Kennedy’s Bar, George's Quay, Dublin, Ireland

            Revisiting one of my favourite views of Dublin, though this time focusing on that mural at the corner of Tara Street.

I didn't immediately notice (it was dark...) that the artwork was three-dimensional. As part of his 'Trash Animals' series, Portuguese artist 'Bordalo II' (Artur Bordalo) used waste metal and other items (there's a bike in there) to add texture to the wall before painting the huge squrrel, all to highlight such environmental issues as the decline of Ireland's red squirrel population.

The photo's from October 2017, towards the end of the six months the mural was anticipated to last. However, it remained until mid-2019, when the site was cleared for redevelopment.

According to The Irish Times, J Kennedy’s Bar on George's Quay used to be a "spit and sawdust"-type of establishment popular for "a quiet Friday pint", but look closer: the street level sign names it as 'The Workshop', a reworking of the bar into a gastropub: fewer "yellowing walls and old leather couches", more "slick bar stools and metal pails of chunky chips".  For what it's worth, the paper's review was positive.

To the immediate left is the entrance to Tara Street Station, then a hint of the wrought iron lattice girders of Loopline Bridge (aka the Liffey Viaduct), designed by John Chaloner Smith and built in 1891 to carry the railway across the River Liffey and quayside streets.  Running six metres above street level, it's become a landmark (not invariably considered favourably) even mentioned in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'.

The pyramid-pinnacled towers (seven in total) in the background are the most visible element of the One George's Quay Plaza office complex, built in 2002 and apparently nicknamed 'Canary Dwarf', a reference to Canary Wharf, London's modern financial district – those pyramids are certainly similar to the roof of One Canada Square, the 50-story, 235m-tall 'flagship' building of Canary Wharf.
Though the 13-storey complex is 'only' 59 m tall, at the time of the photo it was the fourth tallest in the otherwise low-rise city (not counting church spires; three in the city are taller).

Taken in: Ireland / Leinster / IFSC (show map)

Taken on: October 3, 2017

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Camera: Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II, f/2.2, 1/25 sec, 12.4mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

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