Dublin

The Hugh Lane is a nice little gallery and houses Francis Bacon's relocated studio in a sort of weird artquarium. It's at the top of O'Connell street, so not that convenient to many good pubs

I mean you can also just walk around Dublin randomly all day — it’s great and will warrant many pints

Thanks NN – it's going in the notebook. and yes I suspect there will be random wandering. both before and after the pub. when the wandering will be more random.

and of course, anyone who fancies a pint shd apply below. I know my way to the bar and am able to converse superficially and with an air of entirely spurious certainty on a number of topics.

chester beatty library is great, actually. chalk that one in.

great. that does sound up my street.

fair warning i might be there for some of the pints so

yes, i mean that seems splendid but de gustibus non est disputandum &c

if theres a precursor to english that nobody speaks anymore but to demonstrate the wealth necessary to send their kids to learn it, twont be latin buck

peeved that I can't be there for Fizzles & darragh in conversation owing to being 8 time zones away

tbf i had to check it on google. i put est at the end.

silby that’s a pretty poor show imo. i mean come on shake a leg etc.

Aer Lingus goes from here to there nonstop once a day but I'd be late

actually that's a pretty affordable fight actually if actually booked ahead, I practically can't afford not to visit Dublin

actually actually actually ffs

every other day actually, must be just the one plane

Consider pints in The Swan. All other decent pubs in D2 are overfull in December.

i think as you say silby it’s practically uneconomical for you not to go next time. as your accountant etc.

and yes, thanks facepalms - i’m resolved to it being a week before christmas in dublin and am girded to experience revelry at close quarters but it’s good to have an alternative bolthole if it becomes too much.

i was in fact thinking of drinking in a pub mainly.

Good man there.

The Swan is a good shout tbf

last chance

no agenda as yet, abu hamza may come up idk

in the swan. good shout everyone. was standing room only with some intercultural barstool #bantz. shrill english woman accused a toothless miserable toper at the bar of stealing her barstool and said she’d complain the barman. he suggested she could complain to whoever she wanted and that the barman was right there and suggested her sort were fucking bastards to no one in particular after she’d gone back to complain to her friends.

now have barstool.

by god its already a hit

Fizzles, get a spice bag!

juan de lads

batter sausage or gtf

and some curry chips

hot whiskies all round. this is the stuff.

Innumerable persons with whom I had conversed had represented to me that spiritous liquors and intoxicants generally had an adverse effect on the senses and body and that those who became addicted to stimulants in youth were unhappy throughout their lives and met with death at the end by a drunkard's fall, expiring ingloriously at the stair-bottom in a welter of blood and puke.

Such reasoning only appears to hold water on occasion because there is strength in numbers. Don't believe their lies. The crowd is untruth.

you've had the pints etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Darragh_MacAuley

fizzles is a pintman now

fizzles losty

cracking night.

turns out mixtures of spirits and beer is good for you. who knew.

me

insider knowledge.

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cobblestone fyi

this is actually bollocks now tbh

stoneybatter is the new d4

thank god that's over.

What happened to mixtures of spirits and beer being good for you?

turns out not

should’ve got a spice bag

this didnt feel heavy heavy at the time but i am fierce glad i had set up a self-kindness day today

the verdict is that dublin is a good pub town iirc nb for obv reasons my ability to rc is vmiq

i felt extraordinarily tired all day. second visit to the really excellent chester beatty library and then watched leinster bamboozle a leaden-footed bath in the rugby, a game in which the weather turned from mild and wet into fucking freezing and wet.

now down in donabate with a dog, a cat and a fire, so pretty happy.

aviva is one of those structures that seema to amplify bad weather, the cold in particular imo

i thought you were kipping on the south coast!

on the coast south of dublin.

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dunno if this will work but while watching a good programme on rte on the abovementioned chester beatty library they made mention of this scandal: search for "the caretaker"

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/

it’s an interesting documentary. several good anecdotal scenes - the quite congenial sounding interrogation at Dublin airport for instance.

that interview with the academic who sent the reference to the judge is bizarre. You know the people of Dublin might not be in a position to properly appreciate documents of that sort, right? best sell them on the private market where they can be better appreciated.

I would like to have known what the change in the culture of trust involves. As someone says, the position of cataloguing represents an enormous amount of trust. You get to say what does and doesn’t exist. I will ask a librarian friend how they manage it.

it would have been interesting to know more about the timeline of events and decisions James made but i guess without his participation that’s difficult.

good documentary strand generally that as well.

Me and my wife are planning of possibly visiting Dublin in the first week of July... Neither of us have ever been Dublin, so any tips on what's happening there in July, and what sites/places to visit in general, are welcome.

We haven't a book a hotel yet or anything, so I'd also appreciate recommendations on where to stay. We can afford a hotel but nothing too pricey or fancy.