Friday, 31-October-2025
Halloween in The Liberties isn’t something I’m ever going to forget.
Seriously – Dublin does Halloween, but the Liberties does Halloween. I can’t quite express just how many fireworks there are in the days and weeks leading up to Halloween… and then the evening of? It’s just a constant cavalcade, a barrage of legendary proportions.
I won’t try to be poetic. I’ll just post pictures and a video.
Wednesday, 29-October-2025
The day is finally here.
11 months of work. A few thousand hours of effort. Probably around 3,000, give or take.
Lots of frustration. Friendships made, friendships strained.
A crush. A relationship. A love. Built and developed, one moment at a time, step by step.
Top marks earned. One reading, one paper, one exam and one presentation at a time. One by one, studying and learning and focusing and breaking and cracking under the pressure. Rebuilding myself, only to break again… and then to be helped up, to stagger forward a bit more.
All for this. A parchment, handed to me, just one person in an endless stream of faceless celebrants.
Success and completion, at least for a moment, before we were sent on to the next challenge.
Tuesday, 28-October-2025
As I mentioned; having friends or family visit is a lovely excuse to see the touristy parts of my home city that I wouldn’t otherwise see.
We started with the Jeanie Johnson, which I hadn’t seen.
Then off to Trinity’s Old Library, which I had.
Lastly, the Dublin Castle itself, which I hadn’t seen.
Nicely book-ended, no?
Well, in case the photos don’t make it clear enough… Dublin Castle is fancy. Like… fancy-fancy. Not “Buckingham palace”, or “The Vatican” level, obviously… but still. Pretty damn fancy.