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The aftermath of the Nelson Pillar blast (photographs)
Image by Pól Ó Duibhir Thankfully, my The Pillar: The Life and Afterlife of the Nelson Pillar was recently released, it should be sitting on the shelves in all good bookshops at the moment. One of my...
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The first female student of Trinity College Dublin.
While Trinity College Dublin was founded in 1592 with the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I, women couldn’t actually study there until 1904. Certainly, there was a belief among some in authority...
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Dublin’s connection to the first German spy to be executed in WW1
Lody in Naval uniform. Credit – pinterest.com It was reported today in the Daily Mail (sorry for the link but they’re the only news service covering the story) that a letter written by Carl Hans Lody...
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Your invitation to the launch of The Pillar.
All readers are more than welcome to pop along to this on Monday night. The guest speaker is the brilliant Pól Ó Duibhir, who provided me with many of the photographs in the book and on the blog of...
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Following in the footsteps of King George IV.
West Pier, Howth. One thing I’ve wanted to see with my own eyes for a long time are the footprints of King George IV, recorded for posterity at Howth’s West Pier. It was there that he first set foot...
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The IRA memorial in Ballsbridge
Front view of the Ballsbridge IRA memorial. Credit – Sam (CHTM!) A stones throw away from a US Embassy is an odd location for a memorial to a revolutionary guerrilla army. But this is the case for the...
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What’s in a name: Some Dublin street names that survived the chopping board.
Image Credit: William Murphy (Flickr. Many more images of Dublin: http://tinyurl.com/nmnkpeb, Creative Commons copyright) Given the never-ending controversies that came with his O’Connell Street...
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Exchange of ideals and blows: The Westland Row church prayer-in of August 1968
Article on ‘Grille’ from Trinity News (31 October 1968) On the 27th of August 1968, a group of left-wing Christians were attacked and harassed by local parishioners in St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row...
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New plaque to Shane MacThomáis.
Plaque at Glasnevin Cemetery. A new plaque to Shane MacThomais was unveiled yesterday at Glasnevin Cemetery. Shane was the resident historian of the cemetery for many years, and the author of an...
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Street Stories Festival.
The Stoneybatter and Smithfield People’s History Project are doing wonderful work in Dublin 7 promoting both the history of the area and broader Dublin history. After many months of planning and...
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Drunken Vagabonds and Lawless Desperadoes
Gang violence has featured on Come Here To Me before; with the Pinking Dindies, the Liberty Boys and the Ormond Boys of the 18th century, through the various fracas’ of the Animal Gangs and on to the...
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RTÉ ‘Visual Eyes’ Paul Cleary special (1987)
In 1987, RTÉ broadcast three half-an-hour specials of the music show ‘Visual Eyes’. Slotted between a behind-the-scenes look at U2 playing Modena, Italy and an extended one-on-one interview with David...
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“The appearances of general extreme poverty among the lower people are...
Benjamin Franklin as he appears in the wallets of Americans (Wiki Commons) In September 1771, Benjamin Franklin arrived in the city of Dublin, in the company of colonial agent Richard Jackson. One of...
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Unlikely allies at the first ever public LGBT demo in Ireland
In San Francisco in 1973, gay activist Harvey Milk successfully petitioned gay bars in the Castro District to stop selling Coors beer. This was in response to an appeal from the Teamsters union who...
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“Anything good in The Irish Times? Just more Kim Il-Sung…..”
A curious feature of The Irish Times in the late 1970s was the frequent appearance of advertisements paid for by the North Korean state, detailing Kim Il-Sung’s thoughts and ideological positions on a...
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Dear, Dirty Dublin.
My thanks to Luke Fallon for providing these images, we’ve posted some of his images before on the site (for example the Croppies Acre memorial) and it’s a nice dimension to the blog that looks at...
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King Billy on the chain.
The office of the Lord Mayor have an official page over on Facebook, which I recently stumbled upon. It reminded me of something I’d wish to look at briedly on the site before, which is the Lord...
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Some meetings at the Street Stories Festival (This weekend!)
This weekend sees the inaugural Street Stories Festival happening in Stoneybatter and Smithfield. There’s a wide variety of talks, walks, gigs and more taking place over the weekend, beginning tonight...
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The Four Corners of Hell : A junction of four pubs in the Liberties
The Four Corners of Hell was the colloquial name given to the junction where New Street, Patrick’s Street, Kevin’s Street and Dean Street met in The Liberties, Dublin 8. In the shadow of St. Patrick’s...
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“Up The Beat Clubs!” A great image from October 1966.
(Image Credit: Thanks to Garry O’Neill, ‘Where Were You’) In October 1966, young teenagers grabbed national media attention by demonstrating on the streets of Dublin against the hugely negative...
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