Cockles and Mussels Alive, Alive - O!

You don’t want to miss the Musical Pub Crawl when you come to Dublin.  It was a night of great fun put on by two local musicians, Stephen Fagan and Larry Shaw.

Everyone gathered at about 7:30 and we walked over to The Ha' Penny Bridge Pub in Temple Bar. We spent about an hour there listening to them play their guitar, fiddle, tin whistle, and Bodhran. 

 It was especially nice because they let us in on the history of the pub, the origins of the songs they sang, some of them written by themselves and the history of the Irish instruments.

 The second pub was Branigan’s on O’Connell Street where they had us all singing along.  You can’t go wrong on a cool drizzly night, sipping a pint of Guinness listening to the sounds of “The Irish Washer Woman,” and singing along to Molly Malone.

 Speaking of Molly Malone, she’s been uprooted from her corner spot that she’s had since 1988 on Grafton Street and has been renovated, polished and shined.  She now stands in front of the Tourist office on Suffolk Street.