A bit of a surprise

Once again, a trip to the bank led to a few moments around that area for the sake of Blip. I've been up and down these streets and laneways very, very many times, but today was the first time I spotted this plaque on a wall in Baggot Street in memory of Thomas Davis, the Irish patriot and champion of independence. From what I've since read on the internet, the house in question (number 67) belonged to Davis's mother, and it was here that he died of scarlet fever on 15th September 1845 at the tragically early age of 31.

It's like they say: Blip is wonderfully educational -- especially when you follow the advice to 'Look up and look down'. The plaque itself is no great shakes (even if it is the work of Lawrence Campbell RHA -- died 1964), but it's certainly a world apart from Edward Delaney's memorial at College Green (affectionately known by Dublin wits as Frankenstein, or even 'Urination once again' -- Davis wrote a poem called A Nation Once Again which was set to music and in the opinion of many would have made a better national anthem than the one we have).