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Trip to Ireland /03

Grafton Street

Rain, then sun, then rain .....

Leila's birthplace. Women used to come to the Rotunda from all over Europe to give birth.

On the top of a double decker bus, heading up Drumcondra.

Having supper after Anna's arrival

Henry Street.
New eight million dollar Millenium Spire in the background. Locals call it the
"stilleto in the ghetto".

Trying on a hat at Cleary's. I bought a suit - Leila's cousing Lisa is getting married.

Beshoff's fish and chips on O'Connell St.

Cleaning out Bridie's house.

Rose and Jim stopped by for tea.

Nelly & Kieran's first apartment on Sion Road. They opened a bakery there.

Seeing Anna off at Dublin airport - farewell "full Irish breakfast" of:
-fried eggs, bacon, sausage, blood sausage, white sausage, fried potatoes, beans, toast --- mmm.

Packing up furniture for shipping.

Movers taking out part of Leila's grandparents' Victorian wardrobe for shipment to Canada. We saved a few nice
pieces of furniture to transplant from Leila's first house to her current one.

We stripped the linoleum off the kitchen floor - there is a nice
original terazzo floor underneath.

Lunch with Ethnia McGee at Patrick Gilbaud's, Dublin's only Michelin two star restaurant.

The day before we left we attended Lisa Woods' wedding. The church is on an airbase. Yes, that's a
propeller - the first transatlantic flight from east to west took off from here.