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A Smoke in Moore Street

            The same day in Dublin but a completely different location and a completely different woman in an exciting vintage hat, lighting a cigarette.Maybe there was some kind of strange Ulysses thing going on…

I was walking down O’Connell street, a few hours after talking to the woman in the Ulysses shop, when I saw a large crowd going down a side street. Intrigued, I decided to follow them. We ended up in another side street, Moore Street, which I’d walked up and down many times before and hadn’t marked out as being anything particular remarkable, apart from being quite good for street photography. Much to my amazement, I discovered that this was the street where the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising had made their last stand, in a series of terrace houses still standing today. 

The Save Moore Street campaign group had saved the houses from demolition and today they were doing a historic walk around the area, with some local dignitaries including singer Imelda May and politician Gerry Adams (not his biggest fan, having lived through the Troubles in the North, though these days he seems to be more interested in posing for selfies than planting bombs). The walk focused on the contribution made by the woman involved at that time, including nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, who had ultimately delivered (under fire) the rebels surrender to the British Army barricade at the top of the street. 

Reenactors dressed in period costume read extracts from the women’s letters, recounting what had happened in this street in 1916 - extremely evocative. This woman was one of the reenactors, having a well-earned fag after delivering one of the powerful speeches. It was an amazing thing to have stumbled upon -  I’ll certainly never look at Moore Street the same way again.

Taken on: October 14, 2023

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Camera: OM Digital Solutions OM-1, f/2.8, 1/125 sec, 17mm (=34mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	OM Digital Solutions OM-1
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.17mm F1.8
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	17mm (35mm equivalent: 34mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.3.1 (Macintosh)
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