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Sat 03 Mar 2007Mannix Street PreacherIn windows opposite Dublin City Hall are 68 Warhol-like portraits of figures from 1916. How did they get there? Gerard Mannix Flynn has been at it again. He tells Gemma Tiptonabout Far Cry Productions.If you have recently passed Thomas Read, the pub on the corner of Parliament Street and Dame Street in central Dublin, you've probably noticed the faces in the upstairs windows, some of them immediately recognisable, some less so. Brightly coloured and lit up at night, the 68 faces belong to people who played a part in the formative years of the Republic. The installation, Something to Live For, is the work of Gerard Mannix Flynn's Far Cry Productions, and it celebrates, he says, the idea of building a cause to celebrate rather than finding one to struggle and die for.