Dublin—Friday

May 3rd

Our last full day in Dublin was spent at the Seamus Heaney exhibition. This may sound sacreligious but we enjoyed this one more than the W.B. Yeats exhibit. Enjoy the pull-quotes from his works (click to enlarge) and some of the other pictures we took at this exhibit.

His first book published in 1966.

 

Afterward, we took a longer walk through the neighborhood up Grafton Street where we listened to and purchased three CD's from Keywest. We strolled through St. Stephen's Green, and then a local market before stopping at O'Donahue's Pub for a beer, a cider, and cheese fries. 

In the early evening we headed over to The Voyager for a final goodbye, listen to some live music, and have dinner. We were surprised that everybody working greeted us and wanted to know what we'd done yesterday and asked when we were going home.

The place was hopping on a Friday and it was fun being part of the local scene and its good craic. Sean, our favorite barkeep arrived as we were about to leave and we were happy to see one another. He remembered we were flying home Saturday and we visited a bit and took a picture before he headed to another pub to listen to a friend play an acoustic set.

This sample of "Dream Stealer" is a song by Keywest about rapacious capitalism. You can listen to the whole song on YouTube here.

This guy stretches Saran Wrap between two light poles
and then spray paints a temporary mural. Tomorrow, he
will do a different one.

St. Stephen's Green.

This pic and the next seven were taken inside George's St. Arcade.

Sean, the best barkeep in Dublin.