Showing posts with label North Circular Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Circular Road. Show all posts

Thursday 14 July 2016

Hanlon's pub and Hanlon's Corner


Hanlon's pub gives its name to Hanlon's Corner at the top of Prussia Street. It's an old Dublin landmark; the bar features in an early chapter of Another Case in Cowtown.

Friday 17 April 2015

Brendan Behan's Cowtown

You don't come across many films showing the massive old cattle market in Stoneybatter, aka "Cowtown". But you do get glimpses of it (around the 23-minute mark) in this documentary called "Brendan Behan's Dublin".

Saturday 28 February 2015

Drovers and drivers on the North Circular

Here's an old photo of a herd of cattle  on the North Circular Road in Dublin. Yeah, we really did have regular cattle drives up and down those streets back then. Not exactly John Ford or John Wayne, maybe, but just as "awesome" in their own little way...