Dublin’s Hanging Flowers / O’Neill’s Pub and Guest Rooms

Hello, everyone! Happy Monday! I’ve got just the thing that’s going to brighten your day. Giant, blossoming, overflowing hanging flowers in Dublin! It’s one of my favorite times of year in the city, when the hanging baskets start spilling out over window sills and doorways.  I don’t know what most of the flower varieties are, but petunias play a leading role in most hanging baskets, and they’re most commonly found hanging from pub windows. Of course, that makes it all the more baffling how they manage to be so prolific – it’s not like the bartenders are out daed-heading blossoms as they go by! But yet they always seem to be thriving.  They’ll last well into the autumn, making the streets of Dublin so cheerful. I took these photos of the incredible flowers hanging from O’Neill’s Pub and Guest Rooms on Pearse Street just before I left for Maine. Aren’t they incredible? The antique globe lanterns are pretty great, too! This is one of my favorite details you might see while you’re walking around Dublin. See that little pillow in the photo above? I’m not sure the technical term for it, but when the trucks come to deliver kegs to the pubs, they’ll drop the kegs off the truck and let them land on that pillow before rolling them to a bulkhead to store them in the basement under the pub. If you see a truck unloading kegs (especially Guinness), look for the pillow!