Come Here to Me! E-Book

Donal Fallon

• Herausgeber: New Island
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

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 Ciarán 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.

Leseprobe

Come HereTo Me!

Come hereTo me!

Dublin’s Other History

Donal Fallon,

Sam McGrath,

Ciarán Murray

COME HERE TO ME!

First published 2012

by New Island

2 Brookside

Dundrum Road

Dublin 14

www.newisland.ie

Copyright © Donal Fallon, Sam McGrath, Ciarán Murray, 2012

The author has asserted his moral rights.

PRINT ISBN: 978-1-84840-197-6

EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84840-198-3

MOBI ISBN: 978-1-84840-199-0

All rights reserved. The material in this publication is protected by copyright law. Except as may be permitted by law, no part of the material may be reproduced (including by storage in a retrieval system) or transmitted in any form or by any means; adapted; rented or lent without the written permission of the copyright owner.

British Library Cataloguing Data. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

New Island received financial assistance from

The Arts Council (An Comhairle Ealaíon), Dublin, Ireland

Dedications

Donal

To my parents, for teaching me the value of history and culture, and to my brother Luke for his friendship and knowledge.

Sam

To my dear grandparents Peggy and Des, both 92 years young, who continue to act as a constant source of support and guidance. Their loving home has been a sanctuary and a source of stability and love.

Ciarán

To my late father, who instilled in me and everyone he met the virtue of common decency. My hero, always.

CHTM! Thanks

Eoin Purcell and all at New Island Books for having faith in us.

All readers of Come Here To Me! and in particular those who comment and engage with the site.

Those who contributed content to this book: Paul Reynolds, Luke Fallon, Mice Hell, Paul Duffy, Donal Mangan, Michael Costelloe, Matthew Lloyd, John Davies, Graham Hickey, Sebastian Dooris, and Mick Morgan.

Rabble, DCTV, Storymap, Look Left magazine, The Irish Story, Irish History Podcast, Poster Fish Promotions, Garry at Where Were You?, Joe Mooney and all in the East Wall History Group, Conor and all at Dublin Opinion, Tommy Graham and all at History Ireland, Lorcan Collins and all at the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour, Shane MacThomais and all at Glasnevin, Barrygruff, the National Library of Ireland, Ciaran and all at Cedar Lounge Revolution, Irish Election Literature Blog, The North Inner-City Folklore Project, Mary Clarke and all at Dublin City Archives, Shane and all at Cheebah, Orla at Jacolette, Lisa at Builtdublin, all at Kilmainham Gaol Museum and Archives, Ray Bateson at Irishgraves.com, all at saintsforum.net and thebohs.com.

Cian O’Callaghan, John Breslin, Wally Cassidy, Padraig Yeates, Franc Myles, Maser, Damien Dempsey, Brian Hanley, Brian Whelan, Kevin Squires, Freda Mullin Hughes, FXR, Póló, Eoin O’Mahony, Mark Grehan, Scott Millar, Alan MacSimoin, Thomas McCarthy, Fin Dwyer, Padraic Stack, Aileen O’Carroll, Richie McCormack, Kevin Brannigan, James Redmond, Angela Nagle, Andrew Flood, Barry Lennon, Tony Brophy, Paul Guinan, Dara McHugh, Oisin Gilmore, Dave Smith, John Flood, Hamada Abdalla, Mark Hoskins, Luke O’Riordain, Jimmy Dignam, Neil Dunne.

All of the CHTM! pub crawl irregulars.

Donal Thanks: My parents, Las and Maria. Luke for his endless energy and support. Aoife for putting up with me! All in the family tree for encouragement. All who have helped track down pictures and information, in particular James Langton and Terry Fagan and others who have built remarkable collections. All at Saint Patrick’s Athletic F.C. The SEI01 family. Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne and all at UCD History Department. Tommy, Peter and all at Historical Insights. All friends but in particular those who also came from Coláiste Cois Life. All who work on behalf of preserving the heritage of this city, from those in the Dublin Civic Trust to those who collect local histories and build local archives. Lastly, but very importantly, the other two writers of the website and this book.

Sam Thanks: My parents, Billy and Carolyn. All of my family especially Maire, Donal, Michael, Evelyn, John, Carmel, Hugh and Ruth. Ian, Shimbo, Josh, Murray and all the Benildus gang. Neil Duggan. Anyone who has helped me with the blog, particularly Stompin’ George and the Magnet crew, Paul Davis and the Bubbles gang, Elvera Butler and Philip Chevron. Ado and Cieran Perry, Stew, Worries Outernational, Diarmuid Ferriter, Weeler and Bea. Sandra for sparking my interest in history. Everyone at the Irish Labour History Museum, the People’s History Museum, the Digital Repository of Ireland and the M.A. Archives & Record Management course in UCD. Finally, the other two lads from the blog as life would be quite boring without them.

Ciaran Thanks: Donal and Sam, without whom CHTM! would be nothing and I’d be lost. Friends, not least Ciarán Mangan, Dunster, Julian Brophy, Maz Flynn, Jim Scully, Dixie and Damo Morris. All at Bohemian F.C. and in particular the NBB lads. All in CCH. Katrin and Barra. All those I’ve ever shared a pint with in Brogan’s on Dame St., Cassidy’s on Westmoreland St. or Clarke’s Bar in Mullingar. Dec, Suz, Cathal and Lucy. Carrie, Kieran, Aaron, Kevin, Brín and Connor. Emer, Marc and Ray. Richie, Anna and Max. Liam, Liz and Noah. The extended Murray and Coleman clans. And last, but far from least, Mum, for bringing me into this world, putting up with me and being there for me through good times and bad.

‘This graveyard hides a million secrets,

And the trees know more than they can tell.

The ghosts of the saints and the scholars will haunt you,

In heaven and in hell ...

You’re a history book which I never could write,

Poetry in paralysis, too deep to recite.

So dress yourself, bless yourself, you’ve won the fight,

We’re gonna celebrate tonight.’

–Philip Chevron (The Radiators From Space.)

‘Song of the Faithful Departed’ from Ghostown (1979), Courtesy of Rockin’ Music

‘Dublin is Ireland in miniature; nay, Dublin is Ireland in concentrated essence. All that makes Ireland great or miserable, magnificent or squalid, ideally revolutionary or hopelessly reactionary, grandly unselfish or vilely treacherous, is stronger and more pronounced in Dublin than elsewhere in Ireland.’

–James Connolly, Labour in Irish History (1910)

‘The Liffey cuts the City like a meandering blue vein.

Ancient poetry echoes in soft rain down the lanes’

– Grafitti, North Wall Dublin.

(Maser, words from Damien Dempsey (2010)

Contents

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.   это Дублин! (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

1.

Dublin’s Newsboys of Old

The newspaper boys of the capital have entered its folklore, remembered as the lovable, shoeless, cheeky gurriers of a time past. In reality, the newsboys of Dublin were once a sizeable and precarious working-class presence in the capital who, on various occasions in Dublin’s past, found themselves the focus of charitable and political organisations, who saw them as a potentially dangerous underclass in some cases, or as youths in need of guidance.