Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy

Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy

"I sure miss you ......

Now you're not around

You're not around

This old town."

'Old Town'

(Bain, Lynott)

The bronze statue of Phil Lynott in Harry Street (off Grafton Street) in Dublin attracts thousands of tourists and music fans from all over the world.

Philomena Lynott, his mother, said: "I'd like him to be remembered as a wonderful son, a kind and gentle soul, a great musician, poet, songwriter, lyricist. That's 'mother' talking, but I know he was great. That's why the fans are still there, and that's why they wanted him honoured."

Phil Lynott sings Old Town

Raglan Road, Dublin

Raglan Road, Dublin

"On Raglan Road on an autumn day ... "

The nostalgic words of Patrick Kavanagh that prompt "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears".

Listen to Luke Kelly singing Raglan Road

Patrick Kavanagh Statue

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh

By the Grand Canal, Dublin

This statue of Kavanagh was inspired by his poem 'Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin':

"O commemorate me with no hero-courageous

Tomb - just a canal bank seat for the passer-by."

Temple Bar, Dublin

The Temple Bar at Night

The lights of the Temple Bar, one of Dublin's most popular drinking establishments, beckon customers on a frosty December evening.

McDaid's Pub

McDaid's Pub, Dublin

McDaid's Pub, Dublin, the surreal haunt of Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), Brian Donleavy ('The Ginger Man'), Anthony Cronin and a host of other Irish literary giants.

In his book 'Dead as Doornails', Anthony Cronin writes: "McDaid's was never merely a literary pub. Its strength was always in variety, of talent, class, caste and estate. The divisions between a writer and a non-writer, bohemian and artist, informer and revolutionary, male and female, were never rigorously enforced; and nearly everybody, gurriers included, was ready for elevation to Parnassus, the scaffold or whatever."

Galway Street Musicians

Irish Traditional Music in Galway

"A piper in the streets today

Set up, and tuned, and started to play,

And away, away, away on the tide

Of his music we started; on every side

Doors and windows were open wide."

Seumas O'Sullivan

In Galway, as in Dublin's Grafton Street, you can expect an improvised musical street session at any moment.

Shop Street, Galway

Shop Street, Galway

An Ear for Music

"Age envisions a fiddler

While youth goes blindly by." C O'S

Seconds after this moment was captured, the elderly lady returned and placed money in the busker's fiddle case.