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I have to laugh! The Mills Mansion by the Hudson River! Ha, ha! It looked so damned European. The only thing that struck me as 'American' was these info placards for the tourists. I should have known.

 

As a Beafeater at the Tower of London once said to a large crowd of Americans: 'Ah, you poor Americans - you don't have a history of your own! Do you know what this gate once was called?' Pointing at the Treators Gate, facing the River Thames:

 

'- Watergate!'

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I could pretend to know it and recuse myself, but I don't know it. Before reading "river" I thought a north shore of Long Island estate, in the area of the Vanderbilt's.

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I could pretend to know it and recuse myself, but I don't know it. Before reading "river" I thought a north shore of Long Island estate, in the area of the Vanderbilt's.

 

Stu, Vanderbilt Mansion ist only a few miles away.;)

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OK folks, this place has strong literary connections. Not a prize-winning picture, but it is not ambiguous. Bonus points for the specific name.

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Would it be "The Forty Foot" Sandycove, Ireland

 

Is mise le meas (since this is about Ireland)

GaryO

 

It would be and is! I'm impressed. This is on the south end of Dublin Bay.

 

James Joyce very briefly lived just behind the picture in a Martello tower, and this place figures early on in Ullyses. It also shows up in At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (fine writer, who wrote a captivating column in the Irish Times under the pseudonym of Myles na gCopaleen. The columns are published and are terrific reading).

 

So GaryO, you're up.

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Thank you MIchael. We have friends in Dalkey that we visit whenever we go to Dublin. I think I have actually seen the sight from the DART on the way to Dun Dun Laoghaire.

 

The picture is an example of Global Warming.

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