Dear all,
If one wishes to remember the names of locations in Ireland, here are some that I still use!
It so happened that one day I visited OSI in the Park, the fellow behind the Public Desk, was about to have his lunch break and was less than helpful when I asked if I may have copies of the Harcourt Street to Shangannagh Junction maps. It's my lunch time, he said and then told me to come back at a later time , or on another day! Helpful type of fellow!! I said I would return later that day after viewing the following locations:-
Vice Regal Lodge,
Sackville Street,
Westland Row Station, New Brunswick Street,
Kingstown and Kingsbridge Stations.
I asked him for directions to Vice Regal Lodge as I believed this too was in the Phoenix Park. Well he blew a gasket. I'll have you know, said he, that "we are now a Republic, them places no longer carry them names, the names given to them by our oppressors of five hundred years. It's time the likes of you learnt that things have changed."
Well, I left his office, laughing to myself and think I touched a nerve there!
I should have remembered to mention Maryborough, Queenstown, Queens County and of course Kings County.
Perhaps I should havealso asked him how I might get to Nelson Pillar for the number Seven tram to Kingstown!!
How things have changed?