time there was no Spire there"


"TRINITY COLLEGE, designated as «The Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin», was founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland's oldest university"


"CAMPANILE -Trinity College, Parliament Square"


"TRINITY COLLEGE saw many people on its rooms, including Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Walton..."


"CONFERENCE CENTRE, Trinity College"


"BANK OF IRELAND - College Green hosted the Irish Parliament before the Act of Union 1800, and was the headquarters of the Bank until the 1970s, when they moved to a modern building in Baggot Street. Today visitors can still view the Irish House of Lords chamber within the building, which however remains a Bank's branch"


"GREAT GEORGES STREET ARCADE"




"ST.PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL is the largest church in Ireland, and its basis was built between 1191 and 1270, though now only the baptistery remains. The major reconstruction paid for by Benjamin Guinness, in the 1860s, means that much of the current building dates from the Victorian era. Throughout its long history the cathedral has contributed much to Irish life; for example, Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, was Dean of the cathedral from 1713 to 1745"


"RESTAURANT? - Someone will help finding out what building is this..."

Edited: Thanks to Tom Cosgrave and partner I found that «Bartley Dunnes is the name of the pub in the photo you cannot identify. It was a pub on Lower Stephen Street, and it was sold in 1991 to property developers who specialise in developing large drinking emporiums, or "superpubs". It was duly demolished and a large place called Break for the Border was built - it's an American theme pub and caters to parties and tourists». Thanks a lot!


"FUSILIER'S ARCH at St. Stephens Green"




"SHOPPING, after the chilly rain..."


"FAREWELL DUBLIN. You noticed the absence of Molly Malone? It’s a good reason to get back..."