Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 34 - "Kamille's Voice” (カミーユの声) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research Dublin as depicted in the episode, and the inspiration for Beech Mansion.

- General background on Dublin from Britannica and Wikipedia, as well as two overviews of the history of Dublin, a page on the River Liffey, and one about the Protestant Ascendancy.

- About O'Connell Street, it's monuments, and specifically the O'Connell Monument.

- More detail (with photos) on the various parts/tiers of the O'Connell Monument, and pictures of some of the bullet holes in the monument.

- One of the buildings from the show (next to the statue) demolished in the 1916 Easter Rising.

- A later incident in which the O'Connell monument was bombed by loyalists during the Troubles.

- Picture of the O'Connell Bridge.

- About O'Connell generally (Britannica and Wikipedia), and as an abolitionist.

- The Oath of Supremacy that prevented Catholics from serving in government, Catholic emancipation, and the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.

- The General Post Office, Dublin, and a picture of the same building, burned out in the Easter Rising.

- The Custom House: picture of the front, old photo of the Custom House before it was burned, and additional information about the burning of the Custom House.

- Topographical map s