Location: Mount Prospect Avenue/James Larkin Road, Clontarf East, Dublin.
Rebecca Low Biography: “I am a 27-year-old Doctor who works in the Mater Hospital. I paint as a hobby and have found it to be extremely therapeutic in the past few months. I studied art to leaving certificate level”
Today was a Bank Holiday here in Ireland and at about 7am I was awakened by an amazing amount of noise due to a sporting event on the street where I live and I had np option but to leave my apartment so I decided to visit St Anne’s Park. As I left my apartment the weather was beautiful but when I arrived in St Anne’s there was a light shower of rain and I had to seek shelter for about fifteen minutes. Two hours later there was a torrential downpour that caused flooding in the park.
Mount Prospect Avenue is a prestigious residential street in Clontarf, Dublin 3. It is located just a short walk from the seafront and St Anne’s Park, and is home to some of the most desirable properties in the area.
The avenue was originally developed in the 1860s, and many of the houses on the street are large, period properties. There are also a number of newer apartments and townhouses on the avenue.
Mount Prospect Avenue is well-served by public transport, with buses running regularly to and from Dublin City Centre.
Note: The event that I mentioned by the Inner City Running Club who organised a 10k & 21k run on August 6, 2023, at 9am. The starting point is Henrietta Flats immediately across the street from my bedroom. The entry fee was €35 and the The event was sold out.
I photographed this using a Sony FX30 combined with a Sony 90mm G lens. The FX30 is a video-first camera and does not have a shutter and while I do like the still images that it produces they are close to unusable if there is any movement within the frame and that means that at least 20% of my photographs need to be deleted when I return home.
Éamonn O’Doherty (1939 – 4 August 2011) was an Irish sculptor, painter, printmaker, photographer and lecturer.He was best known for his sculptures in public places. He was born and raised in Derry, and died, aged 72, in Dublin.
Well known sculptures by Éamonn O’Doherty include the Quincentennial Sculpture on Eyre Square in Galway and the Anna Livia monument, in 2011 moved to the Croppies’ Acre Memorial Park, in Dublin.
O’Doherty also won awards for his paintings, amongst other on the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. An exhibition of his photographs from the collection of the Irish Traditional Music Archive toured around the United States.
In the summer of 1966, O’Doherty was the first manager of Sweeney’s Men and had painted the band’s logo on the front of their van, from a drawing by Johnny Moynihan. According to Andy Irvine, O’Doherty was quite adept at playing the flute. He had also toured with Irvine in Denmark in the early part of 1966.
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