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Bona-Fides, Kips and Early-Houses
Three lads drinking, nd. (Credit – Jacolette blog) If you knew where to go, it was possible to drink around the clock in 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Dublin. When regular pubs closed at 11pm, still-thirsty...
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Hotel Bereford and the Seafarer’s Club
3 Beresford Place, behind the Custom House on Dublin’s Northside, boasts an interesting history. As a hotel from the 1930s to the mid 1940s, it was a popular meeting place for gay men in the capital....
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Incidents in Dublin during the Troubles (1969-1994)
An attempt to collate a chronological list of all the major incidents in Dublin during the conflict in the North. If I have missed any, please leave a comment. 1969 5 August - The UVF plant their first...
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Tommy Wood, youngest Irish Spanish Civil War fatality
Thomas ‘Tommy’ Wood (1919-1936), aged just seventeen, was the youngest Irish volunteer to fight and die with the International Brigades. A Dubliner from a staunch Republican family, he left for Spain...
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Issue 18 of Look Left out now
Front cover of Look Left, Issue 18. Issue 18 of Look Left is available now for €2 in Easons and other newsagents. I genuinely think this is the best issue in the last while. Highlights: The interview...
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Violence and the Dublin live music scene (1977 – 1988)
All you punks and all you teds National Front and Natti dreds Mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads Keep on fighting ’till you’re dead Talking to Come Here To Me!, Garry O’Neill (editor of Dublin street...
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Two important fundraisers this weekend
Friday 2nd May (The Black Sheep, 8pm – 1am. €10 entry) The Stoneybatter & Smithfield People’s History Project are hosting a night downstairs in The Black Sheep (61 Capel Street) to raise funds for...
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Mural in Dublin unveiled to anti-Apartheid activist Marius Schoon
A mural dedicated to South African anti-Apartheid activist Marius Schoon, who lived in Dublin for several years, was unveiled last week in the new offices of Comhlámh at 12 Parliament Street. It was...
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Migrants and Irish politics
Edmond Lukusa, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, has made history by becoming Dublin’s first elected Black Politician. Representing Sinn Féin in the Mulhuddart ward of Fingal...
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A stroll through Temple Bar (June 2014)
A few snaps with my trusty camera phone while having a mooch around Temple Bar yesterday. Prince’s Lane is the first lane on the right as you head down Fleet Street into Temple Bar from Westmoreland...
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Dublin’s connection to the first German spy to be executed in WW1
Lody in Naval uniform. Credit – pinterest.com It was reported today in the Daily Mail (sorry for the link but they’re the only news service covering the story) that a letter written by Carl Hans Lody...
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The IRA memorial in Ballsbridge
Front view of the Ballsbridge IRA memorial. Credit – Sam (CHTM!) A stones throw away from a US Embassy is an odd location for a memorial to a revolutionary guerrilla army. But this is the case for the...
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Exchange of ideals and blows: The Westland Row church prayer-in of August 1968
Article on ‘Grille’ from Trinity News (31 October 1968) On the 27th of August 1968, a group of left-wing Christians were attacked and harassed by local parishioners in St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row...
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RTÉ ‘Visual Eyes’ Paul Cleary special (1987)
In 1987, RTÉ broadcast three half-an-hour specials of the music show ‘Visual Eyes’. Slotted between a behind-the-scenes look at U2 playing Modena, Italy and an extended one-on-one interview with David...
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Unlikely allies at the first ever public LGBT demo in Ireland
In San Francisco in 1973, gay activist Harvey Milk successfully petitioned gay bars in the Castro District to stop selling Coors beer. This was in response to an appeal from the Teamsters union who...
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The Four Corners of Hell : A junction of four pubs in the Liberties
The Four Corners of Hell was the colloquial name given to the junction where New Street, Patrick’s Street, Kevin’s Street and Dean Street met in The Liberties, Dublin 8. In the shadow of St. Patrick’s...
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The New Versions – Like Gordon of Khartoum (1981)
The New Versions: Bibby, Moylett, Kiang & Byrne in 1978. Credit – Irishrock.org Thirty-three years after its release, a rare and essential Dublin New Wave single has finally made it online. The New...
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Number 10 Mill Street, Blackpitts
An application has been submitted to Dublin City Council to build a 400-bed student residence on an empty 2.5 acre site in Mill Street (formerly Tanner’s Alley) in the historic South Inner city area of...
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CHTM! Christmas Books of the Year 2014
With Christmas just around the corner, we look at some of the best Irish and Dublin history books published this year. Apologises about the short reviews but I wanted to ensure this list was out...
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Dun Laoghaire bids farewell to fish-selling Queen
Vera Breslin (née Shortall), a great-grandmother and sixth generation street seller of fish in Dun Laoghaire, has passed away. Her death marks the end of an era leaving few, if any, old-style Dublin...
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