NORTH OF THE RIVER AS EXPERIENCED BY THE URBAN CARTOGRAPHER

Original Images By William Murphy

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ANOTHER VISIT TO COKE LANE

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SMITHFIELD AREA OF DUBLIN

I have no idea as to why it is named Coke Lane but about ten years ago a gentleman came out of a doorway on this street/laneway and told me to go back to America and to stop taking photographs that disrespected the people of Ireland. I decided that it was best to keep my mouth shut and to move on and to return at a later date. Since then I visit on a regular basis but not much has changed over the years.

I am frequently mistaken as being American and have never worked out why.

DID SOMEONE USE LEGO BRICKS TO REPAIR A WALL OR WAS IT A FORM OF URBAN ART

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PHOTOGRAPHED USING A SONY NEX-5 IN FEBRUARY 2012

I photographed this in Temple Bar in February 2012 using a Sony NEX-5 camera and the images were not great nevertheless I decided to publish the three photographs today [4 January 2024].

THIS IS EARL PLACE BEHIND CLERYS REF-225673-1

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THIS MAY BE UNFAMILIAR TO THE MAJORITY OF DUBLINERS

I always thought that it was Clerys rather than Clerys. It should be mentioned that the reopening of the iconic building with retail stores and rooftop hospitality facilities is was to happen before Christmas and while the photographs presented here date from August I visited Earl Place a few days ago and nothing has changed. It has been reported that the grand opening is delayed because of a court case over the alleged wrongful termination of a lease by a clothing and fashion company.

Earl Place could best be described as a laneway, passing behind Clerys, connecting North Earl Street to Sackville Place. I could be wrong but the CIE club had an entrance on Earl Place … correct me if you know better.

PLaces can disappear without people being fully aware … Earl Place Market is now being promoted, in advance, as a New pedestrianised street with Food & Beverage offerings.

The Clerys building, which forms part of Clerys Quarter, is located opposite the GPO (one of Ireland’s most famous landmarks) on the corner of O’Connell Street and Sackville Place.

George Bradshaw, Tommy Duffy and Tommy Douglas were all young men who worked for CIE. They were killed by explosions on Sackville Place, off O’Connell Street.

On 1 December 1972, car bombs exploded in Dublin for the first time. The first was outside Liberty Hall on the quays. A short time later there was another on Sackville Place.

It was close to the CIE club on Marlborough Street used by bus workers. George Bradshaw and Tommy Duffy were coming from the club when they were caught by the bomb.

Mr Bradshaw was a bus driver from Fethard in Co Tipperary. The 30-year-old was married with two children, and had only recently moved to Dublin. He had been taking night classes in business studies.

Tommy Duffy, from Castlebar in Co Mayo, was a bus conductor. The 24-year-old was married with one child. His wife Monica was pregnant and was left a widow at the age of 22. Their son Thomas was born four months later in April 1973.

THE BIG HEAD AND A DOG THAT WANTED TO BE MY FRIEND

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TRIBUTE TO LUKE KELLY

The Statue of Luke Kelly is a large marble sculpted head of Irish folk singer Luke Kelly, with metal wire for hair. The statue is located at the north end of Linear Park, near the junction of Sheriff Street Upper and Guild Street, Dublin 1.

At the moment I am experimenting with Video and am having great difficulty when it comes to processing the raw files. Until now the clips produced by the DJI Pocket 3 were were very dull and lacking in colour because I did not realise that as I was using D-Log M color profile. I then discovered that I needed a LUT designed to convert DJI footage shot in DLog-M to Rec. 709 for color grading. I then needed to work out how to colour grade using FinalCut Pro and that was not at all easy (for me at least).

In case your are wondering the abbreviation LUT is an acronym that stands for ‘LookUp Table’, but what, exactly is a LUT? Put simply, a LUT holds a set of defined data in numbers (a mathematical formula), which are ‘looked up’ by the software you’re using to change the input values of colours, saturation, brightness and contrast in the footage from your camera.

The statue, designed by Vera Klute, was unveiled along with another statue of Luke Kelly on South King Street on 30 January 2019 by President Michael D. Higgins.

It was unveiled to mark the 35th anniversary of the death of Kelly on 30 January 1984, after calls to memorialise the singer in his hometown and specifically near where Luke Kelly grew-up on Sheriff Street.

The statue has been vandalised numerous times since it was commissioned. In July 2020, the 7th incident of defacement resulted in a 40-year-old man being charged with vandalism. These repeat incidents have raised questions regarding the statue’s location and accessibility, which have included suggestions to relocate it to a more public area. As far as I am concerned it is best that it remains where it is.

The statue was designed by Vera Klute and is circa 220 cm x 170 cm x 170 cm excluding the stone base. Treated marble was used for the formation of the head while treated metal wire was used to form the hair and beard. The hair is attached through the use of a metal mesh wig while the moustache is made of individual pieces of wire which were drilled into the face of the statue.

An initial model with hair was made in smaller near life sized form. A secondary larger statue was then created from plaster but without hair. This second statue was then used for 3D scanning to create the final larger sized version replicated in marble via a 5-axis cnc milling machine in Italy.

The appearance is based on a distinctive pose of Luke Kelly with his eyes closed while performing and is said to be taken from a still from his performance of Scorn Not His Simplicity on a show hosted by Jim McCann in 1974 called ‘McCann Man’.

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EXPLORING HENRIETTA STREET AND HENRIETTA PLACE

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VIDEO PRODUCED BY DJI POCKET 3

The DJI Pocket 3 arrived this morning and I had some problems setting up … one, unexpected, issue was that my Micro SD cards were two slow. The other issue was that despite selecting English as the default language I was connected to DJI in China. Fortunately I have some friends from China who were able to help.

Henrietta Street (Irish: Sráid Henrietta) is a Dublin street, to the north of Bolton Street on the north side of the city, first laid out and developed by Luke Gardiner during the 1720s. A very wide street relative to streets in other 18th-century cities, it includes a number of very large red-brick city palaces of Georgian design.

For a long time I have wanted to include video in my Photo Diaries and Photo Blogs but while I have investigated many different solutions I could not find a workflow that met all my requirements and then I was contacted and invited to try the new DJI Pocket 3. I was not offered a discounted price. I was however allowed to try the device for a few weeks before I had to return it or pay for it.

The next major problem is that I am in the process of shifting to self hosting and video takes up a lot of space and bandwidth but I think that now have an excellent and inexpensive solution [Note: I was not willing to use YouTube]. As a backup I plan to make some of my videos available via Flickr

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