Locations that feature in the Irish crime series about Stoneybatter PI Moss Reid...
Friday 24 March 2017
The Hungry Tree in the King's Inns
"Inosculation," Wikipedia tells me, "is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together."
Thursday 9 March 2017
The Barbers pub, Grangegorman
A quick update on the pub on the Lower Grangegorman road that I wrote about in 2014, when it was still known as The Grange.
The Infant of Prague, the Lady on the Rock
Next door at 84 Manor Street is a bed and breakfast. Pride of place in the fanlight above its front door is a statue, sometimes illuminated by an electric light. It's an Infant of Prague, also known as a Child of Prague.
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Tuesday 7 March 2017
The magnolias of Manor Street
"When the magnolia begins to blossom." It's almost like one of those much parodied movie moments in which the secret agents exchange their code phrases...
Wednesday 22 February 2017
'Educating Rita', from Zoom to Mooz
Believe it or not, an upmarket new Italian grocer in Stoneybatter called Mooz was once a location for a very famous film from 1983.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
A virtual tour of Walshes pub
Walsh's pub in Stoneybatter (or "Walshes" with an "e" if, like me, you go by the spelling on its splendid stained glass) is a frequent setting in the "Moss Reid" series. The following virtual tour from Google Maps gives a good idea of its interior layout; pity it can't give a flavour of one of the best pints of Guinness in Dublin...
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