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Trinity News (1953 – 1970)

Posted in Dublin History on July 3, 2012| 3 Comments »

Trinity News masthead from 1956

While researching a different topic, I came across a fantastic new website and resource which presents online every issue of Trinity News from 1953 to 1970. Link here.

This material, the website states, was available thanks to a donation of five bound volumes by Colin Smythe. Funding to digitise the volumes was provided by the TCD Assocation and Trust and the Publications Committee and carried out by Glenbeigh Records Management.

No doubt it will now become an important tool for history students and researchers.

A couple of gems I’ve spotted so far.

Article from 1970 about a “hooligan” attack on a house party in Ranelagh.

Trinity News (29 January 1970)

A guide to Dublin restaurants from 1968.

Guide to Dublin restaurants. Trinity News – 18 January 1968

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Pride in numbers

Posted in Dublin History, Social History on July 2, 2012| 2 Comments »

(c) Workers Solidarity Movement

It’s fantastic to see the annual Dublin Pride Parade increase in number year after year. Approximately twenty years ago two hundred people attended the parade, last Saturday saw a staggering 30,000 turnout.

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I couldn’t seem to find mainstream reports on the Parade from the mid to late 1990s period. Can anyone help with numbers?

Here’s a incomplete timeline with attendance figures:

1992 – 200 people  (IT 06/07/92 )

1993 – 500 people (IT 28/06/93)

1994 – “Several hundred” (IT 27/06/94)

1995 –

1996 –

1997 –

1998 –

1999 –

2000

2001 – 3,000 (IT 02/07/01)

2002 – 6,000 (IT 29/06/02)

2003 – “Several thousand (IT 07/07/03)

2004 -5,000 (Indymedia 06/07/04)

2005 – 10,000 (IT 27/06/05)

2006 -“thousands” (IT 26/06/06)

2007 -“thousands” (II 23/06/07)

2008 – 5,000 (Indymedia 27/06/08)

2009 – 10,000 (IT 02/07/12)

2010 – 22,000 (IT 02/07/12)

2011 – 26,000 (IT 02/07/12)

2012 – 30,000 (IT 02/07/12)

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