Mr George Moore, in "Salve", has some interesting remarks on the amenities of Dublin streets. He never failed to admire Baggot street, and calls it "a delightful draggle-tailed end of the town, silhouetted charmingly against the evening sky". For Harcourt street and Mount street he did not care; but Pembroke road, with its wide flights of granite steps leading to the doorways, rather appealed to him. When some citizens objected to the proposed Art Gallery over the Liffey as an obstruction to the western view, Mr Moore said that, in spite of the Loop Line, he much preferred the view of the Custom House. Few people are able to appreciate what is before them every day, but I should think that Dublin has some other vistas which are even more pleasing to the eye. The long stretch of Rathmines road, with the Three Rock Mountain as a background, is very attractive, although the road itself is disfigured by ugly hoardings. So is the view of Christ Church, seen from Cork Hill, and, on the North side of the city, the mile-long sweep of the Cabra road, looking towards Phibsborough Church.
The Irish Times, November 27th, 1930.