North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Eyre Square

I'd like to think that the kicking that someone gave to the Santa ornament in Eyre Square, pictured on the front of the Galway Advertiser last week, was an impassioned protest against the overt commercialisation of the festival and a plea for a return to a more spiritual emphasis of its celebration. Except we all know that it was probably the work of the Buckfast-fuelled hoodies that haunt the Square like a bad smell.

Christmas decorations in the middle of November ? I give up. My pity goes out to the workers in Dunnes Stores who have had to listen to Christmas tunes piped through the store since the beginning of this month. I have a sneaking feeling that, when asked what they'd like as a Christmas present, the severed heads of Cliff Richard and Noddy Holder will feature prominently as an answer. A guy in a shop yesterday apologised to me when All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth came on, and blamed 'the other guy' for switching the CDs (nice try, buddy). If the author of that 'tune' walked into Dunnes anytime in the next month, I'd say he'd be lucky to come out with any teeth.

But enough of this Bah Humbug stuff. On a crisp Friday night, the lights did indeed look nice, and there were lots of people [including tourists over on a Thanksgiving break] admiring them and taking pictures. Click here for a small gallery of the Eyre Square Xmas lights. I'm using the build-in Flash gallery generator in Photoshop which is rubbish but the only one I've got - hence the dodgy format of the gallery pages.

Camera= Canon 5D, lens= Canon 75-300@170, ISO=200, aperture=f7.1, speed=1/15 sec, tripod.

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Posted by Monasette at November 26, 2006 11:04 AM