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Chant! Chant! Chant! – Dark Dublin Post-Punk (1979-82)
Chant! Chant! Chant! via irishrock.org Chant! Chant! Chant! were one of the most original and exciting bands to hit Dublin’s post-punk music scene. Active from 1979 to 1982, they played a jilting sort...
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Early Houses of Dublin (2015)
(This was originally featured on our Facebook page which may have been missed by some of our readers. It was hugely successful with 372 likes, 60 comments and 114 shares) There are close to 1,000 pubs...
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Rock against the Referendum 1983
Great find from the Irish Student Movement Research Project who originally uploaded the scanned document onto their Flickr page. It’s a poster for three benefit gigs in September/October 1983 in aid of...
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The Lord Edward and Fallon’s – two Dublin 8 institutions
Thanks to Darragh Doyle and others, we now know more about the rumoured closing earlier this week of two landmark Dublin 8 pubs – The Lord Edward and Fallon’s. Both floors of The Lord Edward pub will...
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Anarchist newspaper Freedom Press sold by a Dublin newsagent in 1916
After nearly 130 years of production, the anarchist newspaper Freedom moved its operations online last year. Sadly unable to sustain a regular printed publication in this era, the East London-based...
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New Youtube archives – Dublin
One million minutes of historical video dating back to 1895 have been uploaded onto YouTube by Associated Press and British Movietone. The digitised archival footage, made up of 550,000 video stories...
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Private Bars and Social Clubs in Dublin
[Note : We have previously looked at the history of bona fide pubs, kips and early houses in the city] There a number of private bars and social clubs in Dublin that cater for different people...
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Max Levitas : 100-year-old Jewish Dubliner and Working Class hero
[Note: Special thanks to Manus and Luke O’Riordan for their photographs, knowledge and continuing friendship] Max Levitas celebrated his 100th birthday this year surrounded by family and friends in...
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Carnsore Point festival poster (1978)
Thanks to Martin on The Atrix Facebook page for taking a high-quality photograph of his original poster for the Carnsore Point anti-Nuclear festival in August 1978. Caransore Point poster, 1978. The...
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Dublin musician Declan McNelis (1953-87) : An appreciation
The first episode of the new RTÉ television series ‘Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly’ featured Christy Moore performing in The Abbey Tavern in Howth in 1980. Playing beside him in the short clip was...
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David Bowie in Dublin (1969-2003)
Legendary English singer and musician David Bowie passed away this morning after an 18 month battle with cancer. As far as we can assert, he played Dublin a total of 18 times. This includes a sizeable...
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From neighbourhood local to cocktail bar : 18 Aungier Street
It is a brisk twenty minute walk from Portobello Bridge to the bottom of South Great George’s Street but on your way into town you pass about 30 pubs. They are in order: The Portobello (33 Sth....
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Bob Purdie’s memories of Dublin
Scottish historian and left-wing political activist Bob Purdie (1940-2014) published a number of autobiographical passages on his Facebook profile not long before he passed away. Two were focused on...
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Lonnie Donegan – My Only Son Was Killed in Dublin (The Dying Rebel) (c. 1958)
The late 1950s saw a number of world-renown singers record covers of Irish republican folk songs. These include Paul Robeson’s version of ‘Kevin Barry’ which was first released as single on Topic...
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Breakfast and the Revolutionary Period
Last Saturday, myself and Ciaran spoke at a talk entitled ‘The Past, Present and Future of the Irish Breakfast’ at the The Royal Society of Antiquaries on Merrion Square as part of the St. Patrick’s...
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Easter Weekend – 1916 Rising commemorative events in Dublin
Good Friday 25th March 2016 Sinn Fein are organising a “major rally to celebrate the lives of the executed leaders and role of the Irish diaspora in the Rising”. They are assembling at 12pm at...
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April/May – 1916 Rising commemorative events in Dublin
Saturday 9 April 2016 The Cabra 1916 Rising Committee and the East Wall History Group are co-organising a day of talks in City Hall with historians Brian Hanley, John Dorney, Hugo McGuinness, Stephen...
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The Old Grey Whistle Test – Dublin (May 1985)
Thanks to our friend Conor McCabe for uploading this seven minute clip from The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC2). It features presenter Andy Kershaw traveling to Dublin to report on the local live music...
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Rare Republican Congress internal letter (September 1936)
Thanks to our friend Daniel Lambert (of the wonderful Bang Bang cafe in Phibsboro) for letting us share this wonderful historical letter which was has been in his family’s possession for eighty years....
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Eamonn Cooke archive mentions – shootings, threats and firebomb attacks
It has come to light in the last week that deceased, convicted paedophile and former pirate radio personality Eamon Cooke (1936 – 2016) may have been involved in the disappearance and death of...
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