If you go rolling down to Dublin town, you will find an art installation celebrating the poetic qualities of ships’ names.
Dublin Ships, by Cliona Harmey and commissioned by the city council, beams out the names of its port’s most recently arrived and departed ships on two large LED screens. They stand at the Scherzer rolling lift bridges in the old docklands area close to the striking harp-shaped Samuel Beckett Bridge built in 2009.
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