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Dubhlinns avatar is of the joyce seat in drumcondra next to the canal, round the corner from my gaff. where are all the skangers and the empty cans of dutch gold in the picture??? i think this has been photoshopped. is it possible to photoshop the real thing please? :roll:


this post structural pub has given me an idea!!
Im headin to a pub!
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Joyce?













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Patrick Kavanagh!
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Spot the difference.

James Joyce statue

Paddy Kavanagh statue

I hope you don't get lost on your way to the Pub.
When I'm in Drumcondra I usually go here

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Peter Laban wrote:Joyce?













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Patrick Kavanagh!
Na... It's this guy
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My mother brought me back a calendar from her last trip to Dublin. Each month has a black and white photo of an Irish writer: Synge, Beckett, Joyce, Kavanagh O'Casey, etc. Except for the guys wearing hats, they all have very disheveled hair. Were there no combs back then? At least I can use them as an excuse for my own inattentiveness.
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Peter Laban wrote:Image
Patrick Kavanagh!
Looks like Geoffrey Rush...
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Or Woody Allen. :lol:

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TonyHiggins wrote:Except for the guys wearing hats, they all have very disheveled hair. Were there no combs back then?
Yeah, it's a phenomenon known as hat hair. When you take of your hat, your hair tends to be disheveled.
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Walden wrote:
TonyHiggins wrote:Except for the guys wearing hats, they all have very disheveled hair. Were there no combs back then?
Yeah, it's a phenomenon known as hat hair. When you take of your hat, your hair tends to be disheveled.
It's the equivilant of today's "beard stubble" look. An affectation indicating a person too engrossed in <whatever> to worry about piddly things like hygene. I'm waiting for the "unbrushed teeth" look to become popular.

Here's a side question/thread jack. Why do the TV commercials depict guys with beard stubble yet absolutely no body hair? What's with the "smooth as a babies bottom" look?
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Post by Lambchop »

Flyingcursor wrote:
Walden wrote:
TonyHiggins wrote:Except for the guys wearing hats, they all have very disheveled hair. Were there no combs back then?
Yeah, it's a phenomenon known as hat hair. When you take of your hat, your hair tends to be disheveled.
It's the equivilant of today's "beard stubble" look. An affectation indicating a person too engrossed in <whatever> to worry about piddly things like hygene. I'm waiting for the "unbrushed teeth" look to become popular.

Here's a side question/thread jack. Why do the TV commercials depict guys with beard stubble yet absolutely no body hair? What's with the "smooth as a babies bottom" look?

It's to keep down the fallout on the set.
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Men with no body hair are really ladyboys.
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Post by flanum »

oops kavanagh :oops:

Speaking of hair and canals, what about the "grand canal" look? Ie lock to lock(like a bobby charlton).

And i wouldnt bother with fagans, theres a danger of bumping into bertie. Id go to McGraths or Quinns.
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Post by flanum »

DOUBLE OOPS!!! :oops: :oops: :oops:

Its a statue of Brendan Behan on the royal canal in drumcondra that looks remarkable like the statue of Kavanagh.

My mistake
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Ive just done a bit of Googling and found out that the statue of Brendan Behan was unvieled after my last trip to Dublin so I have not seen that one yet. I would have put it all together had I known about it but I was baffled about how somebody could mistake the Kavanagh for anything else :wink:
I'm be over there at the end of September and I'll take a pic of the Brendan Behan - I can't find an image on Google.
Behan was born and reared not too far away from there so it all adds up now.

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