Fantastic picture from August 1923 showing a young man sticking up poster proclaiming that De Valera has been arrested over old election posters asking people to vote for him.
© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
I was on Barmyflags getting a flag priced last night. I’ve always wanted an ‘Atletico San Patricio’ flag for Inchicore on Friday nights, it sounds a bit exotic for the League of Ireland and indeed the style of football played here!
Low and behold, Atletico San Patricio are a real club:
The other Saint Patrick's Athletic F.C
They play their football in Argentina. Like in Inchicore, they seem to have an ultras grouping behind them, notice the smoke and wavey’s:
Between our shared red and white kits, love of a good ultras performance and the whole matter of a name, maybe there’s a friendship there.
Their average gates seem to be in the low hundreds, I wonder if they’re aware of the Atletico San Patricio who have played from Berlin to Glasgow?
It’s nice to share a name with another football club, not least when they’re named after Saint Patrick despite geographical distance.
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Something I’ve done some research on lately (more on it later) is the southern response to the bombing of Belfast during the second World War. One of the most remarkable aspects of that response was the decision to send firefighters from the south across the border on two occasions.
This match day programme comes from 1945, and highlights the relationship that existed between the fire services in Dublin and the services in the north of Ireland. No doubt such a relationship was cemented and prospered as a result of shared experiences in war struck Belfast.
I can’t find a result for the game online, using all the various newspaper archives. I’d love to know how it finished. It is an early enough example of such cross-border solidarity.
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Dublin skinheads, mods, punks and ska heads rejoiced this month to learn the news that No Bother, a new and second hand clothing shop, have set up in the city.
While they look for a permanent premises, No Bother will have a widely stocked stall every Saturday (12 – 5) at the flea market in The Grand Social (old Pravda) on Liffey Street.
A selection of their merchandise.
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Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.
The seventh and final feature in our series on Dublin graffiti is on political tagging.
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
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Gerry Breen, Lord Mayor of Dublin, is enjoying his strolls to work as of late. All has changed utterly on the streets of the capital.
I would have encountered eight beggars on a short walk through the city now I’m seeing just one. Begging is much more random now and it is not as pervasive or aggressive as it was before the new Act came into force.
It costs in the region of €1 million a year to operate the offices of the Dublin Lord Mayor, for those of you who like figures.
The lack of filthy poverty stricken lumpens on the street is the effect of a wonderful new law, which has seen 177 people arrested for begging on the streets of Dublin over the course of just a few weeks. This Irish Times report on the matter makes for interesting reading.
THE GARDA Síochána has arrested 177 people for “aggressive begging” in the two months since new begging legislation was introduced on February 2nd.
The Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 2011 was enacted by the Government to deal with an increase in incidents of aggressive begging and harassment.
Beggars of course have a habit of getting in the way here, for example this man who disgraced the nation by appearing in the international press when Ajaj Chopra from the IMF was enjoying a leisurely stroll around the Stephens Green area. It is about time these economic criminals were brought to justice.
Gerry, enjoy the view.
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I remember having a good go at the Metro North on here before, wondering if the project was now little beyond a pipe-dream.
I noticed the official Facebook page for the project was recently updated with this graphic showing the travel distance involved on the line:
There is plenty of debate around the project of course. Anyone with a keen eye will have noticed that Carroll’s gift shop in particular seem firmly opposed to the Metro project, along with other businesses along Westmoreland Street who have been displaying anti-Metro North posters prominently in recent years.
The graphics below are designed to show what the Metro service will look like. What do you think? Of course, the story of King Dan and Big Jim needing to find new homes for the construction period is an aspect I’m not too crazy about…..
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From Hunt Emerson- Firkin (1989). Scanned from 'the brothers' collection.
I popped into the inaugural MylesDay on Friday. Flann O’Brien is among my favourite writers to emerge from this country, and The Palace Bar is undoubtedly the most fitting of places to honour him, owing to his frequent custom in times long past.
I arrived at 2:15, a quarter of an hour before kick-off. Alas, there was not a seat to be found in the pub. Journalists, writers, plain people of Ireland like myself and more besides had gathered for a day of readings and performances.
Val O’Donnell got things off to a flying start with bookhandling. It’s all in the delivery of course, and Val was just the man to launch the day:
A visit that I paid to the house of a newly-married friend the other day set me thinking. My friend is a man of great wealth and vulgarity. When he had set about buying bedsteads, tables, chairs and what-not, it occurred to him to buy also a library. Whether he can read or not, I do not know, but some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses. So he bought several book-cases and paid some rascally middleman to stuff them with all manner of new books, some of them very costly volumes on the subject of French landscape painting. I noticed on my visit that not one of them had ever been opened or touched, and remarked the fact.
‘When I get settled down properly,’ said the fool, ‘I’ll have to catch up on my reading.’
This is what set me thinking. Why should a wealthy person like this be put to the trouble of pretending to read at all? Why not a professional book-handler to go in and suitably maul his library for so-much per shelf? Such a person, if properly qualified, could make a fortune.
One by one excellent performers rose to pay tribute to O’Brien and as the clocks ticked away the laughter went on unabated.
I hope MylesDay becomes an annual event. Well done to the organisers, speakers and performers. The brother says he’s raging he missed it.
My thanks to FXR for the photos:
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My thanks to Paul Reynolds for linking to these images on our Facebook page, they come from a wonderful set of photos he took at the Dublin Derby last night.
The match was unexciting, though perhaps more exciting for me than most people present owing to a wonderful day spent in The Palace Bar celebrating Flann O’Brien. We’ll leave it there.
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New t-shirt lolz from Fresh Milk Clothing. Cheers to Chomsky for bringing this to our attention.
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Page 235, The antiquities and history of Ireland (1705).
Dublin has the disreputable honour of given the world the first known Black Monday.
On Easter Monday 1209, the native Irish, primarly the O’Tooles and others from Wicklow, massacred over three hundred Dublin citizens (many who had recently moved over from Bristol) in Cullenswood, close to modern Ranelagh.
The Irish Fireside (Vol. 1, No. 10, Sep 3, 1883) recalls that the native Irish:
… suddenly sprang from their lurking place on the unsuspecting (citizens), of whom they slew three hundred, besides a multitude of women and children who had accompanied their friends to partake in their harmless recreations.
The affair, which was dubbed The Cullenswood Massacre, was commemorated by Dubliners at its very spot every year for up to four centuries after.
It is generally assumed that the actual massacre took place in the area between modern Ranelagh and Rathmines which was afterwards christened Bloody Fields.
The Bloody Fields name was well-earned as in 1649 during the Battle of Rathmines it was the scene of another brutal slaughter, this time over 3,000 of the Marquis of Ormonde’s men.
This area, which now encompasses modern Oakley Road and Palmerston Road, is still known to some older locals as Bloody Fields.
Ranelagh and Cullenswood. c.1842
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Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.
The sixth feature in our series is on Stencil Art both political and non-political.
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
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