North King Street
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Does’nt North King Street look well with all the building work etc ….as opposed to what it was once like with mass dereliction and decay……….The street has been reinstated and there is an air of money, confidence and a contemporary feel to the architecture. The HARP renewal project has worked wonders.
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I thought so too. Still the odd eyesore (the National Wax Museum for one – WHAT was that all about!) and the shameful neglect of Henrietta Street and the corpo flats in the area could do with some attention. Overall this corner of the city is starting to develop to its full potential.
Sadly Parnell Street is not so fortunate. Its looks like a strip of American shopping malls thanks to the ill thought-out Inner Relief route plan. And the latest addition – the Moore St Mall – is no different. Still at least we’ll have another hotel! Thats exactly whats needed. And what beautiful views there’ll be.
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North King Street that famous highway that leads to the architects and engineers of Bolton Street and that once great venue for a session of trad The Four Seasons. Was down Smithfield way over the Christmas the skating square was very popular but way too small for all wishing to skate. Decided on safety grounds to have a few pints in the Cobblestone Bar one of the last session bars in the city – what a pity. Whilst there enjoying the music I thought how ironic that Dublin / Ireland has lost its short lived museum (located in Smithfield) of Irish traditional song and music we seem to be also loosing our bodhran and fiddle players that once played in so many real pubs like The Beal Bocht, The Four Seasons, Teach Thomas, Flannerys, The Meeting Place, Slatterys, Mc Dowells, Neptune Rowing Club and many more. The late great Luke Kelly would surely wonder at Dubliners skating on ice and have a go himself but would then walk the streets in disbelief at the demise of the real trad and ballad session that were once an integral part of so many famous inner city Dublin pubs.
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I agree ……but I think Luke would welcome all the new developments in the city and the skating rink too ………but I’d say he would be greatly dissappointed at the newer generations not knowing the lyrics of the auld ballads and not being able to sing along too in an auld pub trad session, which ye can’t beat. An open fire, pints of Guinness and a music session is one of the pleasures of Irish cultural life.
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Don’t forget that recent Irish musical artists have defined their own role in our nation’s cultural history (U2, Van Morrisson, et cetera).
And the Corrs (face it – they write some “good” songs and can play their instruments) have brought flavours of traditional Irish music worldwide…
In other words, all is not lost, and new Irish traditions are still developing all the time. Although for the record, Britney can go and kiss my ass.
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Confused eh? …one minute we are west Brits, then we’re all for the ‘moderne’ slagging off bog standard ‘Oirish’, then we’re Republican Sinn Fein, then we’re all for the traditions and everything ‘os gaeilge’…………..’but hey,….push forward the threshholds of yer levels of thinking man’……..Open the ‘Doors of Perception’…….everything is not just black and white……….or White and Black………. but indeed a rich composite of diversity………coooooooooooool eh!………….just like a successful city which would contain the old and the new, the quaint and the contemporary …….the foreign and the native…………. just like North King Street now…….begorrah roight!
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