These are the latest couple of panels,about 480mm in diameter in the windows of a fine eating establishment called
Noshington thats located on the South Circular Road,Dublin.Just across the road from Griffith College ,it serves a whole range of fine food and also opens some evenings with a wine menu.Go there,eat well,see glass. The panels are planet themed,mostly with waterglass and Desag,but they have some nice Lamberts art glass too.One is mostly blue/greens with a pale blue background,the other red/purple/orange with a pale lemon background.They are for sale in the cafe and when they find homes il do some new slightly different ones. See more of my glass at
Lustrousglass.com Feel free to comment!
This is the famous Sweny's chemist mentioned in Ulysses into which the hero Leopold Bloom enters to collect a concoction for Molly,his wife. He is told that he will have to call back later for the lotion and he asks if he can also buy a bar of lemon soap which he is told may be settled for when he returns. He heads off for a Turkish bath a few doors along carrying his mystical talisman for the remainder of the book. The shop has been kept as it was back in 1922 and is run as a bookshop and a homage to James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. It is run by volunteers,one of whom,PJ Murphy is standing in the doorway beside the mannequin of James Joyce in the third photo. I was thrilled to be lent the small side window to display some of my petite pieces which are for sale. The chemist holds daily public readings of one of Joyce's books which at the moment is 'Portrait of the artist' and weekly readings on a Thursday evening, of 'Ulysses' after which the patrons retire accross the road to Kennedy's for a pint of Guinness to quench their thirsts!
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