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Between The Canals.

Posted in Events on March 4, 2011| 2 Comments »


Ronnie Drew- Johnny McGory (featured in film)

I really enjoyed the film Between The Canals, it arrived last year for the Jameson festival but seemed to have gone into hiding then. At long last, it’s getting a run at the IFI, with tickets available over here. the influence of films like Le Haine is clear, but Between The Canals has that great Dublin wit at its heart and is right up there with Intermission in my eyes in terms of presenting a Dublin that exists below the surface.

On March 19th, there will be a discussion on the film at the IFI, which is free to attend.

Director of Between the Canals Mark O’Connor and actor Peter Coonan will join Tony Tracy (NUIG) at the IFI on March 19th at 12.00 to discuss the trials of shooting a micro-budget feature in Dublin’s inner city over 12 days with a largely non-acting cast. This event is FREE but ticketed so please call IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 to reserve your seat.

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‎”As Conor Lenihan was leaving, the man shouted if he had the money he’d buy him a ticket to Afghanistan.”

Posted in Politics on March 4, 2011| 1 Comment »

This is incredible listening. It’s a recent RTE radio documentary on the Tallaght dogfight between Conor Lenihan and Mr. Tallaght Charlie O’Connor, both running on the Fianna Fáil ticket in Dublin South West.

More than the dog fight between the two candidates however, it’s incredible to hear the reaction from people on the doors. It’s a level of anger that surely even the Soldiers of Destiny were surprised by. On Monday night, RTE will broadcast ‘The Naked Election’, a show following several politicians on the campaign trail. It will include two from the capital, namely Leo Varadkar of Fine Gael from Dublin West, and Paul Gogarty of the Greens from Dublin Mid West. If anything like this radio programme, fireworks can be expected. On the telly ad, Gogarty says that he is “..worn down from two years of abuse from people.”

If you have the 41 minutes to spare, give the radio documentary a click.

Mr. Tallaght. Photographed with Charlie O'Connor.

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“… more wage-earners in its ranks than any Labour Party, and more farmers than any Farmers Party.”

Posted in Politics, Social History, tagged , , , , , , , on March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

ADW's excellent take on Bertie Ahern.

I’ve a bit in the latest CrisisJam over on the excellent Politico.ie looking at the historical context of the collapse of Fianna Fail’s support in the capital. You can read it here.

Fianna Fail, Sean Lemass told a gathering of youth party members in Inchicore in November 1947, had “… more wage-earners in its ranks than any Labour Party, and more farmers than any Farmers Party.”

The class make-up of the party in Dublin was always a matter of considerable pride, when coupled with the historic roots of the party in the anti-treaty IRA. In 1954, when a young Charles Haughey was put before the people as a part of the “New Guard” of the party, he shared space on his inaugural election leaflet with Oscar Traynor and Harry Colley. Traynor was among the most highly regarded of the ‘men of Easter Week’, serving in the Metropole Hotel with the GPO Garrison during the rising. Harry Colley, the leaflet noted, had been “..left for dead at a Dublin street barricade.” Almost 40 years on from the rising, Fianna Fail was still presenting itself as the party, and indeed the vanguard, of Irish republicanism. New candidates like Haughey often came from the same bloodline as many of the ‘Old Guard’.

The Fianna Fail election leaflet mentioned in the piece, introducing a certain Charles Haughey to the fold, was uploaded here on Come Here To Me in the past. You can read it here.

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Ghostly poetry and rub a dub

Posted in Music on March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

If your heading to one gig this weekend, I’d recommend GhostPoet in The Grand Social tonight. Doors 9pm, €10 entry.

Recently migrated from the capital city of the West Midlands – Coventry – to the southerly climes of London, Ghostpoet looks set to make his mark on 2011. The softly spoken 24 year-old has already won over BBC Radio 1’s foremost tastemaker Gilles Peterson with a handful of off-kilter, loopy electronic ditties blessed with his delightfully rambling musings on modern life.

Afterwards? Get your reggae/dub fix at Roots Pon De Corner down at The Dark House Inn.

In its first few months in existance, the Roots Corner Sessions have quickly become one of the premier nights in Dublin for quality roots music. For March, two of the countries leading roots sounds will be passing thru the Dark Horse venue, starting with Galways finest, The Rootical Soundsystem.

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Never change a crappy system!

Posted in Miscellaneous, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on March 2, 2011| 2 Comments »

We have a few posts on here about Dublin’s Nitelink, including one of my favourite DFallon posts ever,  about his travails in Leixlip at silly o’clock in the morning having fallen asleep on one (if you haven’t read it yet, do so.) In the last couple of months, we’ve shared scary news of an impending cancellation of the service, set up a Facebook page to save it, and broken news of its current status.

Dublin Bus- Never change a crappy system.

So, when I saw the above stickers on Henry Grattan Bridge, I couldn’t help but grin and get the camera out. I don’t know how long the stickers have been about but what I do know is I WANT ONE.

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‘Report recommending alteration of street names’ (1922)

Posted in Dublin History, Social History on March 2, 2011| 3 Comments »

This comes from the Dublin Corporation Minute Books and is from the Report of the Paving Committee. It suggests a number of name changes for the capital, many of which are to acknowledge historical connections to certain streets.

Among the name changes proposed were:

Beresford Place (at Liberty Hall)- Rename Connolly Place.
Fitzwilliam Square- Rename Plunket Square
Brunswick Street- Rename Channel Row
D’Olier Street- rename Smith O’Brien Street
Henry Street- To be united with Mary Street
Nassau Street- Rename Tubber Patrick Street

These are just a few of the recommendations. As ever, click to expand.


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Football is back.

Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Cliftonville versus Saint Patrick’s Athletic, played out under a beautiful yellow smoke last night in Inchicore. Glad to have it back.

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Usher calls into Charlies and Bruxelles before getting pulled over by the Gardai

Posted in Music on March 2, 2011| 1 Comment »

Mad stuff.

Have you seen the video of Usher hanging out in Dublin yet? It was taken after his show on Feb 27.

1:02 – Usher in Bruxelles off Grafton Street
1:22 – Usher strolls into Charlies on George’s Street
2:15 – Taxi pulled over by Gardai. Apparently all they wanted was an autograph!

According to RTE, the singer visited Bruxelles on Harry Street at 12.45am along with his bodyguard, crew, chauffeur and tour photographer.

“I asked him what he’d like to drink and he said, ‘Guinness, of course’ so I asked him would he like to pour his own. He jumped at the chance.” says barman Dermott Hayes.

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Grangegorman Military Cemetery

Posted in Dublin History, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on March 1, 2011| 18 Comments »

As mentioned before, last weekend was a busy one for CHTM! with involvement in the Punky Reggae Party gig on Friday night, the Sounds of Resistance gig on the Saturday night and the latest pub crawl scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Before the pub crawl though, JayCarax had lined up a walking tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery for us, led by Ray Bateson, author of “They Died by Pearse’s Side,” historian and specialist on those killed in the Easter Rebellion, 1916. We were joined on the tour by comrades from Story Map, the Chasing the Light photography blog, and Irish History Podcast.

Grangegorman Military Cemetery

Grangegorman Military Cemetary lies 2.5 miles from the GPO, but ask any Dubliner about it’s existence and who’s buried there, and you can be guaranteed you’ll get a blank face from the majority of them. Located on Blackhorse Avenue, not far from The Hole in the Wall pub, it is the resting place of British soldiers who died or were killed in action on this island. Whilst, for obvious reasons, a large portion of our interest was given to those who died on Easter Week, there are graves scattered around of those who came/ were sent here to recover from wounds received in the trenches of World War 1 and a long line of graves for those who died in the sinking of the RMS Leinster in 1918.

5th Lancers, 25th April, 1916

Military casualties (not counting police) in the Easter Rebellion were around the 120 mark, with those killed serving a variety of different battalions though most notably, large numbers from the South Staffs and the Sherwood Foresters battalion, killed in the Battle for Mount Street Bridge. Battalion badges are marked on the headstones along with the name of the person buried, their rank and the date of their death whilst a very few have personal inscriptions. Matching the battalions and dates from the gravestones with the known events in Easter week can give us an idea of where these British soldiers met their deaths. The grave above bearing the date 25th April and the soldier’s battalion, the 5th Lancers, suggests for example, he was wounded the ambush of the ammunitions convoy by Ned Daly’s garrison at the Four Courts and died the following day.

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A follow up to that post on the Battleship Potemkin.

Posted in Miscellaneous on March 1, 2011| 3 Comments »

My thanks to Dara McH for getting onto my Facebook page quick as a flash after the last post on the IFI screening of the Battleship Potemkin. Dara linked me to an interview with the oldest surviving member of the Potemkin, a famous adopted Dubliner by the name of Beshoff. “Dublin is missling a plaque” he wrote .Too right.

Sam has previously done some digging on the oldest restaurants in the capital, but the story of Ivan Beshoff is something in a similar field I hope one of us can get stuck into in future. I think he’s mentioned doing it before in passing, and it’s a fascinating tale worth the research.

Check this out, it’s “..an interview between Ivan Beshoff and international journalist Enzo Farinella produced for the Italian News Agency (ANSA) in 1987 and published in several Italian newspapers.”

In Ireland Ivan Beshoff made many friends. “I knew Eamon De Valera, Countress Markievicz, George Shannon and many others. All my life I had to suffer a lot. Immediately after the Civil War of 1922 I was arrested by the Fine Gael Government as a spy. George Shannon had me imprisoned for a month while my friend De Valera had me arrested in Galway in 1932, holding me at the prison in Limerick”.

“I worked at this time with oil products from Russia. At the beginning of the second world war the oil company had stopped working in Ireland. It was then that I opened my first fish and chip shop in North Strand Road that unfortunately was bombed by the Germans. From there I transferred to another place that now I have passed on to my son Anthony. For this reason we know the Italian community in Dublin well.”

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Battleship Potemkin at the IFI.

Posted in Events on March 1, 2011| 1 Comment »

The Battleship Potemkin (1925) is one of my favourite films and undoubtedly one of the most inspiring films of all time, not least for that scene at the Odessa Steps. The film will be shown on March 5th (5pm) at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar, as part of of the Dublin Festival of Russian Culture. Interestingly, it will be re-released in April.

Eisenstein’s influential masterpiece about the navy mutiny that sparked off the Russian Revolution has been newly restored by the Deutsche Kinemathek. Edmund Meisel’s original score is played by the 55-piece Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, conducted by Helmut Imig [more].

Battleship Potemkin is showing as part of Dublin’s Festival of Russian Culture and will be re-released in April. Preview courtesy of the British Film Institute.

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‘The Royal Dublin Fusiliers’

Posted in Dublin History, Social History, tagged on March 1, 2011| 1 Comment »

This is a nice little piece I thought worth scanning up, awarded to the men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers upon in recognition of “faithful service” and for being a “member of the old regiment on its disbandment.”

Its visually quite stunning, not least on top where one finds the exploits of the regiment abroad listed.

We frequently feature the history of the republican and socialist movements in the capital, but the Royal Dublin Fusiliers have a central role in the history of the capital too.

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