This year, because of the cost of accommodation coupled with the lack of suitable accommodations, my plan to visit and photograph the cities and larger towns in Ireland had to be limited. Because I had booked two years in advance I have managed to spend four days in Cork city and I might visit again in August as I have already booked a room for a week in August.
I am going to provide much information about Douglas over the next few weeks so I will start with demographics.
In the 2011 census, the percentage of Irish nationals living in Douglas was 88.8%. UK nationals accounted for 1.7%; Polish nationals 3.2%; Lithuanians 0.6%; other EU nationals 2.1%; other nationals 2.9%; and 0.7% did not state their nationality.
In the 2016 census, 78.6% of residents of the Douglas electoral division identified as Catholic, 8% were members of other religions, 12% had no religion and less than 1% did not state a religion. In the same census, 86.2% of electoral division residents identified as white Irish, 8.3% were other whites, 1% were black, 1.7% Asian or Asian Irish, 1.4% were of other ethnicities, and 1% did not state an ethnicity.
TWO VISITS TO DOUGLAS VILLAGE COMMUNITY PARK MAY 2022 AND AUGUST 2021
Amenities and green-spaces in the area include Douglas Community Park (a 5-acre park close to the centre of Douglas which includes a playground), and Ballybrack Woods (a wooded area south of Douglas village which is known locally as ‘Mangala’, ‘Mangola’, or ‘Mangla’.
In 2018 I attempted to walk to Douglas Village and went astray and then because of heavy rain I decided to return to the city centre by bus.
In 2021 because of Covid-19 restrictions public transport was not good but after I visited Finbarr’s Cemetery I waited a hour for a bus back to the city centre and when I boarded the bus the driver was interested in my camera and suggested that I should visit Douglas and assured me that there would be no problem getting a bus back to the city centre from Douglas Shopping Centre.
In August 2021 my camera overheated such an extent that it shut-down. Also, earlier in the day the 70-200 lens became detached from the camera body and as a result suffered some physical damage making auto-focus unreliable. The photographs from the visit were so under exposed that I decided not to use them but I recently purchased DX0 PureRawII and I pre-processed. Much to my surprise the resulting images were usable but a lot of time and effort was required.
I visited Douglas for the second time in May 2022 but as I was on my way the Passage I did not stay long. In 2022 I used adapted sigma 24-105mm lens which may not be as good as the Sony 70-200 but it was much more practical for street photography,
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