*tremble*
Bachelor’s Way, Dublin 1
By photographer Andy Sheridan (more of his laneway pics at link below) writes:
This laneway, linking Bachelor’s Walk with Middle Abbey Street, Is known as Bachelor’s Way.
In various old maps I have also seen it called Williams Lane and also Williams Row.
It is by Williams Row that it gets a brief mention in Joyce’s Ulysses): ‘Mr Dedalus, tugging a long moustache, came round from Williams’s row. He halted near his daughter.’
Far from such literary heights, it’s a laneway all too often occupied by junkies and smells too much like a sewer for my liking. It’s not one that I care to venture down very often…
Dublin’s scariest thoroughfare?
Only YOU can decide.
Bachelor’s Way (Andy Sheridan)
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Hangman’s lane in Smithfield was the commute for you-know-who to his workplace in the present Square.
Became corrupted to Hammond Lane.
The Irish translation in street sign “Lana an Criochaire” has endured.
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Hangman’s lane in Smithfield was the commute for you-know-who to his workplace in the present Square.
Became corrupted to Hammond Lane.
The Irish translation in the street sign “Lana an Criochaire” has endured.
If you’re looking for a piece of Dublin’s ‘dirty old town’. This is it! Bachelors Way has escaped rampant gentrification and exists as a time capsule of contemporary ‘heroin chic’. Here you will find fiercely independent single men finding relief in every way imaginable without any oversight or repercussions. Park your car at your own risk and watch out for hypodermic needles! Soak it up while you can, this area will soon be subject to ‘urban regeneration’ as funds are diverted from the postponed College Green plaza to a soon-to-be pedestrianised Liffey Street plan. Some would say it is long overdue, others oppose all change .,.
Well-ventured in my day as it was the short cut from my bus drop-off on Bachelor’s Walk to Easons, Chapters, The Oval and GPO Arcade – where I seemed to make a bee-line for as a young Hoop. It stank and still does of urine and rotting food, and belts out nauseating grease-infused emissions from the back of the burger joints on that first block of O’Connell St. It was and is frequented by drug-users and bolting shop-lifters from Penneys. The dip in the middle made for a massive puddle that would wreck a desert boot permanently. It hasn’t changed one bit and it’s still a kip. If it was to be closed off there would probably be some Facebook group set up to save it from extinction.
ever a Flowing Tide drinker, hoop?
For sure. No finer spot for a Sat afternoon one. Downstairs was an under-age favourite of course – Neptune I think it was called.
yeah…same
still fond of the Flowing Tide though
love the Oval
+1
Foggy Dew still my favourite though :)
I used to do the same. Do you remember sounds and around and the Pierrot club? Sean O’Casey’s was a good spot for an underage pint as was the plough
Sounds Around was the best -I could only afford the badges though. Pierrot for a game of pool. O’Casey’s was my college haunt – lovely pints until the ballad group and the townies arrived in at 9pm and you were stranded in a chorus of Doobalin in de rare oul times.
ha! the badges! Do kids still buy badges? we used to get them for favourite bands etc. O Casey’s was a bit of a provo pub as far as I remember.
Dublin has changed a lot. Mostly for the better it has to be said, but I do feel kids don’t have the same freedom or individuality any more. Music is definitely gone to shyte anyway. It’s been marketed to the point of irrelevance.
Dublin’s scariest thoroughfare was any of the lanes in Darndale back in the day, IMO.
Any entrance way to a church or religious facility,as a kid my mum used grab my hand tightly and rush past convents and churches.We rarely attended anything ‘religious’ but if forced to she got us out ASAP,she considered churches and Catholics institutions the most dangerous and unsafe places for kids in Ireland.
There is no dank and shady crime-infested brick-lined alley stinking of urine and blood and the death of hope as terrifying as trying to drive on any of the roads through Dublin.
Its like the back alley were Batman lost his parents.
…sounds like one for Sibling…Dublin was much scarier long ago…Billy the Bowl in Stoneybatter?
[i]”Far from such literary heights, it’s a laneway all too often occupied by junkies and smells too much like a sewer for my liking.”[/i]
Should we stop having sympathy for homeless people as soon as they use herion or do they need to be habitual user before we can dehumanize them?
Mr Dedalus was being stopped by his daughter because she wanted to get some money for him for food before he drank it all.
“Wait awhile, Mr Dedalus said threateningly. You’re like the rest of
them, are you? An insolent pack of little bitches since your poor mother died.
But wait awhile. You’ll all get a short shrift and a long day from me. Low
blackguardism! I’m going to get rid of you”
Plenty of addiction and dehumanisation in 1904 too…