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David Bowie in Dublin (1969-2003)
Legendary English singer and musician David Bowie passed away this morning after an 18 month battle with cancer. As far as we can assert, he played Dublin a total of 18 times. This includes a sizeable...
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A hero nonetheless: Nurse Margaret Keogh and the Easter Rising.
Nurse Margaret Keogh(Image credit: http://www.myleskeogh ) Margaret Keogh (In some sources Margaret appears as Kehoe, in others Keogh, but more on that below) has gone down in some history books as a...
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“While Dublin was reproducing its squalid version of the Paris Commune….”
Reading contemporary Irish and British newspapers from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Dublin, I’ve been struck by how frequently comparisons were drawn between the six-day insurrection in...
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From neighbourhood local to cocktail bar : 18 Aungier Street
It is a brisk twenty minute walk from Portobello Bridge to the bottom of South Great George’s Street but on your way into town you pass about 30 pubs. They are in order: The Portobello (33 Sth....
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The unfortunate A.D Chalmers.
Many people would claim in the decades that followed the Easter Rising that they were in the General Post Office, and in some cases such claims have proven untrue. One man who was there however, and...
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When whiskey flowed in the streets of Dublin.
Previously on the blog, we’ve looked at the 1875 Dublin whiskey fire. It was as chaotic a day as any day you can magine. A fire in a bonded warehouse created a scene where burning whiskey flowed like...
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Richard O’Carroll: Brickie, Labour Councillor, Trade Unionist and Irish...
Richard O’Carroll While the Irish Citizen Army was regarded as the armed-wing of the trade union movement a century ago, it should be noted that there were also many trade unionists and men from the...
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CHTM is on Instagram.
CHTM is now on Instagram, at @chtmdublin. Instagram is an app and social media website for sharing images and short videos, in other words: It’s perfect for posting little tidbits that might not make...
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“In Trafalgar Square it might be fair, to leave old Nelson standing there.”
Image credit: RTE Player. RTE’s Rebellion has come in for a bit of a kicking in recent weeks. There are a few things about it that are worthy of praise, not least the performances of some of the cast....
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Dublin Re-Imagined
The recent occupation of Moore Street brought to memory past struggles to save buildings and locations of historic interest in Dublin. The ghosts of Wood Quay and Fitzwilliam Street’s Georgian Mile sit...
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Don’t Mention The War.
Survivors of the German SS Libau (known as the Aud) and the U19 submarine mission to Ireland at Dublin Airport, Easter 1966. Commemoration of history, ironically enough, tends to have very little to do...
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Moore Street.
Image Credit:Save More Street 2016 Facebook. I passed this earlier on today on Moore Street and was unable to get a decent image of it with the lighting, but this comes from the Save Moore Street 2016...
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Dublin tramlines, 101 years ago.
Click to expand. (Image Credit: NYPL) Thanks to Liam Hogan for bringing this excellent map to my attention, from the collections of the New York Public Library. This is Dublin 1915, with the red lines...
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The sunburst flag of revolutionary youth.
An tArdmhéara Críona Ní Dhálaigh and the banner of Na Fianna Éireann, Imperial War Museum. (Image Credit: An Phoblacht, http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/25620) The Imperial War Museum in London is...
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Lecture to mark the Golden Jubilee of the demise of Horatio Nelson’s Pillar.
Image by Pól Ó Duibhir. Against the backdrop of the centenary of the Easter Rising in March, it would be easy to forget that the 8th of March will mark the Golden Jubilee of the bombing of the Doric...
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Refugees Welcome? Belfast refugees and 1922 Dublin.
‘Public Notice’ from 13 May 1922, concerning Belfast refugees. It is hardly surprising that the revolutionary period witnessed a heightening of sectarian tensions in the north east of Ireland....
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Let Robeson Sing: Paul Robeson in 1930s Dublin.
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a hugely popular American singer and actor of stage and screen, who was also committed to radical political change and communist ideals. A keen supporter of the Soviet...
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Arthur Horner: The Welsh Conscientious Objector of the Citizen Army.
Arthur Horner (1894 – 1968) was a miner, a communist, a conscientious objector of the First World War and a trade unionist. Born in Merthr Tydfil, South Wales, he was politicised in the early...
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Bob Purdie’s memories of Dublin
Scottish historian and left-wing political activist Bob Purdie (1940-2014) published a number of autobiographical passages on his Facebook profile not long before he passed away. Two were focused on...
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The “Alleged Moralists” and the smashing of Nassau Street windows, 1912.
Ernest Kavanagh, born in Dublin in 1884, was a political radical aligned to Liberty Hall. He worked for the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, and as a cartoonist with a biting wit, he...
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