William Street West. Galway, 2024.
A TALE OF A TOWN
For an outsider, the laid back towns of West of Ireland can feel timeless. Streets are stained. Buildings bear marks of life and weather. Pleasant untidiness and randomness prevails. Apart from the cautious (and often fiercely opposed) developments, few odd luxury stores and trendy coffee shops, tidy middle class conformity and gentrification are still hold at bay. For now. The beauty is unpolished and it is accidental, but it is palpable.
Things are left - or kept - as they are. Is it indifference, obstinacy or rare respect towards the past? German philosophy has a word for it, Gelassenheit. Being should be permitted to prevail, to be.
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