ringsend

Updated: June 3, 2025

''Tis a tremendous night, gentlemen, so by your leave I'll stir the fire and, yes, I seen him, poor Nutter and, paugh, an ugly sight he is, I can tell you; here Larry, bring me a rummer-glass of punch his right ear's gone, and a'most all his right hand and screeching hot, do you mind an', phiew altogether 'tis sickening them fishes, you know I'm a'most sorry I went in you remember Dogherty's whiskey shop in Ringsend he lies in the back parlour, and wondherful little changed in appearance.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard

The only sailor whose eyes could have been called green was a tall man who amused the crowd on the quay by calling out cheerfully every time the planks fell: "All right! All right!" When we were tired of this sight we wandered slowly into Ringsend. The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.

James Joyce - Dubliners