Ooooooo! I saw the groudworks for this starting up back on 9 August - moar bridges for Dublin! 🥳

"Work has begun on a new walking, wheeling, and cycling bridge over the River Liffey - here's what it will look like"

https://www.thejournal.ie/new-pedestrian-bridge-river-liffey-dublin-6860758-Oct2025/

via @TheJournal

#Rothar #MastoDaoine #Dublin #Liffey #PhoenixPark #Bridges #ActiveTravel #Walking #Wheeling #Cycling #BikeTooter

“One peculiar sore point in the past” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939)

At the Finnegan's Wake reading group in Basel this evening, we discussed a phrase that is unusually simple for James Joyce's 1939 novel: "return to one peculiar sore point in the past". First, we saw this "sore point" as birth, but later, one participant suggested seeing it as Adam and

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The original site of the foundry became the Phoenix Park in 1891, with the aim of providing a recreational space for the people lving in the crowded tenements of the Cowcaddens area of the city. The park was lost when the M8 motorway was built in the 1970s.

#glasgow #maryhill #murals #glasgowhistory #glasgowmurals #streetart #phoenix #phoenixpark

A Phoenix rising from the flames on the side of Maryhill Community Central Hall in Glasgow. This mural commemorates the Phoenix Ironworks, which was established at 52 Queen Street by Thomas Edington in 1797. It later moved to Garscube Road near the Central Hall, where they specialised in making ornamental ironwork.

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The stump of a 225 year old tree in Phoenix Park, with key dates marked on its rings.

#Dublin #PhoenixPark #TreeStump #history

View from breakfast table at Farmleigh in #PhoenixPark
Mental health boost spending a bit of time with the deer in the Park. #PhoenixPark #WinterLight #Dublin #Deer #Trees #Mastodaoine