Dublin City Soul Festival

My son, Steve, was playing with his band, Murder Plan, at the Dublin City Soul Festival in Temple Bar tonight.  We arrived just in time to miss them! However I heard they were awsome (doesn't surprise this chick)

The pic shows Steve with Paul.  Steve is the only one of our sons to take up music like Paul.

Below is Marie, Steve, Paul and Stephanie, the singer with Murder Plan

Dublin, of course, has many famous musical sons and daughters and some of them are featured at The Wall of Fame in Temple Bar - below: Window sized photos of Irish rockers U2, Rory Gallagher, Sinead O'Connor, Luke Kelly (Dubliners) Christy Moore, Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzie) and Van Morrison

Temple bar is THE cool place to be in Dublin and is akin to the Left Bank in Paris. It has a great buzz to it with colourful pubs and unusual street muscians

Below a Karma street sign reminds all that what goes around comes around!

Flags of many nations flying in Temple Bar which is abuzz with young people and tourists on a beautiful summer evening in Dublin's Temple Bar.

I love the original old cobbled streets of Temple Bar. 

One of the unusual musicians I was telling you about.......

Above this busker seems to be playing a skirting board but I can tell you it has a wonderful sound and he plays it really well. 

While I was in the city centre I took lots of pictures for you. Below is the main street of Dublin O'Connell Street showing the Spire

Below The Auld Dub Pub. A Dub is a Dubliner and auld is old. Here is my auld Dub - Paul

Colour everywhere.

An old door cleverly used as an advertisement for a pub/restaurant

 One of my favourite buildings in Dublin. It always reminds me of a Disneyland fairytale castle...It is actually the where I give blood, the headquarters of the Blood Bank!

Below is the River Liffey which runs through the centre of Dublin. Gorgeous lamps on the bridge.

For generations young dating Dubliners have been meeting under Clery's clock.  " I'll meet you under the clock" is almost a catchphrase at this stage. It is also on O'Connell Street.

Just down the road from Clery's is the Lir clock. It has a wonderful set of statues atop which depicts the mythical story
 of the Children of Lir who were turned into swans for 900 years.
 

and further down O'Connell Street....the young Dubliners who were successful at the dating game met under this clock and went into "The Happy Ring House" as it is called - McDowells, to buy the happy ring!

Lots of beautiful Georgian doors painted in bright colours.

Another lovely house front, this time a typical B&B in city centre with original wrought iron railings and flower boxes

So I hope you enjoyed your tour of Dublin with me this lovely Friday evening. I wish you all a great weekend. Pam
 

Comments

[margie]

Pam you definitely captured the spirit of Dublin, where there is something for everyone. Great photos. Hugs, Margie.

[sharie]

Thanks for taking the time to post your brilliant photos and I deffo got a taste of Dublin.
We always intended on getting the ferry from Holyhead when we lived on Angelsey and having a trip over to Dublin but never got round to it. Now we have twenty million animals stopping us LOL.

So, thanks for showing what I'm missing. Its a really nice looking city.

[Twiggy]

I blimmin love Dublin. We caught an overnight ferry over to Ireland a few years back. It was during freshers week at University. We were just driving up the side of the Liffey very early in the morning and a gang of students in ball gowns and tuxedos appeared walking over one of the bridges, it was a magical sight.
Your auld dub is looking good :)
twiggy x

[kimme]

Dublin is such a wonderful city!!! I loved your pictures and it was great to see your handsome son and Paul looking so well. :)

I wish I was there with you all!

with love, kimme

[Sandie]

Thank you for the Dublin tour and bringing back memories of a break I had there with my daughter some years ago. We stayed in a B&B not unlike the one in your photo.

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