people are baring their hearts up on stage like literally ripping their flesh open and showing your their beating hearts (aka performing live music) and you’re chatting??? OVER THE MUSIC???
lived in dublin for 4 months in 2022!!
-get pastries at bread 41
-books upstairs and hodges figgis for bookshops (get the toastie in the cafe inside books upstairs)
-if you like irish lit, the museum of literature is well-curated; james joyce museum in dun laoghaire is in the martello tower from the beginning of ulysses (run by the sweetest elderly volunteers and has a gorgeous view up top)
-phoenix park is huge and gorgeous!!
-grogan’s is a great/classic pub
-workman’s and fibber magee’s usually have a gig on, good for a dance or two
-a 2am slice of difontaine’s pizza after a workman’s night out… heaven! if you want to get out of dublin, 20ish minutes on the DART to howth (gorgeous cliff walk/hike, fish & chips) or dun laoghaire (for a swim at forty foot) is a great change of pace!!
of course I read my lovely genius friend’s senior thesis last year, but I had only read one of the central texts — getting around to reading the other two and then going back to her thesis will be all the more rewarding and satisfying :-)
