The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway
Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.
When a young Silicon Docks worker finds himself in possession of a homeless man’s ragged Lidl bag, it triggers a series of events that lead him to see Dublin in a new light.
As a young man recovers in a Dublin hospital after a fight, he starts to develop some new interests.
In a Dublin launderette, a young mother sits with a ball of baby-grows and bibs at her feet when a man in a rumpled Superman costume stumbles through the door.
In the outskirts of post-Celtic-Tiger Dublin, a single father drifts through the days, unable to find work, unsure of the future.