This is the final collection of images from Day 1 of my trip to Ireland with Andy. It also includes one more filming location from the movie ONCE.
Last Friday we left off we were admiring a busker and a couple of children that were dancing to their music. We will start up there again.
Lowkey one of my favorite images from the trip. From my trip so far…
So right off the bat we will get into the filming location from ONCE. This location is from the opening scene. Guy is busking. When he busks during the day he plays cover songs. As the movie opens he is playing Van Morrison’s “And the Healing has Begun”. An unsavory looking character named Anton (yep he gets a name but the main characters don’t) is hanging around listening to him play. Then he grabs Guy’s guitar case with all his tips on takes off running. Guy chases him as he runs across the street to a famous Dublin Park, St. Stephen’s Green. Once he is through the Fusilier’s Arch he stops and Guy catches back up with him.
Guy agrees to give him a “fiver” and Anton returns the rest of the money.
Still from ONCE
Fusiliers’ Arch
You have to cross the tracks to get there.
I did a fair amount of birdtography on this trip.
Where Guy catches Anton.
I don’t know what this sign means, but it gave me strong original “The Outer Limits” vibes. Which I dug of course!
Lord Ardilaun gifted the land St. Stephen’s Green is on to Dublin.
This is where the park’s head gardener lives. What a cool job this would be!
A public memorial dedicated to Irish poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-49), featuring a bronze bust of subject over a limestone pedestal, located within the central parterre of St. Stephen’s Green. The marble relief of Róisín Dubh by Willie Pearse (one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising), located on the face of the pedestal, is a symbol of Ireland and the subject of Mangan’s best-known poem, ‘Dark Rosaleen’.
A swan! Yet another sign that Iowa State would win the game.
A public sculpture depicting The Three Fates ‘spinning and measuring the thread of man’s destiny’. The bronze statue was created by German sculptor Josef Wackerle about 1956 and gifted to the Irish people by the West German people in gratitude for aid in the wake of the Second World War.
I remember thinking. I’ll Photoshop those power lines out when I get back to the States.
That’s better. For the most part.
Must be an English bird.
A bronze statue of the Irish nationalist and orator, Robert Emmet, who led the uprising of 1803 and who was executed on 20th September of that year. The statue, which is dated 1916, is one of four identical ones by the accomplished Irish-American sculptor, Jerome Connor, the others being located in the United States. In 1914, Connor was commissioned to produce a statue of Emmet for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. On the 13th April 1966 this statue was presented to the people of Ireland by The Robert Emmet Statue Committee of the United States. The life-like figure of Emmet is sited on the west side of St. Stephen’s Green, facing the site where the Emmet home once stood.
Pretty bird!
She asked me to take her picture. So I did! I took her picture! Hopefully some day she finds it.
An arch that improves the appearance of a park. What a novel concept.
There are 3 different trains that run through Dublin. That isn’t at all confusing if you are a tourist.
This is the Luas I believe.
We would ride this on game day.
And backbeat, the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out…
Down in the parking garage. Dublin parking garages are crazy!
On the way back to the AirBNB we stumbled across some awesome murals!
And that concludes Day 1 in Ireland. We got back to the AirBNB and hatched a plan for Day 2. Then crashed.
Next Friday we will start the Day 2 images. Day 2 was a massive long day. We drove all the way from Dublin to the Giants Causeway and then back down to Belfast to stay the night. Where we lost our car. But that is a story for Day 2.