This image, taken at the Royal Canal at Drumcondra features a horse-drawn barge coming down the canal with the horse visible on the tow-path on the left. In Ulysses, the party in the funeral cortège sees such a barge along the canal: “A man stood on his dropping barge, between clamps of turf. On the towpath by the lock a slacktethered horse. . . On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his raft coastward over Ireland drawn by a haulage rope past beds of reeds, over slime, mudchoked bottles, carrion dogs. Athlone, Mullingar, Moyvalley. . . Dropping down lock by lock to Dublin. With turf from the midland bogs.” Lee Miller writes that “nowadays there are only two such [horse-drawn] barges in Dublin.” She also writes that she was lucky some local kids stopped her when she tried to to scale a wall to gain a better view, as the wall was that of Mountjoy Prison.
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