Come Here to Me!
Dublin's Other History
Published on 8. April 2013
259 pages
978-1-84840-198-3 (ISBN)
Description
In a history book that looks at things from a different angle, Come Here To Me!: Dublin's Other History discusses everything from punk music and stand-up comedy venues to pirate radio stations and drug use in Dublin city. It talks about fire-fighters, newspaper boys, street gangs, gay bars and footballers, as well as our changing attitudes to feminism and sex . . .
Dublin's Social History, as seen through the eyes of these historians, is to be found hidden in the small details everywhere, from the design of its shopfronts to the graffiti scribbled on the walls of its pubs. In this beautifully illustrated hardback, Donal Fallon, Sam McGrath, and Ciaran Murray bring the best of their hugely popular blog, Come Here To Me: Dublin Life & Culture, to a new audience. Bringing a fresh, new perspective to their historical snapshots of the life of Dublin city, the authors have written dozens of new articles for this publication.
The book also features new images, alongside its healthy dose of bizarre and wonderful tales of Dublin's hidden history.
Dublin's Social History, as seen through the eyes of these historians, is to be found hidden in the small details everywhere, from the design of its shopfronts to the graffiti scribbled on the walls of its pubs. In this beautifully illustrated hardback, Donal Fallon, Sam McGrath, and Ciaran Murray bring the best of their hugely popular blog, Come Here To Me: Dublin Life & Culture, to a new audience. Bringing a fresh, new perspective to their historical snapshots of the life of Dublin city, the authors have written dozens of new articles for this publication.
The book also features new images, alongside its healthy dose of bizarre and wonderful tales of Dublin's hidden history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
File size
6,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84840-198-3 (9781848401983)
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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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedications
- CHTM! Thanks
- Contents
- 1. Dublin's Newsboys of Old
- 2. The Dublin Cinema Manager Who Became the Only Irish Prisoner of Dachau
- 3. An unsolved mystery
- the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels
- 4. Downey's strike of Dun Laoghaire - the longest in world history
- 5. The Siege of Connolly House, 1933
- 6. ??? ??????!& (This is Dublin!)
- 7. Bubbles and the Dublin 1980s Mod Scene
- 8. John Mulgrave - The African Boy
- 9. The Animal Gangs and the Battle of Tolka Park
- 10. Vladimir Lenin and the 'Rathmines Accent'
- 11. Lions and Unicorns
- 12. The Murdering Lane- How apt!
- 13. Some of Dublin's oldest graffiti
- 14. Kevin Barry, JFK and Nelson's Pillar
- 15. Dublin's original Punk Venues
- 16. When Dublin Firemen Rushed North
- 17. El Classico has nothing on this
- 18. Thomas Read's: A Missed Opportunity
- 19. Jennie Wyse Power plaque, Henry Street
- 20. The Theatre Royal Hippodrome
- 21. Swastikas and Nazi salutes in Deansgrange Cemetery
- 22. Cloch ós cionn cloiche
- 23. Laps around the Ambassador: Stop Making Sense
- 24. Dublin Mean Time
- 25. Dublin's oldest restaurant
- 26. 1940s Guide Books to Dublin: Two Case Studies
- 27. The Bridges of Dublin City
- 28. Drug Use in Dublin (1964-1972)
- 29. When Loyalists Bombed O'Connell Street
- 30. Early days of Stand-Up comedy in Dublin
- 31. 'A Lunatic Fringe Element' at Richmond Park
- 32. Lady Justice, Dublin Castle
- 33. The mysterious case of Karl Schumann (a.k.a Ashley Shoeman)
- 34. Gordon Banks, World Cup winner and Supersaint
- 35. The Curious Case of Robert C. and the bombing of the Spanish Cultural Institute
- 36. The famous Vonolel, Dublin's War Horse
- 37. Stompin' George and The Magnet
- 38. Grangegorman Military Cemetery
- 39. Stein Opticians
- 40. Raising the red flag over the Rotunda, 1922
- 41. Looking back at The Blades
- 42. Buck Whaley and the Hellfire Club
- 43. Sean Treacy Street
- 44. Lenny Bruce's whirlwind trip to Dublin
- 45. The Free Peace Festival of 1978
- 46. No Sex Shops Please, We're Irish!
- 47. The Viking - Dublin's first Gay pub?
- 48. The Bowl of Light
- 49. Dublin's shortest street
- 50. A Stout and Handy Man
- Dan Donnelly
- 51. Paddy Clare
- the man who took sabbatical to fight Franco
- 52. Flaunting censorship, Irish feminists and Spare Rib in Dublin
- 53. The dangerous pastime of swimming in the Liffey
- 54. UCD in Sudan
- 55. Dublin's oldest hotel
- 56. Marching to Dublin, Maynooth 1916
- 57. Favourite Dublin street name?
- 58. Swastika Laundry (1912-1987)
- 59. Original Pirate Material
- 60. May your love shine a light
- 61. A conversation with Philip Chevron
- 62. The forgotten Captain Ingram.
- 63. When Bovril lit up College Green
- 64. The Tragic Death of Kathleen Wright, Trinity College Dublin.
- 65. Little John & Dublin
- 66. A Historic Junction at Pearse Street
- 67. Dominic Behan, out of the shadow
- 68. The Oak Bar & Crane Lane
- 69. Prince Albert on College Green
- Select Bibliography
