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“Night Zeppelin” sounds way cooler than “Night Bus”

Posted in Miscellaneous, Photography, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »

At home to UCD last Thursday night and I get a phone call half an hour before kick off from a good mate of mine, a through and through Rovers man (I only hold it against him on match days.) I thought there was something wrong, knowing he should be on his way to the Bray game but luckily, no, he just wanted to tell me about the below; spotted on the old Canada Life building on Stephen’s Green, a brilliant piece… Props to the Dunster lad!

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This would actually look amazing... (Image copyleft hXci)

All I really know about Zeppelins is that they have a propensity to explode spectacularly and that there was one in an Indiana Jones film but have to admit, the thoughts of getting one out to a game in UCD would make a normally horrible evening a little more bearable. Plus, “Night Zeppelin” sounds way cooler than “Night Bus.” If only…

Better than it lying idle! (Image copyleft hXci)

Anyways, to whoever put the planning application up, I salute you. You brightened up my evening!

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“Arrah, sure ’tis great for the tourism”

Posted in Photography, Politics, tagged , , , on May 19, 2011| 4 Comments »

It really seemed to be one of those catchphrases in the run up to the visit. The visit would lead to euro notes growing on trees and coins spewing out tourists arses. Well, having had an English tourist sleeping on my couch for the last few days, I can tell you that the QEII visit was far from “great for tourism.” While he got some cracking shots of Dublin City’s landmarks, most were marred with lines of luminous jackets in front. He got little sleep due to the incessant buzz of the Garda helicopter hovering low across the city, awoken early by Garda spotters / snipers taking postion on the roof above our living room window, and found the welcoming atmosphere of Dublin City somewhat dampened by the presence of 8, 000 Gardai, pockets brimming with overtime cash.

I could bore you with stories of how it took me two hours to get from one side of O’Connell Street to the other, or of getting stopped and searched twice within the space of a minute, or of my flatmate being refused entry to our street, but as they say, a picture paints a thousand words. Cheers to, again, English tourist Alex S for all the snaps.

The view from the window.

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“Welcome Home Brother”

Posted in Photography on May 19, 2011| 2 Comments »

Two friendly lads from the African Students Association of Ireland (ASAI) were giving out leaflets and holding this (fantastic) banner outside the GPO earlier today. I had to jump off my bus a stop early to take a snap.

GPO. 19 May 2011. Picture - Jay Carax

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Six years later

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on April 28, 2011| 1 Comment »

For the week that’s in it. A great snap of Free State soldiers in Dublin in 1922 during the Civil War.

The flyposter beside them reads:

EASTER WEEK REPEATS ITSELF
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THE IRA STILL DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC.

Notice the soldier’s sword as well.

© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

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A nice day in Dublin.

Posted in Photography on April 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Record Store Day was a great success. The photos below come from Neil Frazer, and go to prove everyone should have at least one friend who is well able to use a camera. The highlight of the day was undoubtedly Lykke Li at Tower Records, though Neil missed this owing to sitting on a bus.


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New DCC digitial collections

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on April 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Continuing in their excellent series of digital collections on different aspects of Dublin history, the council has uploaded two sets on ‘Commercial Dublin‘ and ‘Dublin Shops and Shopping‘. Do have a look.

Bank of Ireland, Baggot Street. (DCC)

Construction of Central Bank. (DCC)

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A few random snaps

Posted in Photography, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2011| 2 Comments »

Still without my camera, Canon have stolen it from me and holding it for a ransom I just can’t afford right now. So the camera on the phone it is, I’ve started taking pictures, and a simple thing like not actually having a camera at the moment isn’t going to stop me.

Good yokes are back in town

These Philo posters have been appearing all over town recently, someone said they had something to do with Whelans? Either way, the above gave me and Donal a laugh after our recent Crackbird feast.

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The Bleeding Horse

Posted in Dublin History, Music, Photography on April 7, 2011| 14 Comments »

A couple of nice snaps of The Bleeding Horse public house on Camden Street.

The pub, which dates back to 1649, claims to be the second oldest pub in Dublin.

There are many stories on how the tavern got its name. The most frequent one told is that during The Battle of Rathmines (1649), Cromwellian forces brought their wounded horses to the thatched, timber inn that stood here.

From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, it was called The Falcon Inn.

Charlotte Street, to the left of The Bleeding Horse, was demolished in 1992. I plan to write an article on this disappeared  street in the near future.

The Bleeding Horse (1950s)

The Falcon Inn (1972) Credit - Hohenloh

The Falcoln Inn (1972) Credit - Dublin City Council

The Falcon Inn (1990) Credit - Dublin City Council

The Bleeding Horse (2010) Credit - nycbrent

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Who listens to the little guy?

Posted in Photography, Social History, Street Art, tagged , , , , on April 5, 2011| 3 Comments »

What is it with me and cameras? I just have no luck with them; this is my fourth camera to give up on me in around eight years. I still hold out hope, I will get my little G9 fixed, I’ve only started to get used to it and have only started taking pictures I’m proud of. This rant I hear you ask, what is it about? Well, its a precursor and an apology for the quality of the below pictures, but I couldn’t help but take them and share them.

Hungover cycles often provide great inspiration, and Sunday’s was no different, and rewarding also, having come across the below piece down the (Luas) tracks. Its probably been around a while, but this is the first time I’ve ventured down this far since before the Chrimbo.

Who listens? (1)

Who Listens? (2)

Back in the day, you were born with
original sin, now its original debt.
Every man, woman and child in this
country are footin’ the bill for a
load of empty buildings. If it was
France, there’d be bleedin’ murder.

Who Listens? (3)

Where’s my Nama? You know what I
mean? I worked on the sites round
here and when I got laid off I
still had to pay me mortgage every
month. But we’re bailing these boys
(out I?) don’t get it.

Who Listens? (4)

The middle to the end of the
sixties saw the dyin’ end of the
docks. It just went slowly down.
If any of the old Dockers came
back today and looked down from
Butt Bridge, they’d call you a liar,
they’d go “that’s not where I worked.”

Who Listens? (5)

There’s something Flann O’Brien-esque about the writing style, god knows what the man would have said if he saw the state of the country now. Either way, its a good summation of what has happened the old docklands; there is or, was a social history there that has been all but completely wiped out in order to pave way for the IFSC, the area that most said at the time  ” is a grand representation of the Celtic Tiger, sure isn’t it great the money we have now for all these shiny buildings.” Its a shocking pity that most of them are now empty.

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Flypostering; a Dublin tradition

Posted in Dublin History, Photography on April 5, 2011| 2 Comments »

Fantastic picture from August 1923 showing a young man sticking up poster proclaiming that De Valera has been arrested over old election posters asking people to vote for him.

© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

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2. GRIFT; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)

Posted in Photography, Street Art on March 26, 2011| 4 Comments »

Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.

The second featured graffiti artist is GRIFT who was also a member of the RCS (RadiCalS) and ICN (InCogNito) crews.

(c) Jay Carax (Sandyford)

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax (Stillorgan Dual Carriageway)

(c) Jay Carax

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1. DROP; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)

Posted in Photography on March 24, 2011| 3 Comments »

Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.

The first featured graffiti artist is DROP who was a member of the RCS (RadiCalS) and ICN (InCogNito) crews along with GRIFT and others.

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

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