‘Come here to me’ is Dublin slang used to mean “Listen to this” or “I’ve something to tell you”. These phrases tend to imply a secretiveness or revelatory importance to the upcoming piece of information.
Come Here To Me! is a group blog that focuses on the life and culture of Dublin city. Music, history, football, politics and pub crawls all feature, along with much more.
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Authors:
Jay Carax (Sam) is a recent UCD History graduate. His main research interests are the radical history of UCD, international connections to the Easter Rising and the social history of Dublin (particularly 70s/80s youth culture). Carax likes to think he’s a good poker player, occasionly puts on gigs and lives in a nondescript south Dublin housing estate. If you wish, you can drop him a mail at matchgrams(at)gmail(dot)com
D Fallon (Donal Ó Fallúin) writes mainly on his two passions, the social history of the Irish capital and the beautiful game that is League of Ireland football. He is a Saint Patrick’s Athletic supporter of good west Dublin (and south of the river) origins. He works with Historical Insights providing tours of the capital, and has written on the history of Dublin for a variety of outlets including History Ireland, Red Pepper, the Sunday Independent and elsewhere, as well as appearing on Newstalk and RTE radio discussing the history of Dublin. He is currently researching youth criminality in 1930′s Dublin, focusing in particular on gang culture. You can judge his musical tastes here, at his Last.FM Every few days he manages to log in to donal.ofalluin.2009@nuim.ie
hXci (Ciarán Ó’Muireadhaigh) is the only non-native on the CHTM! team; don’t hold it against him. He’s been living in Dublin since 2001, when he moved here to study a degree in English and Philosophy in UCD. His main interests lie in social and political history, Irish music and literature, and, like the other two, League of Ireland football, in particular Bohemian FC. He also has a penchant for wandering the streets of Dublin with his camera, taking the most random of shots. He lives within sight of the Ha’penny Bridge, on the Northside of course. Should anyone feel the need to contact him, you can give him a shout at ci_murray (at) hotmail.com
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Good reading, lads. Enjoyed most of the pubs on yer list 1st hand, but you’ve whetted my appetite for some I’ve so far neglected. Look forward to more instalments.
Danger of a bit of Dub chauvinism in claiming Come Here to Me as Dublin slang? It can be heard in Cork too as in Jimmy Crowley’s rendition of Johnny Jump Up – “Come here to me boy, Can’t you see I’m the law, Well I upped with me fist, And I shattered his jaw”.
I wonder is it an import from the Gaeilge? Tar anseo chugam? I’ll check that out and get back to ye!
Yep. My friends on acmhainn.ie tell me there’s every chance that Come here to me is an import from the Gaeilge. Goitse, Gabh i leith chugam, Gabh thusa anseo are all variations meaning basically Come here to me in Irish. The question now is did it come from Irish to English or vice versa … or had the Normans or the Vikings a hand in it?!
Hi Lads,
Enjoyed very much your contribution about Liam Weldon. You can find an album of photographs about Liam on http://www.myspace.com/polhuellou
I also recommend to you to check the version of James Connolly on http://www.myspace.com/manuelmarchès
Great stuff !
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Please.
Please for the love of all that’s good and just and moral and sane.
Please, I fucking hold my hands up in supplication and beggance whether that’s a word or not, I fucking beg of you, please get rid of those wordpress snapshot horrors. Afterwards, please find the person who deemed them reasonable in the first place and beat them around the ears. I plead so so grovellingly.
You are killing your website with this evil terror.
Great site lads, I’ll be back for a deeper delve.
I stumbled onto your site when I was googling images of the Mary Mediatrix store in O’Connell Street! What a referral
Really like what I read, keep up the good work!
Cheers Kate, had a look on your blog there, good stuff!
Great site, do keep up the good work. Its important to keep unearthing little historical artefacts relating to the history of B.A.C. that might otherwise be lost forever. I have a few pieces meself that I must copy and post into your site.
The reason why I want to comment is to ask about the title of this site, ‘’Come Here To Me’’ Don’t mean to rain on your parade or be negative or too critical on such a good web site, but ‘Come Here To Me’ is really a slow clearly spoken line from Dublin 4. A real Dub would say Cum mere te me, Dubliners tend to fuse words together. They speak fast as if they are always in a hurry, maybe that’s why they fuse the words together.
Cheers for the comment Thomas.
A real Dub would say Cum mere te me, Dubliners tend to fuse words together. They speak fast as if they are always in a hurry, maybe that’s why they fuse the words together.
Ah, we knew that of course. But for the benefit of an easily remembered blog name and for sake of people trying to find it who aren’t from Dublin, we decided to go with the simple Come Here To Me!
“Dublin 4″
Never heard of it
Fair point Mr Jay, slainte.
Mr F, I wish I never heard of it either
Just discovered the site lads. I am a Dublin tour guide, 4th generation Dubliner who is always on the look out for new facts and stores. Love the Volonel story, especially relevant with that War Horse film coming out. My mother’s family came from Longmeadows in Old Kilmainham so will be delving into the site for more info about that area. Pauline
Anyone where Everton Terrace between Glasnevin and NCR was? Is it gone or renamed? It’s in both 1901 and 1911 census.
I have found an autographed B&W photo of Irish Tenor Danny Malone in my late Grandmothers photos/papers. I believe she may have got this when she saw him in Australia in the 1930′s?? Would like to maybe get this to any family he may have left if they are interested. would like any help in getting in touch with them or anyone close if possible. is only a small photo but it may have some sentimental value. I will keep a copy, in my Nanna’s memories, but am happy to give the family the original. thank you.
Hi, my name is Michael Johnston, and I have noted that you have a signed photograph of Danny Malone that you wish to pass to his family.
Danny was born John Johnston in Belfast, Ireland and Danny Malone was his stage name. He was brother (2 years younger) to my Grand Father Robert Johnston, and although he died drunk and penniless, he is still family. When my father passed, he asked for two things, first to be carried out of the house feet first, and second to have Danny sing Danny Boy at the service. Both were carried out to our happiness. I am willing to pass along more information to you about how he is related to our family, so please contact me via e mail so we can discuss this further. My uncle would be very happy to know we have a photo in our possession.
Sincerely,
Michael Johnston
Calgary, Canada
Hey guys we are coming to Dublin for a Study Visit with 10 of us in total and we’d love to have a chance to take a walk round ‘Radical Dublin’. Please get back to me if one of you is able to do this for us. Our dates are 1-2-3-4-5 April 2012. Thanks – it would be great esp. on the Sunday evening or Monday evening.
Hi Helen!
I give occasional tours on the topic with the ‘Historical Insights’ company, they’re available at http://www.historicalinsights.ie