UCD Ultras away. Respect.
Excellent stuff this from Dublin street artist ADW, one of the many Dubliners out there keeping the streets looking pretty. Nice to find this in my inbox this morning from a friend saying “You’d like this”.
One of the beauties of working in the city and having long lunch breaks is getting to walk up and down unfamiliar streets to see what you come across. ADW’s stuff is among my favourites, though sometimes the likes of Mr. Monoploy being carried away by two brave Guardians of the Peace isn’t likely to remain in place for too long. You do well to carry a camera in this city.
From the beautiful ESPO pieces at the Tivoli to the recent They Are Us project, Irish Street Art over here is well worth a look. You never know what you’ll find on your lunch break.
Timely Luas job:
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The last of the Maser/Damien Dempsey prints will be on sale tomorrow and Friday in The Good Bits between 4pm and 8pm. Get down, all the profits go to The Simon Community. Can’t get a more deserving cause than that me thinks.
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The launch night for this was a messy one. Skaturday is a monthly night up in The Workman’s Club, where myself and jaycarax from this parish and the Punky Reggae Party are allowed play some ska classics, and stuff from the broader family tree too. We launched this one on Arthurs Day (yeah yeah, it wasn’t a Saturday but exceptions can be made…) and the crowd seemed to approve. It will hopefully become a monthly.
Matt From The Dead 60’s steps in after us to see the night out. We kick off around 10pm. Bring yourself, your friends and your dancing shoes. The Workman’s is located on Wellington Quay, right next to the hotel Bono owns.
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The inaugural A Sense of Ireland festival in London in 1980 featured over 90 events in Irish music, theatre, literature, the visual arts, film, crafts, dance, photography, architecture and archeology. The Sounds Of Ireland was the festival’s music showcase featuring the cream of the crop of the island’s punk and new wave bands as well as the legendary Rory Gallagher.
The following two pictures are quite well-known and have been available online for years. However, the third one is a bit of a gem. I found it while flicking through the Hot Press’ ‘U2 File’ (1985). This is first time it has been put up online. The picture was taken by Colm Henry (I suspect he took the second shot as well) and shows the lead singers of five of the most important Dublin New Wave bands.
The Sounds of Ireland (1980)
clockwise from top: the Virgin Prunes, DC Nien, The Atrix and U2. (Taken from the IrishRock.org website)
From 'The U2 File: A Hot Press U2 History', ed. Niall Stokes (Dublin, 1985)
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Yesterday we popped up the displays from the SRFC Ultras and the SEI in the Tallaght Stadium. Here is the goal from the 90th minute that brings the clash to a second game. Unbelievable.
How do you even manage to do this?
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If your team aren’t playing in a crucial FAI Cup semi-final rematch tomorrow like mine are, this could be well worth a look. One of my most played DVDs without a shadow of a doubt, A Clockwork Orange has been chosen to kick off a brand new Tuesday night Cinema club at The Grand Social, the brainwave of the people at Crackity Jones.
Where is that? It used to be Pravda. For a period everyone in Dublin thought it was about to be renamed Hector Grays, but sadly that seems to have fallen through. Regardless, I had a quick look when passing through town recently and the place looks excellent since the revamp.
The film club is a weekly one, taking place at 7.30 every Tuesday night downstairs. More importantly, it’s completely free. It’ll be followed by a night of music, with DJ sets manned by Crackity Jones DJs, Megan Fox & Indie Dublin.
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To those who missed it last week, you have till November 1st to watch this fascinating documentary about the murders of two Jewish men in Dublin in the early 1920s.
Even though the Dublin of 1923 was a troubled place, recovering from the war of independence and the very recent civil war, the city was shocked by a spate of murderous attacks on Jewish men walking home to the area off the South Circular Road, known then, as “Little Jerusalem”. Bernard Goldberg, a 42 year old jeweller from Manchester and Ernest Kahan, a 24 year old civil servant in the Dept of Agriculture, were attacked and shot dead. Within the space of two weeks, two Jewish men had been shot dead and two more had been badly injured – the tightly knit jewish community in Dublin now feared the worst – that this was the beginning of a cold blooded anti-semitic campaign.
Despite extensive Police investigations – the killers were never found.
This is a story of intrigue, mystery, scandal, divided loyalties and cover up. For over 80 years the details of the story have remained shrouded in secrecy. For the first time on television CSÍ will piece together what really happened. Who the chief suspects were and what happened to them. And we uncover the trauma that the murders inflicted on the families of those left behind, trauma that ripples on to this day.
Map of Dublin’s “Little Jerusalem” (Adapted from Educational Jewish Aspects of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” 5)
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Two excellent displays in Tallaght Stadium today, from the SRFC Ultras and Shed End Invincibles. Both draw on the cup history of the respective clubs.
Typical rubbish policing was witnessed, the ever surprising stewards continue to decide just what qualifies as offensive (the words ‘Never Relegated’, apparently) and as ever drama was in no short supply on the pitch. Four goals was too much for my heart.
The faithful football supporter, red and white or green or white, has a replay booked into the diary now. Tuesday night, Richmond Park.
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A History of the City of Dublin, Volume Three (1859) by John Thomas Gilbert (1829-1898) describes, in passing, a dramatic sounding story involving the “notorious” Catherine Netterville and her lover “Mr. Stone of Jamacia” who killed himself in Netterville’s Grafton Street mansion.
John Thomas Gilbert, A History of the City of Dublin, Volume 3 (Dublin, 1859), p. 221
Who was Catherine Netterville? Why was she “notorious”? Who was her insane Jamacian lover Mr. Stone?
The book The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740-1840 offers a little background to the Netterville family namely that Catherine Netterville (1712-84) was the daughter of Samuel Burton (1687-1733) of Burton Hall, Co. Carlow.
A. P. W. Malcomson, The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740-1840 (Belfast, 2006), p. 12
I then was able to find out that Catherine Netterville married Nicholas, 5th Viscount Netterville who died in 1750.
Sir Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 392
After that, the online trail went dead. I quickly found out why. Catherine Netterville also has been referred to as Katherine.
The story then begins to unravel. It would appear that Catherine (Katherine), in her later life, was a famous Dublin prostitute.
In describing the rise of Margaret (Peg) Plunkett (a.k.a Mrs. Leeson), “the best-known brothel-keeper of eighteenth-century” Dublin it is said that she outmanouvered “established women like Katherine Netterville, alias Kitty ‘Cut-A-Dash'”[1] and Netterville has been described as her “earliest rival”[2]
Kirsten Pullen is able to describe in more detail, the relationship between Mrs. Leeson and Katherine Netterville:
Kirsten Pullen, Actresses and whores: on stage and in society (Cambridge, 2005), p. 78
So, I think I’ve discovered why Mrs. Netterville was described as “notorious” but who was Mr. Stone? If anyone has any information, do leave a comment or email me.
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[1] Unknown, Irish economic and social history, Volumes 31-32, 2004. Available here.
[2] Margaret Leeson, The memoirs of Mrs Leeson (Unknown, 1995) ed. Mary Cecelia Lyons, p. xiii
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I’m really, really excited about the FAI Cup clash later today between Saint Patrick’s Athletic and Shamrock Rovers. For us, it offers a chance to get something out of this season, and a trophy is long overdue in Inchicore. The incredible support we brought to Tallaght for the Setanta Cup Final against Bohs was an indication of the desire that is there among the rank and filers, and clashes with Rovers never dissappoint. For the most part, they’ve come out on top this year.
It offers my first trip to Tallaght on the Luas, with the car being used elsewhere. Our ticket sales indicate an excellent travelling support too, and no stadium in the league has matched the vocal support Shamrock Rovers fans produce for their team. I have rarely seen them silenced, though the last time I did was a two nil Pats victory there. I’d take the same today.
The real question however is not who will win the cup, but rather will we see another of these?
Pete Mahon’s comments in advance of this one are very interesting too, and he raises a good point regarding the venue and date.
Home ground does give teams an unfair advantage and I don’t see anything wrong with playing games like these in neutral venues – tonight’s game (Bohemians V Sligo) could easily have been played in Tallaght and our game could have been played in Dalymount.
It would also have made more sense to have played tonight’s game on Sunday to accommodate travelling supporters from Sligo with our all-Dublin game being played on a Friday night”
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Last night myself and hxci popped down to the They Are Us exhibition for a looksie, and to support an excellent cause. Getting there at 5.15 or so, we were well ahead of time and ended up carrying sambos up the stairs with a woman who told us “you’s will get your reward in the next life lads”.
We got a sneak peak on this trek up the stairs however, and a huge image of James Connolly which dominates the first room of a three room exhibition had us dying to see more. We resisted, and went to The Cobblestone. Oisin, a friend who completed the trio, went for a wander around the exhibition like a child who finds all the presents on Christmas Eve. He then came to the pub and told us all about it.
Enjoy the snaps, but get down to the exhibition in Smithfield. The aim is ambitious, €30,000 for the Simon Community. You can pick up one of the four prints you’ll see below here for €25, or €50 signed. It runs tomorrow, and more details are available on the site here. Lets hope they make the €30,000, and the rest.
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