Long, long ago, before many of you were born, in a dim and distant land(Dublin) far, far, back in the mists of time(1986),I went, as was my wont, to the Screen Cinema, Hawkins Street (now sadly shut).
I chose a film and entered for the worst cinematic experience of my life.
It was a film about Rosa Luxemburg (a German revolutionary, agitator ;executed in 1920),in German with English subtitles. I made my excuses to the £1.50 ticket I had purchased and I departed. Probably the only time I left the cinema early.
Thought of posting that here before but I am only now finally over the trauma,
and the boredom.
Incidentally, the past really is a foreign country, Dublin at that time was full of derelict sites, there was no money or incentive to build.
In many places (including on the quays) you could see where a house in a brick terrace had been demolished and the gables of the 3/4 storey houses either side would be propped up with large wooden beams.
Stephen's Green Shopping Centre opened, 1988- before that it had been an empty lot, for years, behind plywood hoardings.
Jervis St. changed from hospital to shopping centre in 1989,
and even in 1986,most of the M50 was merely a gleam, glinting in the eye of some planning engineer.
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Shalom/salaam.
10,000 years of Middle Eastern civilisation and the place is not at peace but rather in pieces.