Description: The skies above Dublin were beautiful.

Description: Dublin Bay is a delta shaped inlet of the Irish Sea off the east coast of Ireland. The bay is approx. 10 km in width at it’s north-south base and 7 km in length to it’s apex at the centre of the city of Dublin, stretching from Howth Head in the north to Dalkey Point (at Dún Laoghaire) in the south.

– Excerpt from thisarticle from Wikipedia.

Description: Seapoint is a small seafront area between Blackrock and Monkstown in Dublin in the Dún Laoghaire local authority area. It is best known for its beach and bathing areas, beside a Martello Tower on the Dublin Bay seashore.

– Text excerpt from Wikipedia article.

The encierro is alot of fun, thats for sure. But an encierro with rasher sang-iches as a prize? Only the Irish can do it with that much style. I liked the guy with the boina at the start.

Find out more about the video here.

Location: Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin, Ireland
Description: This is a photograph of Arbour Hill Prison, Stonybatter.

The smallest of Dublin’s Victorian prisons, Arbour Hill Prison was designed in 1835 by Jacob Owen and later rebuilt in 1845 by Sir Joshua Webb.

A tripartite façade – the central entrance block is linked by screen walls to the chapel and to the govenor’s house. Of these structures the most interesting is the chapel. The chapel has an elaborate cruciform interior and roof, and stained glass by the Harry Clarke Studios behind the altar.

The church has an unusual entrance porch with stairs leading to twin galleries for visitors in the nave and transept. This feature is copied from the National Scotch Church, Bow Street, London designed by Robert Wallace. Also an unusal feature is the celtic round tower which erupts from a rectangular base.

– from Archiseek.com

I liked this photograph, a picture of a young Iraqi man making Iraqi flags, wearing an Irish soccer jersey.

From the Boston Globe Big Picture photograph story, “Iraq takes a step toward sovereignty”.

An Iraqi man sits at a sewing machine as he assembles an Iraqi flag at his shop in central Baghdad on June 27, 2009. The flag maker says he has been busy to the run up to the withdrawal of US forces from urban areas of Iraq on June 30 handing security over to the Iraqi forces.

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