Come Here to Me! Volume 2
More Unexplored Dublin Histories
Published on 15. September 2017
324 pages
978-1-84840-634-6 (ISBN)
Description
Donal, Sam and Ciaran from the hugely popular blog Come Here To Me! are back with a brand-new collection of fascinating, surprising, and little-known tales from the hidden history of Dublin, Ireland's often weird and always wonderful capital city.
In a history book that looks at things from a different angle, Come Here To Me! Vol. 2 celebrates an unexplored Dublin: its public duels and street gangs, suffragettes and drag queens, as well as its not-so-secret gay bars and failed vegetarian societies. It looks at the people the city has chosen to remember and the places it has decided to forget (or worse, allowed to be turned into a Starbucks).
With fresh, new perspectives on the lives and histories of the city, Come Here To Me! Vol. 2 is a history book like no other . . .
In a history book that looks at things from a different angle, Come Here To Me! Vol. 2 celebrates an unexplored Dublin: its public duels and street gangs, suffragettes and drag queens, as well as its not-so-secret gay bars and failed vegetarian societies. It looks at the people the city has chosen to remember and the places it has decided to forget (or worse, allowed to be turned into a Starbucks).
With fresh, new perspectives on the lives and histories of the city, Come Here To Me! Vol. 2 is a history book like no other . . .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
File size
7,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84840-634-6 (9781848406346)
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Donal Fallon | Sam McGrath | Ciaran Murray
Come Here to Me!: More Unexplored Dublin Histories: Vol 2
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09/2017
New Island Books
€37.35
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Persons
Donal Fallon is a Dublin-based historian. Previous publications include a biography of Major John MacBride (O'Brien, 2015) and a history of the Nelson Pillar (New Island, 2014).
Sam McGrath is a Dublin-based archivist and historian. He is currently employed on a project to process and catalogue the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection. Combining his love of music and history, he has worked on archival projects with U2, the Joe Strummer foundation and The Atrix. He has recently published articles on Arthur Wicks (a Norwich-born socialist killed in action in the 1916 Easter Rising) and Jack Prendergast (a Dubliner who fought with the Basque Army in the Spanish Civil War).
Ciaran Murray is a Mullingar native, but has been living in Dublin since 2001, when he came here to study for a degree in English and Philosophy in UCD. His main topics of interest include Dublin's revolutionary history, street characters and ever-changing landscape. He has contributed to The College Tribune, Rabble and History Ireland.
Sam McGrath is a Dublin-based archivist and historian. He is currently employed on a project to process and catalogue the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection. Combining his love of music and history, he has worked on archival projects with U2, the Joe Strummer foundation and The Atrix. He has recently published articles on Arthur Wicks (a Norwich-born socialist killed in action in the 1916 Easter Rising) and Jack Prendergast (a Dubliner who fought with the Basque Army in the Spanish Civil War).
Ciaran Murray is a Mullingar native, but has been living in Dublin since 2001, when he came here to study for a degree in English and Philosophy in UCD. His main topics of interest include Dublin's revolutionary history, street characters and ever-changing landscape. He has contributed to The College Tribune, Rabble and History Ireland.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Indice
- Dedications and Thanks
- A Divided Rathmines
- Drunken Vagabonds and Lawless Desperadoes
- A Forgotten Tragedy on Hammond Lane, 1878
- From Grandeur to Ruin: the Story of Sarah Curran's Home in Rathfarnham
- Admiral William 'Guillermo' Brown
- A Planned Massacre on Grafton Street, June 1921
- Doran's of Castlewood Avenue
- Dublin's First Gay-Friendly Bars
- A Spectre is Haunting Ballyfermot: the 1952 Co-op Scandal
- A Dublin Reimagined
- Interview with Paul Cleary of The Blades
- 'Fortress Fownes' and the Story of the Hirschfeld Centre
- Daniel O'Connell's Last Duel
- The Four Corners of Hell: a Junction with Four Pubs in the Liberties
- John 'Spike' McCormack
- De Valera and the 'Indian Priest'
- Feuding Unions and Mills' Bombs
- Arthur Horner: the Welsh Refusenik of the Irish Citizen Army
- Before Monto, There Was Grafton Street
- Max Levitas: Jewish Dubliner and Working-Class Hero
- The Christmas Monster 'Kohoutek' and the Children of God
- The Rabble and the Custom House
- Remembering Pawel Edmund Strzelecki
- 18 Aungier Street: from Neighbourhood Local to Cocktail Bar
- The Proclamation and William Henry West
- Antonin Artaud, the Staff of Saint Patrick, and a Trip to Mountjoy Prison
- Before Panti, There Was Mr Pussy
- Historic Dublin Pub the White Horse is Now a Starbucks
- 'Severity for Suffragettes', Dublin 1912
- Konrad Peterson: Latvian Revolutionary and Pioneering Civil Engineer
- The Shooting of Thomas Farrelly in the Markets
- Bull-Baiting in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
- From McDaid's to the Summer of Love: the Mysterious Emmett Grogan
- Edward Smyth's Moving Heads
- Lesser-Known Dublin Jewish Radicals
- Herbert Simms and the 1930s War on Slumdom
- Who or What Is a 'Jackeen'?
- The Gunrunner in the Four Courts
- Connolly and Dublin Anarchists
- The Bolsheveki Bookies
- Bona Fides, Kips, and Early Houses
- Leaving Her Mark on Kildare Street: the Work of Gabriel Hayes
- The Crimean Banquet, 22 October 1856
- Oscar Wilde, Speranza and the Young Irelanders
- Tommy Wood, the Youngest Irish Spanish Civil War Fatality
- Stalin's Star: the Unwelcome Orson Welles
- The Former Life of a Talbot Street Internet Café
- Dublin's First Vegetarian Restaurants
- Dublin's Historic Breweries: Watkins' of Ardee Street
- The 'Denizens of the Slums' Who Looted Dublin
- The Pagan O'Leary and John's Lane Church
- Number 10 Mill Street, Blackpitts
- You'll Never Walk Alone: Heffo's Army and the Question of What to Do With Them
- The Humours of Donnybrook
- Keep Rovers at Milltown
- Select Bibliography
