Christmas 2008
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The River Slaney estuary, around where I grew up in Co. Wexford. It's a beautiful part of the world here, and is a candidate for becoming a Special Area of Conservation, under the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), Annexe 2.
Wikipedia: River Slaney
Slaney by Inland Waterways Association of Ireland
Moon in Conjunction with venus, over Dublin, Ireland, 31st December 2008. Alignment a bit off cos i was screwing around with the camera...
Source of solar energy setting behind user of fossil fuel energy - sun setting behind Poolbeg Generating station, Ringsend Dublin, The Walkers are on Bull Island, in North Dublin.
Variation on a theme...
Discarded door on Dollymount strand, Bull Island, Dublin, two weeks after I first photographed it.
Discarded door on Dollymount strand, Bull Island, Dublin, two weeks after I first photographed it. Here's the other versions of it here and here »
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Jackdaw, corvus mondedula - the smallest crow. Photographed in Clontarf, Dublin.
Urban nature - Brent Light Bellied Brent Goose, branta bernicla, migrates to Ireland every winter from arctic Canada - many of them ending up on Dublin's Bull Island, or in surrounding parks and near busy roads, like these ones on the seafront in Clontarf.
Discarded door on Dollymount strand, Bull Island, Dublin, two weeks after I first photographed it. See the earlier version here »
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
View of the 207m chimney stacks of the gas and oil powered Poolbeg generating station, as seen from from Dollymount strand, Bull Island, Dublin.the small dots in the air to the left of the stacks, near the horizon, are kitesurfers!
The station is due to close in 2010; according to Wikipedia a local councillor wants the chimneys kept and listed, for their iconic addition to Dublin's skyline.
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Abandoned chair on Bull Island, Dublin, camouflaged amongst the marram grass.
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Pigeons mating on the north quay, Dublin.
Custom House at night, Dublin, by architect James Gandon. The building was used to collect custom duties, but by the 20th century it had become a local government building until it was burned down during the War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War.
"There was fifty-seven channels and nothin' on" - Bruce Springsteen
Discarded TV, washed up on the shores of Bull Island.
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Was it washed up like this, or did some enterprising soul put it there, instead of disposing of it properly?
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Discarded door on Dollymount strand, Bull Island, Dublin. I knocked, but there was no on in, and someone had filled the letterbox with sand.
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve in the Northern suburbs of Dublin. It features two golf clubs, and Dollymount beach, used for kitesurfing and other outdoor activities. Wildlife includes seals and bird life.
Young grey seal at Bull Island, Dublin. Usually the seals - common and grey - are pulled up on the sandbanks, but this day there was none to be seen, except for two that appeared i nth water, like big wet dogs, curious about the crazy humans.
Bull Island is a UNESCO protected biosphere reserve. This one had gotten nervous of me and dived into the water, leaving the main group. It soon got courage and reappeared, flopped back up onto the sand again.
Wikipedia: Bull Island »
Ruined 18th-century hunting lodge on Montpellier Hill near Rathfarnham, Dublin, known as The Hellfire Club, where it is alleged that 18th century nobleman practiced satanism. This is one of photographs in my new book, Haunted Dublin.
Haunted Dublin can be ordered from www.blather.net/haunteddublin »
See below for Launch Party plans!
View the Haunted Dublin photograph collection on my main site »
Haunted Dublin: Chilling accounts of the supernatural in the cityOnly €14.99 + P&P!
AVAILABLE NOW!
By Dave Walsh
Introduction by Barry Kavanagh
Paperback: 93 pages, including 40 photographs by Dave Walsh
Published by Nonsuch Ireland
Published October 2008
Haunted Dublin, by author and journalist Dave Walsh, gathers together in one succinct volume, well-known legends with rare and chilling accounts of the supernatural in the city. With poltergeists and apparitions, lore, myth and the downright scary, this fascinating work will delight and unsettle those brave enough to explore this hidden world.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin - connected to various Dublin hauntings, such as that of John McNeill Boyd's faitful dog, and the ghost of Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels. This is one of photographs in my new book, Haunted Dublin.
Haunted Dublin can be ordered from www.blather.net/haunteddublin »
See below for Launch Party plans!
View the Haunted Dublin photograph collection on my main site »
Haunted Dublin: Chilling accounts of the supernatural in the cityOnly €14.99 + P&P!
AVAILABLE NOW!
By Dave Walsh
Introduction by Barry Kavanagh
Paperback: 93 pages, including 40 photographs by Dave Walsh
Published by Nonsuch Ireland
Published October 2008
Haunted Dublin, by author and journalist Dave Walsh, gathers together in one succinct volume, well-known legends with rare and chilling accounts of the supernatural in the city. With poltergeists and apparitions, lore, myth and the downright scary, this fascinating work will delight and unsettle those brave enough to explore this hidden world.
LAUNCH PARTY!
From 6pm on October 30th, Halloween Launch Party at the Dice Bar, Queen St. Dublin 7.Booze, books, costumes and mayhem! Outlandish outfits recommended!
Blather Google Map showing location »
Continue reading "Haunted Dublin: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin" »
Got boxes of my new book delivered earlier - I'll be posting some photos from it up here in the next few days. Haunted can be ordered from www.blather.net/haunteddublin »
See below for Launch Party plans!
View the Haunted Dublin photograph collection on my main site »
Haunted Dublin: Chilling accounts of the supernatural in the cityOnly €14.99 + P&P!
AVAILABLE NOW!
By Dave Walsh
Introduction by Barry Kavanagh
Paperback: 93 pages, including 40 photographs by Dave Walsh
Published by Nonsuch Ireland
Published October 2008
Haunted Dublin, by author and journalist Dave Walsh, gathers together in one succinct volume, well-known legends with rare and chilling accounts of the supernatural in the city. With poltergeists and apparitions, lore, myth and the downright scary, this fascinating work will delight and unsettle those brave enough to explore this hidden world.
LAUNCH PARTY!
From 6pm on October 30th, Halloween Launch Party at the Dice Bar, Queen St. Dublin 7.Booze, books, costumes and mayhem! Outlandish outfits recommended!
Blather Google Map showing location »
Award winning choreographer Jess Curtis performing Noustube, part of Equilibre, naked in a clear cylinder of water at Grand Canal Square during the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Gary Shider AKA Nappy Man AKA Starchild Electric Picnic 2008 playing with George Clinton
Brazilian electro rock band Cansei de Ser Sexy or 'tired of being sexy' at Electric Picnic 2008
Nick Cave's side project Grinderman at Electric Picnic 2008. Stradbally, Laois, Ireland. Grinderman have a more raw, garage band sound than the Bads seeds, of which Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey, and Jim Sclavunos are all members.
Grinderman were one of the highlights of the Electric Picnic - and were very clearly enjoying themselves - there was not of the reserve sometimes apparent during Bad Seeds gig, Cave was very much engaged with the audience, and the crowd were loving it!
Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine at the Electric Arena tent, Electric Picnic 2008, Stradbally, Laois, Ireland. The avant garde indie outfit dropped from view in the early 90s, My Bloody Valentine in 2008 for series of rare appearances - the first in 13th years. More photos of My Bloody Valentine at the Electric Picnic »
MVS's performance was one of the most impressive at the Electric Picnic - just getting a chance to hear them playing is a privilege. Not the most engaging of bands, they tend to keep words to the minimum, and instead opt for creating their 10 minute 'Holocaust' wall of white noise during 'You Made Me Realise' - some fans at earlier gig claimed they'd seen the sound desk hit 132db, higher than the loudest band record by Guinness
Youtube: Holocaust excerpt »
