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Sandymount. Co.Dublin.Republic of Ireland. 12/07/2014
A dog stretching his legs in the evening on the sands at Sandmount Strand. Sandymounty Strand was immortalised by its inclusion as a passage in James Joyce's Ulysses.
From the book The Republic (Allen Lane, 2016) Seamus Murphy's personal and immediate look at his native Ireland on the eve of the 100th anniversary of its revolutionary Easter Rising, which paved the way for independence for the south of the island, the Republic of Ireland.