The Spirit of Busking, Temple Bar

In town today for a change, to go to a reading (in the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar) my friend P and others were giving for the Dublin Book Festival. Coming out afterwards, I noticed this little tableau, the busker apparently having taken a break. The little death (or life) mask near the top is presumably some species of street art.

Later, we had a cup of tea and a chat in the the old Central Hotel on Wicklow St., then went to The Secret Bookshop, where I noticedTHIS arrangement.