URBAN EXPRESSION AND DEPRESSION
Street Photography That Highlights Urban Life
AS SEEN ON MANOR STREET
If you say that the writing is on the wall, you mean that there are clear signs that a situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant. However, I have decided to be optimistic, how about you?
THE STONEYBATTER AREA OF DUBLIN JUNE 2022
At its peak in the 1950s the Dublin Cattle Market, located on Prussia Street in Stoneybatter (nicknamed ‘Cowtown’), was the largest weekly livestock sale in Europe.
I though that the Stoneybatter three day festival was due to begin on the 7th but I made a mistake as it is not due to begin until the 17th June 2022.
Apart from the striking artisan dwellings, the area is also known for the prominent Viking street names. For example, there is Viking Road, Olaf Road, Thor Place, Sitric Road, Norseman Place, Ard Ri Road, Malachi Road, Ostman Place, Ivar Street, Sigurd Road and Harold Road. At the time of the Norman invasion, the Vikings, Ostmen or Austmenn (men of the East) as they called themselves, were exiled to the north of the Liffey where they founded the hamlet of Ostmenstown later to become Oxmantown.
In recent years the area has become known as an example of an area undergoing gentrification.
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