Come Here To Me!

The younger Fallon picked this up recently in a second-hand bookshop, for the great price of a single Pound.

In Dublin’s Fair City, by G. Ivan Morris, was a London published guide to Ireland for visitors.

“The author is a well-known Dublin publisher and master-printer who, in the midst of an unprecedented pressure of business, has taken the time to write this book for the guidance of visitors to Ireland.”

Here are a few scans of note, on everything from Yo-yo’s to Grafton Street.

We’ll begin with this, a warning on discussing Communism in Dublin. Notice it gives reference to New Books, a bookshop selling “Communistic literature”.

Apparently, drink used to be cheaper than in England. Half the price in fact.

Thomas Moore and his yo-yo is a well-known Dublin story.

The Irish Times is discussed here, described as the paper of the old Ascendancy.

Fashionista’s