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Gone Fishing.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2011| 7 Comments »

Two blasts from the past here.

M.Garnett & Son was a well-known gun shop on Parliament Street. Millard Bros was located on Ormond Quay, not far from Watt’s gunsmiths.

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Walk safe in ’88.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Spotted this last night on the traffic lights at Pearse Street, next to the fire station. It’s a sort of lamenated stickie telling parents to set a good example for kids crossing the road. Nothing too exciting, until you notice the Dublin Millennium logo in the corner.

Is it up since ’88? Stickers don’t last a day in this city….

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Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011|

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“To cross Dublin without seeing a pub”

Posted in Dublin History, Miscellaneous, Pubs, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2011| 3 Comments »

The Digital Projects section of Dublin City Public Libraries have over the past year done great work in sticking up old images of the City in times past. The latest collection to go online is one hundred and thirty or so images of Dublin pubs, some whose doors are still open, others who who live only in the memories of ex- punters. The full gallery can be seen here.

The Commodore, from Dublin City Public Libraries

The Swallow, from Dublin City Public Libraries

The site is a mine of photographic information, they have fantastic galleries on Dublin’s Sporting Heritage, the ’74 Dublin Bombings, “Missing Dublin” and now this. I look forward to more.

Billy Lavelles, from Dublin City Public Libraries

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“…the old world is behind you!”

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A nice little find this on YouTube, only uploaded. It’s an excellent effort and really captures the spirit of the day. I don’t agree with all of the commentary, but love the presentation and the selection of images. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that day.

“An essay written and read by Luc Tezenas with pictures from the Dublin Student Protests that happened in 2010. This is for a narrative project in college. Inspired by 60’s photo documentary.”

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31/1/2011

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011| 1 Comment »

I’ve always prefered them full.

Big sale in our favourite holy shop, the one next to the Savoy.

Seashell Chipper. Once home to the battered Mars Bar. Now, dead and gone.

(more…)

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On Twitter, the kids call it #ge11.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Confused? Click here.

If you think the political system is banjaxed, at least offer to go on the Average Industrial Wage 😉

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Is this the best nightclub promotion poster ever?

Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2011| 2 Comments »

Cheers Rory, spotted on Facebook.

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The man with no shame.

Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2011| 6 Comments »

I was incredibly angry to hear B€rti€ Ah€rn proclaim to RTE that his biggest regret from his time in the Dail was not securing a proper football stadium for the capital. Is the man for real? While he may fly to Old Trafford to watch kickabouts, a lot more people are flying out of this country everyday seeking paychecks and a future. It was a disgraceful lack of respect to the Irish public.

When I heard the remarks, I’d just given a walking tour through the historic liberties and the centre of Dublin to the men from Kilkenny who have bravely walked to Dublin in opposition to the likes of Ahern and the economic mess created by the unaccountable behind those Kildare Street gates. At Dublin Castle, it had to be said that while historically we associate it with British rule in Ireland, people of my generation will always remember it as the place Bertie Ahern went to speak before a tribunal.

I hope, when he stands for the presidency, that comment yesterday comes back to haunt him. He really is a shameless individual.

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“The Brain of Every Riot and Disturbance”

Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on January 27, 2011| 1 Comment »

“For many years past, Liberty Hall has been a thorn in the side of the Dublin Police and the Irish Government. It was the centre of social anarchy, the brain of every riot and disturbance.” The Irish Times. (pg 191, Easter 1916, Townshend)

Neither Kenny nor Gilmore.

Reading through Charles Townshend’s excellent book “Easter 1916,” I picked out the above quote about Liberty Hall and thought to myself, how times really have changed. While DFallon’s recent post on Hawkin’s House challenged the myth, some still call it Dublin’s ugliest building, while others hold it in reverence. Although in this climate, the plans to see it torn down are unlikely, SIPTU have been talking about redeveloping as recently as last August. Personally I’d hate to see it removed, not because of it’s architectural significance or visually appealing exterior (or lack thereof,) but because of the historical relevance of the site and the significant difference it would make to Dublin’s skyline if it was replaced.

"And the banner read..." Originally posted here by DFallon

With the next government looking likely to be made up of a collaboration between Labour and Fine Gael, the current occupants of Liberty Hall, (SIPTU, who to be honest have been about as Anarchic as Tory Boy,) look fully set to have one foot in Leinster House. Not discounting the fact that due to Social Partnership, they have been bedfellows with the Government for over a decade, for the next four years or so, the party they have official ties with are to share power with a party whose roots are seeped in the fascist tradition. Dark days indeed.

"Vote Labour," Reclaim the Streets, 2002

I dread to think that in the next couple of weeks, a new banner will appear on the side of Liberty Hall, calling on the people of Ireland to vote Labour. Lets just hope it isn’t accompanied with an image of Joan “Joe Higgins eats babies” Burton. “The brain of every riot and disturbance” indeed.

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DO WANT.

Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2011| 1 Comment »

Via the Hairy Baby clothing company.

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What recession?

Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2011| 1 Comment »

The University Times promised a good report on this today and they delivered, to say the least. Reports of a Dublin University Snowsports Club trip to Grenoble getting up to all sorts were all over Twitter and had begun to make their way into the mainstream media, but the college paper has an excellent look at events on its website. It mainly involves students from Trinity College Dublin (how do you go from Swift and Wilde to this?) but a few UCD students decided to drag that institution into the dirt too. It’s an incredible piece of journalism from a student paper and it should be commended.

Reports of their antics make Fade Street sound like Moore Street in all truth.

Some gems from the piece:

A University Times investigation has revealed that members of a group of between 25 and 30 students, alumni of the private South Dublin schools Blackrock College, CBC Monkstown and Mount Anville wrought havoc on Trinity’s Snowsports Club’s annual ski trip in the week prior to the start of term.

Students on the DUSSC ski trip, in interviews with The University Times, described the behaviour of the group as “sociopathic”, reporting a “spend-off” between two former Blackrock students, one from Trinity and one from UCD, in which they competed to see who could spend or waste the most money

Both the DUSSC trip and the external trip were ejected from the hotel by gendarmes after a swastika was daubed on the wall of the third floor of the hotel with a two-inch thick paint marker. Displaying a swastika is punishable by a custodial sentence in France.

….and to think they tell you ‘class’ is a dead term.

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