Dublin used to be one of my favourite cities when I worked there around the Millennium. The new century has seen it turn into a parody of itself. Then what else could have happened? We can never really preserve the past . Travelling on a preserved railway can never give you the same experience as travelling in the 1930's or even the 1970's for that matter.
Every time I go back to Ireland the things I used to love seem to be harder to find: the music, the bars, the rural villages and even the people
So whenever I travel there I try and photograph houses that will soon be renovated or replaced
Here is a selection of this year's photos.
Despite travelling by rail down to Kilkenny I didn't take many railway related shots, but here are a few, beginning with a couple of waggons from the old copper mines.
