Newspaper clippings from the day after Nelson’s farewell.

Occasionally, you pick up something nice along the way. About a year and a half ago I bought a large collection of newspaper clippings at an antiques fair in town, for buttons basically. A varied bunch, they included snaps from the 1966 Easter anniversary events, snaps of Dev doing his thing in the 1970s, photos [...]

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Garda History Museum- Dublin Castle

Garda Museum and Archives Opening Hours:9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday Dublin Castle Record Tower. The Garda History Museum is one of individuals, as much as of the force. Michael Staines was an interesting Volunteer. The son of an RIC man, he was the Quartermaster General within the General Post Office in 1916. When sent [...]

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“Burst the banks of the Liffey, and we owned the city….”

Walking around the city, enjoying these rare days of sun. F.C Sankt Pauli are a German soccer team, recently promoted to the Bundesliga, with an international following. The clubs supporters are widely respected for their dedication and passion. This sticker is at the Ha’penny Bridge traffic lights, along with other left-leaning football stickers. The team [...]

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Support Your (Really) Local Football Club

Geography dictated that I would be a Saint Patrick’s Athletic supporter. As a youngster, I remember my Dad couldn’t walk too far in the stadium without spotting a neighbour from Palmerstown, or the older days in Ballyfermot. This Is(n’t) England, you’d be a laughing stock if a Galway youngster decided he or she was a [...]

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Dublin Punk & New Wave Venues (1976-84)

Continuing my research into the social history of Dublin youth subcultures in the 1970s and 1980s, I’ve been trying to compile a comprehensive list of venues that were used for punk and new wave gigs from c. 1976 – 1984. Name / Address / Status Baggot Inn (Baggot Street. Still there but unrecognisable) Dandelion Market [...]

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I like NAMA but I couldn’t eat a full one.

Spotted in the window of Foleys Pub on Merrion Row. The pub is literally a stones-throw (Careful now, we might get there yet) from the Department of Finance and the Department of the Taoiseach. Foleys is a cosy little pub worth a look, so often forgotten as Toners, Doheny and Nesbitts and O’ Donoghues all [...]

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You don’t know what you’re doing.

My thanks to one of the lads (CHEERS LUKE!) from thebohs.com for linking to this on our Facebook,after I mentioned it in the match piece below but was unable to locate a snap online. The banners were clear from the far end of the stadium, and on the night they were taken out the stadium [...]

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Another great Maser/ Damo piece.

 Any regular readers will know that we’ve been following the Maser/ Damien Dempsey project very closely; And on Sunday I came across my favourite piece from the project so far. Located between the Point and the Port Tunnel,  and spanning close to fifty feet are the words “Greed is the knife and the scars run [...]

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Seomra Spraoi, Shell HQ and Squats (Dublin Radical Google Map)

A friend of ours Andrew has created this fascinating google map of sites of significance to current and historical radical struggles. While the map covers the whole island, it focuses particularly on Dublin. It’s particularly apt to post in the run up to Sunday’s radical walking tour of the city. The markers are as follows: [...]

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A Random Drop Inn:John Kavanagh’s (Gravediggers), Glasnevin.

As much as I love this pub, I must love reading reviews of this pub even more. It’s amazing how much people, especially younger people, can seem taken aback by the place. The Porterhouse she ain’t. The taps when you walk in are a no nonsense affair. Not quite Henry Ford and the famous “..any [...]

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Three in five.

It’s rare you’ll see a tackle that will horrify a stadium the way Mark Quigley managed to last night. Disgusting is a word that comes to mind instantly. Perhaps ‘Quigo’ couldn’t take the abuse he’d been receiving so lavishly from Saints supporters this season (In fact, even after the Setanta Cup Final was lost, it [...]

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Join us on a walking tour of radical Dublin.

Sunday week, the 30th of May, I will be one of the guides on a walking tour taking in some of the radical history of Dublin city centre. The Walking Tour is taking place as part of the Fifth Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, hosted by the Workers Solidarity Movement. Many of our readers here have a [...]

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