It looks a little bare doesn’t it?
Follow up on yesterday’s piece about the demolition of the old Murphy’s Pram building on High Street.
(c) LukeO
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The view on High Street today
Posted in Dublin History on February 23, 2011| 12 Comments »
“Country men are getting the jobs”
Posted in Dublin History, Social History on February 23, 2011| 17 Comments »
Reminds me of a certain episode of South Park.THEY TOOK OUR JOBS.
Irish Press (October 5 1934.)
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An Phoblacht/Republican News review of The Smiths ‘Hatful of Hollow’ (1984)
Posted in Dublin History, Music, Social History, tagged An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin, The Smiths on February 23, 2011| 1 Comment »
I love follow ups.
My sincere thanks to Stephie who commented on this recent piece regarding the launch of a new work on The Smiths at the Workman’s Club recently. In that book, the excellently titled ‘Why Pamper Life’s Complexities?’, Sean Campbell wrote of a feature on the band that appeared in An Phoblacht in 1984. Stephie dug it out of the AP/RN archive and sent it along.
Our emails are on the About Us page, it’s always great to find something ‘attached’ to a mail in your inbox. If it should be up here, send it on in.
Sean Campbell left a comment on the recent piece noting that:
The full account of this fascinating episode, involving The Smiths’ tour of Ireland in 1984, is included in my book, ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’, which will be published this month by Cork University Press.
I look forward to it.
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Dublin, 1937.
Posted in Dublin History, Social History on February 22, 2011| 1 Comment »
This has always been one of my favourite things to do on Come Here To Me, scan and photograph great old Dublin advertisements. These are all taken from the The Dublin Fire Brigade 1862-1937, released in 1937.
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Murphy’s on High Street knocked down?
Posted in Dublin History, Miscellaneous on February 22, 2011| 9 Comments »
Word filtering through on Boards.ie that this old building which used to house Murphys Prams has been knocked down sometime during the last few days.
(c) Gabri Le Cabri, 2006
Anyone have any pictures of what it looks like now? Anyone know why they knocked it?
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A fresh face in politics.
Posted in Dublin History, Politics on February 21, 2011| 4 Comments »
I’ve been keeping all election literature pushed through my door to send it on to the Irish Election Literature Blog, which I think is a great resource. When I found this one earlier on however, I was pretty tempted to rip it to shreds.
Confused? Have a look over at politico.ie here.
Colm McGrath: Colm McGrath had left Fianna Fáil by the time of the party’s inquiry in 2000, and did not participate. Frank Dunlop told the Tribunal he paid Colm McGrath £1,000 in connection with the Ballycullen rezoning in 1992, as well as other payments. Colm McGrath denied receiving the Ballycullen payment, and said other payments were political donations. Christopher Jones told the Tribunal he gave Colm McGrath £1,700 at fundraising functions between 1992 and 1999. Colm McGrath said he had no detailed records of these, but said he had received some support from Christopher Jones.
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Plaques of Dublin: The Eagle Tavern.
Posted in Dublin History, Social History on February 21, 2011| 4 Comments »
This is a great plaque I’ve not spotted before, on the Quaker Meeting House on Eustace Street. It’s right next to the IFI Cinema. Being a member of the IFI, and always using Eustace Street as opposed to passing through the heart of Temple Bar, I’m surprised I’ve overlooked it.
It is well known that on November 9 1791 the Dublin Society of United Irishmen was formed at the Eagle Tavern, which stood at this site. By no means the prettiest plaque in the city (I think one of the most visually pleasing is one we featured recently to Robert Noonan), it’s an important one none the less.
J.T Gilbert wrote of The Eagle in his A History of the City of Dublin that:
The society called ‘the Whigs of the Capital’, composed of public-spirited citizens of Dublin, held at the Eagle, early in 1791, their political dinners, attended by the Lord Mayor, the Duke of Leinster, Lord Charlemont, Lord Henry Fitzgerald, Grattan, Curran, Ponsonby, and several other patriotic characters.
Back on Culture Night we had a look inside the Meeting House today. Eustace Street remains one of my favourite little streets in the capital.
Seal of the United Irishmen movement.
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Want to live in Dev’s old gaff?
Posted in Dublin History, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged Dev, dublin, Eamonn DeValera, Easter 1916, Phibsboro, Properties on February 21, 2011| 2 Comments »
- Dev’s residence at the time of the Rising- 34 Munster Street
Day dreaming about winning the lotto and buying a house over the weekend, I came across the above on Daft (considering I have about as much a chance of winning the lotto as buying a house it was about as far fetched as daydreams get.) The house above is 34 Munster Street, Phibsoboro; Dev’s place of residence at the time of the Rising, and yours for just €290, 000. Phibsboro was a hotbed of activity around that period, with Dev, Harry Boland, Dick McKee, 15 year old Fianna member Seán Healy and 18 year old James Kelly amongst it’s residents involved in the fighting during Easter Week. Whilst Dev’s political legacy is “somewhat complicated,” his influence on Irish history is still felt today. If walls could talk…
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‘Hannah and her Sisters’
Posted in Dublin History, Events, Social History on February 19, 2011| 6 Comments »
This month-long exhibition to celebrate International Women’s Day falling in March looks excellent, it will take place in the ever-hideous ILAC Centre. I look forward to attending, as I consider Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington to be one of the most interesting characters of the revolutionary period.
01 March 2011 10.00
End date: 31 March 2011 18.00
Event: EXHIBITION: ‘HANNAH AND HER SISTERS’
About: Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington as a suffregette and Irish nationalist. She co-founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women’s voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women’s Workers’ Union.
Venue: Central Library, ILAC Centre, Henry Street, Dublin, Dublin 1
Organisation: Dublin City Council
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Feminist Walking Tour 2011
Posted in Dublin History, Politics, Social History on February 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
The image above is iconic. It shows Margaret Connery from the Irish Women’s Franchise League grabbing the attention of Bonar Law and Edward Carson, who look none too pleased. I remember the first time I read Unmanageable Revolutionaries by Margaret Ward and it really brought home the role women played in the most turbulent years of Irish history, not just in the separatist movement but the socialist and feminist movements too. Mná na hÉireann’s role in Irish history is too often forgotten, from the brave checkout staff at Dunnes to the likes of Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington.
The annual Feminist Walking Tour in Dublin always goes some small way towards correcting that, while also looking at some contemporary issues. I recommend popping along.
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day this by taking part in the Feminist Walking Tour!
Organised by Choice Ireland, the tour will follow a trail of women’s courage and achievements in history and today around the streets of Dublin, with guest speakers along the way. It’s been getting more successful each year, and is still a free event which is open to all.
The walk will start from the gates of Stephen’s Green park at 1pm on Sunday March 6th, and will finish up in the Exchange, Temple Bar for some eats!
Please contact us if you have any accessibility or other needs.
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“What kind of vegetables are they?”
Posted in Dublin History, Social History on February 15, 2011| 8 Comments »
Kathleen Behan.
Mother Of All the Behan’s on Katheen Behan is one of those great books so often overlooked. Her own mother was a maid in the house of Madame Maud Gonne MacBride, and I love this little tale from the book. I also scanned up the picture above, as I couldn’t find any decent sized image of Kathleen online.
I was in the ‘Deux Magots’ in Paris one time and an American that I was introduced to asked me if I had known James Joyce. I said that I hadn’t had that honour, but I told him that my mother had often served a meal to W.B Yeats in Maud Gonne’s house on Stephen’s Green and that the poet turned up his nose to the parsnips. ‘He didn’t like parsnips?’ said the American reaching for his notebook,’You’re sure this is factual?’
(…)
He wrote in the book: Parsnips- attitude of Years to. ‘And you say he didn’t like Stephen’s Greens either- now what kind of vegetables are they?’
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Kingsland RIP
Posted in Dublin History on February 15, 2011| 3 Comments »
While walking down Dame Street over the weekend, I was shocked to see that Dublin favourite Kingsland chinese restaurant had gone. In its place was a much more gaudy looking establishment called KingCharlies.
A quick google search led me to finding out that it actually closed back in May 2009!
Picture: infomatique (flickr)
Kingsland was a real Dublin institution. I’ve been trying to find out when it actually opened. The newspaper clip below shows that they opened another branch in Dalkey in 1984, so I guess the Dame Street restaurant dates back to at least the early 1980s? I’ve made the necessary correction on my list of Dublin’s oldest restaurants that are still open.
(c) The Irish Times. Tuesday, March 13, 1984.
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