Our current crusade with Dublin Sketchers is shopfronts of Dublin. Old, New, Disappearing. All of them!
So on this day, it was Sweny's Pharmacy. Of Ulysses fame. This is the pharmacy where Leopold Bloom buys a bar of lemon soap. It's now a little museum, dedicated to James Joyce. You can still buy the soap there. Which is what I did when I was sketching inside.
It's been in danger of closing for a long time. I'm a bit worried about it now, as I heard that its owner, PJ, was in hospital. Fingers crossed he will make a good recovery and we won't lose yet another corner of authentic Dublin.
It was a cold morning, but a few of us were happy to stand outside for a while and capture this historic shopfront. It wasn't much warmer inside, but the old dusty bottles on the shelves were too tempting!
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