Re: Winding Stair?dazedandbemusedFebruary 10 2006, 00:45:33 UTC
Apologies for terrible cut and paste job. I read it on Redbrick the other day.
It reopens in April.
From Saturday's Irish Times Magazine (article about the new 'Fresh' supermarket in Smithfield):
"In April he will reopen an old chapter in Dublin coffee-house history, when the Winding Stair book shop and cafe reopens its doors on the north quays. He promises that little will have changed. The mismatched furniture and rickety, dusty feel will be left intact. The original owners left all the books, taking only first editions with them when they left. New customers will be able to fall in love with the Liffey from two storeys up, and old regulars might hope to step off the busy footpaths into a quieter, gentler Dublin."
I only discovered the place myself shortly before it closed. I'd passed it for years on the bus into town, but never really ventured down there on foot (So lazy!)
Hope you got the articles done. I'm not looking forward to the amount of writing that's coming my way. I'm still too scared to collect my essays from last semester. Will need moral support methinks!
Not too pleasant classmates are a big part of the reason for my changing from Sports Science to International Relations. I like to think I've learned from that and the people in this course seem much nicer so hopefully all will go well.
It reopens in April.
From Saturday's Irish Times Magazine (article about the new 'Fresh' supermarket in Smithfield):
"In April he will reopen an old chapter in Dublin coffee-house history, when the Winding Stair book shop and cafe reopens its doors on the north quays. He promises that little will have changed. The mismatched furniture and rickety, dusty feel will be left intact. The original owners left all the books, taking only first editions with them when they left. New customers will be able to fall in love with the Liffey from two storeys up, and old regulars might hope to step off the busy footpaths into a quieter, gentler Dublin."
I only discovered the place myself shortly before it closed. I'd passed it for years on the bus into town, but never really ventured down there on foot (So lazy!)
Hope you got the articles done. I'm not looking forward to the amount of writing that's coming my way. I'm still too scared to collect my essays from last semester. Will need moral support methinks!
Not too pleasant classmates are a big part of the reason for my changing from Sports Science to International Relations. I like to think I've learned from that and the people in this course seem much nicer so hopefully all will go well.
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Best of luck re writing & essays yourself- I know how tough it can be, and at the very least we can always wail at each other on here ;D.
Glad to see the change is working out for you, hon- long may it last,
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