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12a. More Quay and River Liffey Scenes
The Custom House on Custom House Quay. One of the finest buildings in Dublin.
The strikingly simple 'linesman' sculpture on City Quay by Dony MacManus.
A sculpture of Matt Talbot (1856-1925) on City Quay. He was alcoholic Dublin docker, a good union man, who had a religious conversion and maintained sobriety for the last 40 years of his life. An Irish ascetic, he was awarded venerable status by the Vatican and is an icon of the Irish Temperance Movement. He is revered by many Catholics in Ireland struggling with addiction problems. When he suddenly collapsed and died in a Dublin Street, it was discovered he had kept iron chains around is waist to do penance for his past.
The replica famine ship Jeanie Johnson berthed at Queen's Quay. She is registered at Tralee and was last seen in Dingle Harbour, Co. Kerry in the summer of 2007.
* Ireland - selected Irish views from walking-touring holidays * * Ireland - Irish holiday Landscape Scenes and Notes * * Dublin, the capital of Ireland, like any great city is packed with places of accommodation and tourist attractions to suit all budgets and cultural tastes * page updated Nov 9th 2007 * EMAIL Phil Brown * images-photographs-pictures-photos-webshots-views-snaps of the buildings, bridges, streets, squares and views of Dublin City etc., Ireland © Dr W P Brown * Scenes from other cities in Europe: London, England * Paris, France * York, England for a quick pictorial visit! |
