Free to a good home.

Great stuff from the Mad Art gallery on Lower Gardiner Street. Every first Saturday of each month MadArt Gallery will leave a small painting or a sketch with a note “PLEASE TAKE ME” on the pink bike just beside the door. Whoever will be passing this place is allowed to take the art work with [...]

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La revolte en Irlande! May 1916.

I absolutely love this, a recent pick-up. It is a copy of J’ai Vu (I Saw) magazine from just after rebellion in Dublin, dated May sixth. Of course at that point in time executions were still taking place. Great info on J’ai Vu is available here: ‘J’ai Vu’ (‘I Saw’ or ‘I Was an Eyewitness’) [...]

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Jerry Dammers in the Button Factory tonight.

The legendary Jerry Dammers pops into The Button Factory tonight to play a free DJ set, kicking off at 8pm. Of course Jerry was controversially missing from the recently re-united Specials, and has instead continued to tour independently and alongside the Spatial A.K.A Orchestra. His collection of vinyl records means tonight could be a great [...]

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Autobop gets the Youtube treatment

I’ve previously written about 1980s Dublin New Wave band Autobop and specifically their one and only fantastic 1983 single Secrets with boasts an even stronger b-side Advertising. Now, their guitarist and vocalist Damien Callaghan (aka Damien O’Ceallachain) has uploaded some great footage of the band onto Youtube. Enjoy.

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On the airwaves.

Just a quick note this morning to say I’ll be filling in for Tommy Graham (History Ireland editor) today on Sean Moncrieff’s programme on Newstalk at 3pm. The programme features a brief history slot, and I’m going to be discussing an aspect of Dublin history that should interest many: Dublin of the 1930s, and in [...]

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The story of the GBS plaque

Today’s Irishman’s Diary tells the fascinating story about how the plaque on George Bernard Shaw’s birthplace on Synge Street was erected, not by the city council, but by a devoted fan and local bin man. “The other dustman in Shaw’s life was Patrick O’Reilly, who emptied dustbins around the Synge Street area for 40 years [...]

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Everlasting Lo.. Oh wait its grand

You come across some crackers scribbled up on bathroom walls in this city, but the above will take some beating in my book. By my reckoning its the same hand for both the initial teary lament and the sardonic after thought after the poor bloke got his rock-and-roll. Brilliant. Only a couple of pictures today, I [...]

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Northside/Southside.

Great stuff from Maser at Kings Of Concrete.

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“Eddie Gormley for the Irish team, the crowd they were a-chanting”

Well done to YouTuber kdjac for this effort, putting Saintmania and other Saint Patrick’s Athletic songs of old on YouTube where they belong for younger fans who might not have encountered these gems before. I’d heard friends sing Saintmania before (and eh…..more commonly after) matches in the pubs of Inchicore but I’d never managed to [...]

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Punch cartoons on Ireland, 1920.

Much more where these came from friends, but consider this the first in a series of posts on Punch cartoons from London in 1920, detailing Irish political affairs. I came into posession of a good sized collection of originals recently and intend to scan them up here to the site. They deal with a wide [...]

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Dublin rarely looks this cool.

Great stuff this from the Dirty Dubsters. Even NAMAland down by the IFSC looks well. Much more where this came from on the Dirty Dubsters Soundcloud page, enjoy.

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DiFontaines in three words- nom, nom and nom

I don’t have much to say about the accompanying pictures except anyone I’ve taken into DiFontaines on Parliament Street (and there have been quite a few, I’m pretty much in love with the place) has left there feeling like they’ve just eaten the best pizza in the city. And they’d be right in feeling so. [...]

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