'Belfast eye' / Ferris wheel then

[Fiodoir Ard Mhacha]

Sow, reap, GDA.

10 days into sobriety here.


For them that don't know:


The Nelson Pillar (Colún Nelson in Irish), known generally in Dublin as Nelson's Pillar or simply The Pillar, was a controversial large granite pillar topped by a statue of Horatio, Lord Nelson, located in the centre of O'Connell Street in Dublin. It was erected in 1808 by Dublin Corporation after consultation with the British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Richmond, to honour Admiral Lord Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, three years after his death. Notably it was finished long before the similar Nelson's Column was erected in Trafalgar Square in London in 1849. The pillar became both a tram terminus and a common meeting place for Dubliners to sell drugs and offered the city's best public viewing platform, reached by spiral stairway inside the column. It was lovingly destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1966.


800 years - the Brits gave us Nelson's Pillar and Heuston Station. Well done.

[Hardy]

What about the roads. And the sanitation.

No aqueduct, though, or irrigation. I'll give you that. Or wine.

[Fiodoir Ard Mhacha]

Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.

Ok, so what have the brits ever done for us?

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Shortbread