George’s Street Arcade like a dock in the rain
Where earrings wait sailor’s daughter
or the shiny rainbow couple under the gaslight
– Arjuna Cecchetti
My mind turns to George’s Street Arcade
where old dreams and friendships were made.
– Karen J McDonnell
-poem above and three photos below by Damien Donnelly
G is for Glasnevin, its graves of granite glory,
A gargle in the Gravediggers will give you grub and story.
– Catherine Ann Cullen
G is for Graduates Memorial Building
Home of the Hist the Phil and the Theo
And ideas that seeped through Front Gate.
– Marie Studer
On Grafton Street where Glen Hansard busked and where Kavanagh’s old ghosts still meet,
also, for the glorious Gaiety Theatre, grand dame of South King Street.
– Mary B Shannon
G is for Grangegorman, a campus for the city,
Where once stood an asylum that was gloomy, grey and gritty.
– Catherine Ann Cullen
G is good for Guinness, at old St James’s Gate,
A glass was once medicinal; the Storehouse view is great.
– Catherine Ann Cullen
Guinness Storehouse
We walk through the story of Guinness –
layers of froth and richest darkness.
– Karen S Davies
G’s for Guinness Storehouse and for its rooftop Gravity Bar, for Brendan Gleeson’s ‘Pint of Plain’ – O’Brien’s favourite jar.
– Mary B Shannon
