Spring comes to Dublin, Ireland/Carlos Pueblo

Spring comes to Dublin, Ireland/Carlos Pueblo

There are many foreigners working in Dublin, Ireland. The population inside

The city limit is 530,000 and the metropolitan area is more than 800,000.

You can hear foreign sounds while walking downtown Dublin. I run into many

Orientals who are students or workers where the city provides much opportunity.

Ireland is a member of European Union; therefore, many Eastern European are

Coming here for work. Because of my laundry need, I walked along Lower Gardener

Street toward Parnell Street and found an oriental section on Parnell extended to

The O’Connell Street, the main avenue of downtown. There are grocery stores,

restaurants, computer parts store and services, and many other business like a

small Chinatown in the big city of U.S. Across the O’Connell, the streets are still

crowded with vehicles and pedestrians, I come to the Moore Street. It is a small

business street with an open air market of fresh produce mainly vegetables and

fresh flowers. The flowers shop owners are busy early in the morning sorting all

kinds of flowers and the customers have already dropped by picking up flowers.

Dublin is a high income city and it is reasonably to believe that there is a market

for such demand. One after I did find passion fruits from Spain at a fruits stand.

Henry Street shopping area is nearby. There is a red line light rail on Abbey Street

passing through many parts of the city. I walked toward Four Courts, the executors

od Irish rule and law, the old Jameson Distillery, an luxury restaurant and whisky

shop, and on the side, there is an old chimney viewing tower where you can have a

better view of the city. Then I kept following the map to the National Museum and I

missed the army barracks. I wonder if the Queen’s Irish battalion is from this barracks.

Walking across the River Liffey to the south quay, pier in common English. There are

many quays on both sides of the river that I can imagine the old day full of boats on

the river. Civic office is there and adjacent of the Viking/Medieval Area with Dublin

Castle, Old City Wall, Cathedral etc. There are about 1,000 years old and still in good

condition. I was busy to inspect every cherry blossom on the area. Trinity College,

National Library, and St. Stephen Green Garden are all adjacent to the old city area.

There is a pretty sail ship on the river without sails that day. On the north quay, there

Is a narrow park with the famous Irish starvation statues. Custom House is there. This

Is a very unique architecture which is as big as Taiwanese Presidential Palace in Taipei,

Taiwan. I chatted with the staff inside the Custom House about how the Brittan knew

the income value of the custom during the Nanking Treaty with Manchu Dynasty after

the opium war. I am so happy to come to Dublin in spring and witness the prosperity

of the city.