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Some notes on history of Vegetarianism in Dublin Pt. II (1933 – 1996)
(In terms of food history, we’ve previously looked at the city’s oldest restaurants, the first Chinese restaurants, the first Italian restaurants, the first pizzerias and the first Indian restaurants)...
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Irish Archives and History Projects on Facebook
As part of background research for my dissertation, I am trying to collate a list of Irish archives/museums and community/individual history projects that have an active Facebook page and post...
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Post Punk Party in Grand Social this Friday
Strange Passion, 31 May 2013 Three Irish Post Punk bands return to the stage this Friday after a 30 year hiatus following the release of critically acclaimed compilation Strange Passion in 2012. The...
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Reactionary murders in Ireland
There have been a small but not insignificant number of reactionary murders in Dublin and on the island of Ireland since the 1920s. I have tried to compile a list of these here. They are divided up...
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Postcard views of Dublin
Many thanks to Mick Healy for sending these on. ‘Postcard views of Dublin’ O’Connell St College Green Parnell Monument St. Stephen’s Green
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Photos from the 1970 funeral of Liam Walsh (Saor Eire)
On 13 October 1970 Saor Eire member Liam Walsh, a welder and fitter by trade and father of four, was killed in a premature explosion when himself and another member Martin Casey were planting a device...
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Sweeney Todd’s – Dublin Hairdresser (late 1970s/early 80s)
Sweeney Todd advertisement (nd) Sweeney Todd’s was a unisex hairdresser based over Dunnes Stores at 10 Exchequer Street, just off South Great George’s Street and opposite the Central Hotel. It did a...
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Women’s History event in the Liberties – 29th & 30th June
’24hr Community’, a NCAD art collective formed earlier this year, and the ‘May Day for Thomas St.’ initiative have joined forces to temporarily take over two vacant buildings on Thomas St. for the...
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Don’t Vote For The Red O’Riordan: 1971 RTÉ Report with Michael O’Riordan
A fantastic twenty-seven minute documentary from RTÉ on Cork-born Michael O’Riordan. He is described by presenter Patrick Gallagher as a “respectable middle-aged leader of our respectable middle-aged...
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The Atrix (Top Hat, 1982)
Hot Press advert for a series of Atrix gigs in the Project Arts Centre in 1980. Credit – u2theearlydayz.com Irish Times journalist John Fleming has recently uploaded a 30mins broadcast from Dublin New...
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Philip Chevron Testimonial Concert – 24 August, Olympia Theatre
Tickets (€30) are now on sale for Philip Chevron’s (The Radiators from Space & The Pogues) Testimonial Concert. Philip revealed last month that the cancer he has battled since 2007 has become...
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Italia ’90 – Dublin and League of Ireland connections
Last month, a Youtube user uploaded the 94 minute documentary ‘Que Sera Sera’ which traced the Republic of Ireland’s historical path to Italia ’90 and their first ever World Cup Finals. A family member...
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Issue 16 of Look Left out now
Our bi-monthly update letting our readers know about the publication of the latest issue of Look Left. Available for €2 in Easons and other newsagents, issue 16 includes articles on: POLITICAL FOOTBALL...
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Launch of ‘Defying the law of the land: Agrarian radicals in Irish history’
Dr Daire Keogh, President of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra will launch the book ‘Defying the law of the land: Agrarian radicals in Irish history’ (ed. Brian Casey) tomorrow evening (Friday) at...
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Proposed expansion to Irish Jewish Museum
An artist’s impression of the proposed new Irish Jewish Museum in Portobello, Dublin, which would involve demolishing five houses and building a two-storey-over-basement museum incorporating a cafe,...
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Some notes on the history of Lebanese restaurants in Dublin
Note 1: Previously we’ve looked at the city’s oldest restaurants, the first Chinese restaurants, the first Italian restaurants, the first pizzerias and the first Indian restaurants. Ireland’s first...
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Recent pieces on Philip Chevron
Phillip Chevron at McGonagle’s. Photo – Patrick Brocklebank. (From ‘u2theearlydayz.com’) January 1979. In the run up to Philip Chevron’s testimonial tomorrow night, a number of pieces have been...
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Joseph O’Connor – Poem for Philip Chevron
Acclaimed novelist Joseph O’Connor, from Glenageary in Dublin, who won international acclaim with ‘Star of the Sea’ (2002) and ‘Redemption Falls’ (2006) wrote a special poem for Philip Chevron’s...
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The Red Bank Restaurant –‘Irish Nazi watering hole’
The Red Bank Restaurant (19-20 D’Olier Street) was one of the city’s most famous and long-running restaurants, open from 1845 – 1969. Culinary historian Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire wrote that it was:...
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Joyriding in Interwar Dublin
The word ‘joyrider’ is of North American origin and became popular as a term in Britain and Ireland in the early 1910s. It was defined as a ‘ride at high speed’ and initially applied to all those who...
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