Writers’ Block
Lavender’s Blue, 2015, “It’s a permanent film set, a black and white photograph, a frozen moment in the decline of the Ascendancy – squares of cobwebbed glass blind to the 21st century.”
Christopher Hussey, Country Life, 1939, “There can be few streets in any city in Europe of such surpassing quality in such a state of decrepitude.”
Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660 to 1860 The Shaping of the City, 1970, “Of so palatial a cast that one easily understands how it remained the most fashionable street in Dublin till the Union, long after many rival centres of social attraction had been created.”
James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914, “The gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roistered.”
