I’m addicted to newspaper archives. From The Times to The Indo and a number of rural papers too, I could spend hours browsing. Sometimes, it’s not the articles that grab your attention but the ads instead. The one above is a classic, and below I’ve added three more. The guinshops are a long gone part of the city, and the rest grabbed my attention for various reasons. I’ve previously scanned up a few from old newspapers I have at home, and there are plenty more on the way.
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Doesn’t take much to lure me to Smithfield, but the very promising They Are Us exhibition is taking place in Block T later on today. Hopefully see you there.
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Arrested Development – Tennessee
I went to the cinema today (You’d nearly need to remortgage your house) and bought a jumper in American Apparel too (same story as the cinema really) , so of course it was only after parting with this money I stumbled across a flyer for an Arrested Development gig in Dublin. Next week. IN DUBLIN!
Arrested Development are one of my favourite hip hop acts, their albums would be up there with MF Doom and The Roots for me, you know those great hip hop albums white people who like indie rock end up owning for no real reason. A late 80s/early 90s act, it’s so often forgotten they scooped a Grammy Award or two and delivered a few U.S top ten singles. They were the anthesis of ‘gangsta rap’ which was on the rise at the time, and their feel good brand of rap was simply timeless. The influence of blues and soul music on the group was always evident, and Mr. Wendel and Tennessee in particular are tunes you still here frequently in clubs today. The group have been on the go once more since 2000, and are a rare thing in music: A reunion that isn’t totally crap.
They play The Button Factory on October 20th, which is next Wednesday.
Oliver Stone, you owe me nine quid.
Arrested Development – Mr. Wendal
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Three old images of Dublin that I’ve come across lately online.
Though the pub has now been replaced by a Chinese restaurant, you can still see the lion above the door. c. 1940s/50s?
A view towards Rathmines from Portobello. Early 19th century?
A rare photograph from the construction of Liberty Hall. c.1962
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So far, there have been three History Ireland Hedge Schools, discussing a wide range of subjects from Red Hugh O’Donnell to the Dublin punk and new wave scenes. These issues have been discussed and debated in a variety of settings, from a tent in Laois during Electric Picnic to a great outdoors session at Phibsboro Library.
The next one takes place this Saturday at 3pm in the RDS as part of the ‘Back To Our Past’ social history exhibition. Among the exhibitors there will be History Ireland themselves, Glasnevin Museum, the Genealogical Society of Ireland and Irish Roots Magazine. There is a ten euro entrance cost on the door, but if you’re crafty there’s a voucher for fiver admission in the current issue of History Ireland.
Anyway, the Hedge School…..
3pm: Daniel O’Connell: Liberator or Demagogue?
Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting the latest in an ongoing series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities. Tommy will be joined by Patrick Geoghegan,TCD and Newstalk’s ‘Talking History’, Kevin Whelan, director, Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD and Shane Mac Thomáis,Glasnevin Trust to discuss the topic: Daniel O’Connell: liberator or demagogue?
Please note: this discussion will take place in the Main Presentation Theatre and NOT the genealogy/family history presentation area.
“His eloquence came down upon the vast assembly like a summer thunder-shower upon a dustyroad”
American civil rights campaigner Frederick Douglass on witnessing an O’ Connell oration.
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God, this fanzine is confusing. Confusing, yet laugh out loud funny on several ocasions.
Should appeal to the Bohs faithful. Loaned to us by Kevin Brannigan and the property of Neil Mulvey, these are sitting in a brown envelope for a while now waiting to go back across the liffey. Must meet that Brannigan for a pint and get them back to their rightful owner.
Previous fanzines posted on Come Here To Me:
Only Fools and Horses (Bohemian F.C)
Hoops Upside Your Head (Shamrock Rovers)
Osam Is Doubtful (Saint Patrick’s Athletic)
A Rough Guide To Dalymount Park 1993
As ever, fullscreen it
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Haven’t seen this one for a while, but it appeared on someones Facebook the other day. Such a strange mix of mates, comrades and Ryan Bloody Tubridy, but it always rises a giggle. Being the only non- Dub on the blog, I probably shouldn’t be spreading a video taking the piss out of my bretheren beyond the pale but, ah well, self- depreciating humour is sometimes the best.
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I’m really enjoying the TG4 Seachtar na Cásca efforts. One by one, an hour will be given to examine the men who signed the 1916 proclamation. So far we’ve seen Thomas Clarke, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett. Plunkett was a man I knew very little about, and while I was very familiar with the other two men the manner in which their stories were presented made for fascinating viewing. Fintan Lane, Diarmaid Ferriter and other historians lend a great hand to the programme, and TG4 continue to use the perfect bilingual approach. Present the show in Irish, and have the experts speak in the language of their own work, be it Irish or English.
Tonight sees Thomas MacDonagh examined. He is, after Connolly, the most interesting of the seven men to me. His role in the foundation of the ASTI Union is so often forgotten, and he moved throughout the Irish literary scene too, immortalised in the beautiful Francis Ledwidge poem ‘Lament for Thomas MacDonagh’ from which this post takes its title. He was appointed a lecturer at UCD in 1911, and in 1914 was central to the foundation of The Irish Theatre in Hardwicke Street.
His translation of The Yellow Bittern remains among my favourite poems.
” The yellow bittern that never broke out
In a drinking bout, might as well have drunk;
His bones are thrown on a naked stone
Where he lived alone like a hermit monk.
O yellow bittern! I pity your lot,
Though they say that a sot like myself is curst —
I was sober a while, but I’ll drink and be wise
For I fear I should die in the end of thirst…..”
The programme will air tonight at 9.30.
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Our friend Orla over at Jacolette found this fantastic photo in a skip on Oxmantown Road. She’s trying to figure out whether it was taken in Dublin and if so, where. Click on the photo below to view the full post.
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Pardon my shadow.
just watched Joe Duffy deliver an amazing story on James connolly for irelands greatest..he has my vote.! If your in ire vote..no 1513717103
-Nicky Byrne from Westlife over on Twitter. With him on board, surely it’s a done deal!
To vote for Connolly text Great3 to 53125.
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Stuck to the noticeboard of Trivia Nightclub (R.I.P Trivia, R.I.P)
You A__ Beautiful, great shopfront just off Grafton Street
Factually correct.
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The good lads from the Alphabet Set have brightened up the Dublin Friday night skyline with ‘Roots Pon De Corner‘, a new night focusing on the best of “vintage roots, revival, rubadub & steppers” based in The Dark Horse Inn beside Tara St. DART station.
Brigadier JC (Roots Factory, Limerick), Tuathal & t-woc (Alphabet Set, Dublin) are the vinyl selectors on hand. Doors open at 8pm and the music winds down at 12:30am, which gives you ample time to head to that birthday/office/emigration party that you have to show your face at.
It’s free admission (you can’t argue with that) and pints are at a very reasonable €4.
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