streetscape

For while in the 00s, I shared the rental of a house in Marino, D3. I was only up in Dublin for 2 nights a week and I could have endured 5 hours a day on the bus commuting from home. But two younger workers at the coal-face of science made me an offer I couldn't refuse on the bed-nights. I also enrolled in drumming workshops in the evening after work. Tuesday "Djembe, dance and body-percussion" with Sinead "sensei" O'Brien; Wednesday "MaSamba" with Simeon Smith. When I got 'home' at 21°°hrs, I was ready for bed. But the lads insisted that we repair to Gaffney's Bar in Fairview and skull pints. I was shattered when I finally got HOME; and couldn't look alcohol in the face . . . until next Tuesday.In the 1930s, Gaffney's was in the same place and a little further along Fairview Strand was "Daly Bros. shop in Fairview Dublin", G. & T. Crampton Photographs, UCD Digital Library. Those premises are now Four Star Pizza; the facade is significantly less 'handsome"; and the range of…