I don't know, perhaps you wish to spread the word about the postcard collection?
I'm also extra-happy you, of all people., liked these images: how big is the difference between these postcards, your childhood memories, and what happens today?
A technicolour nostalgia trip, though the postcards are a smidgen before my time. My first memories are of mid-80's Dublin, me being part of the late 70's Irish baby boom. (Aside: births plummeted thereafter until the mid-90's and only returned to the same levels in the time of the Great Financial Crisis thirty years after my generation. Since then they have been in free-fall once again.)
Those old cars! There is obviously a big difference today, city planning means there are only buses, trams, and taxis on O'Connell street now and I think it has lost much of its prestige with iconic stores, cinemas, etc. closing. But plus ça change, as many fine period buildings were lost in the 60's and 70's in the rush to modernity with McDonalds and glass office-building fronts. Of course much of the street facade was also damaged and rebuilt after the 1916 revolutionary uprising and subsequent civil war.
The poverty and deprivation of the 70's and earlier has been decidedly overcome but there are new challenges facing Dublin today. It feels over-priced, over-populated, multi-culti, touristic, at times struggling to authentically re-identify itself in a globalised world. Of course, I am now a long-time emigrant reporting from the outside. (Aside: Irish population growth (~33%) and immigration is unparalleled in Europe in the 21st century.
Anyhow, the sunsets can still be glorious, pubs (though eye-wateringly expensive) are still great fun, and most importantly, the people are still open, friendly and always ready for a chat. Looking forward to postcards of the wild Atlantic west!
The worst aspect of Dublin were really these super-ugly, post-1990s glass front towers. There's nothing that tells the visitor--or local--that these things are located in a specific time or place, it's a global amalgam (of a specific 5th Avenue, mid-town Manhattan, "Wall Street"-the-movie kind).
Their "old" songs are beautiful, and they are spot-on because they haven't (yet) sold out and were singing about the miseries that befell their country for centuries.
Their new stuff, well, that's a quite different thing altogether.
Beautiful. Thank you. I’m not a big city person so I’m looking forward to pictures of the countryside
No worries, I'll put them up soon!
How do I give extra likes!?
I don't know, perhaps you wish to spread the word about the postcard collection?
I'm also extra-happy you, of all people., liked these images: how big is the difference between these postcards, your childhood memories, and what happens today?
A technicolour nostalgia trip, though the postcards are a smidgen before my time. My first memories are of mid-80's Dublin, me being part of the late 70's Irish baby boom. (Aside: births plummeted thereafter until the mid-90's and only returned to the same levels in the time of the Great Financial Crisis thirty years after my generation. Since then they have been in free-fall once again.)
Those old cars! There is obviously a big difference today, city planning means there are only buses, trams, and taxis on O'Connell street now and I think it has lost much of its prestige with iconic stores, cinemas, etc. closing. But plus ça change, as many fine period buildings were lost in the 60's and 70's in the rush to modernity with McDonalds and glass office-building fronts. Of course much of the street facade was also damaged and rebuilt after the 1916 revolutionary uprising and subsequent civil war.
The poverty and deprivation of the 70's and earlier has been decidedly overcome but there are new challenges facing Dublin today. It feels over-priced, over-populated, multi-culti, touristic, at times struggling to authentically re-identify itself in a globalised world. Of course, I am now a long-time emigrant reporting from the outside. (Aside: Irish population growth (~33%) and immigration is unparalleled in Europe in the 21st century.
Anyhow, the sunsets can still be glorious, pubs (though eye-wateringly expensive) are still great fun, and most importantly, the people are still open, friendly and always ready for a chat. Looking forward to postcards of the wild Atlantic west!
The worst aspect of Dublin were really these super-ugly, post-1990s glass front towers. There's nothing that tells the visitor--or local--that these things are located in a specific time or place, it's a global amalgam (of a specific 5th Avenue, mid-town Manhattan, "Wall Street"-the-movie kind).
I hear you about Bono but Sunday Bloody Sunday is still a bloody great song.
Their "old" songs are beautiful, and they are spot-on because they haven't (yet) sold out and were singing about the miseries that befell their country for centuries.
Their new stuff, well, that's a quite different thing altogether.