New location? Still I Grafton Street, I hope, the main shopping thoroughfare in Dublin. What a great city.
Pardon my history buff nerdiness, but I love the fact that Jonathan Swift (you know, the guy who wrote
Gulliver's Travels) was the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Irish Anglican, not Catholic as you might think
in Ireland, during the English occupation you know). Jonathan Swift had a near life-long partnership
(played as a friendship at the time) with a woman, though they never married. This was a highly placed
cleric, mind you. AND, they are buried side-by-side in the Cathedral. How totally enlightened, whether
this was accomplished by vast denial or an understanding by winks. God bless Swift and his beloved.
Nothing like that could happened in our tight-assed times, anywhere. Progress. Huh!
