Posts by Niall Connolly
Photographs from Women’s March on Washington
From Brooklyn to Myrtleville – Thank you to the Pine Lodge
January 11th, 2017 Prospect Park. Fishmongers and vegetable stands setting up the farmer’s market. Waking up. Walking. Down by the lake. Sunrise. Dog walkers. Joggers. A woman standing on pile…
Read MoreNew York is cold but I like where I’m living
Orphaned Christmas trees line the footpaths. Some in clear plastic bags. Like palm tree Laura Palmers. Back in Brooklyn. I took a week off after St. Stephen’s Day. I…
Read MoreOverheard on the Q53 Bus
Overheard on the Q53 – St. Stephen’s Day, Dec 26th 2016 “What do they do at their church, Daddy?” “They pray.” “Like how you pray at at the mosque Daddy?”…
Read MoreTales of a Dublin Taxi Driver
Dublin Airport, Christmas Eve, 2016 After the gig last night I took a taxi from the Workman’s Club to The Clayton Dublin Airport Hotel. “What’s the strangest thing that ever…
Read MoreA Battle We Must Fight
Cork – Dublin Train – December 23rd, 2016 The 2.20pm train pulls slowly around the bend and out of Cork’s Kent station. Passing my old school red bricked and…
Read MoreNightswimming Deserves a Quiet Night
Sunday Dec 18th, 2016 Well I woke up in a beautiful apartment on Rue Emile Gilbert in Paris. I went to bed at Daly’s Inn, Donore, Co. Louth. Surely as…
Read MoreVienna, Paris, Drogheda
Flight is delayed. I should still be fine. I hear Dan Donnelly in my ear saying stop being such “wee uptight bastard”. Dan is not here you understand that. If…
Read MoreA Whole Other World
Hofbräuhaus, Munich – 16:00 December 12, 2016 I arrived back in Munich at 13.27, precisely as Deutsche Bahn predicted. I’ve been walking around the old town since. A bright winter’s…
Read MoreTaking the Train with Bruce Springsteen.
December 10th, 2016 – My Mother’s Birthday Train from Cologne to Wesel 7.47am I’ve been touring with Bruce Springsteen. Did I mention that? Yeah, on this, carrying my own equipment…
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