This visual poem for Dublin is just perfect

Wed, 17 Dec, 2014 - 16:01

Dave Molloy

Know someone coming home to Dublin for Christmas?

This might be just the thing to get them in the mood - a visual poem dedicated to the city herself.

Dublin - With her seedy elegance, with her gentle veils of rain / And all her ghosts that walk / And all that hide behind / Her Georgian facades...

The team over at Visit Dublin might be a tourist organisation, but this beautiful reading of the poem 'Dublin' by Louis MacNeice is just perfect for those getting ready to visit home this December.

It's also a wonderful reflection on how little the soul of the city has changed since this poem was penned in 1939. Even better, MacNeice wasn't a Dubliner himself, but from Belfast - but knew the city so well.

Read by modern Dublin slam poet Stephen James Smith, it's put me in the mood to stroll the cobble streets next week.

Anyone else?