"As you can imagine, you've got 20 parking spaces, and we come along and say we're going to take out two of them or something like that to give spaces for people on bikes, it doesn't go down particularly well."
Donal Fallon is a historian, writer and broadcaster based in Dublin. His work has appeared in History Ireland, Spiked, Jacobin and other outlets. He is editor of the Dublin history blog Come Here To M
In his monthly column, Donal Fallon of “Come Here to Me!” takes a look at the life of Emmett Grogan, Irish American wild child and original hippy, who visited Dublin in the 1960s.
In 1918, a crowd of perhaps 10,000 rallied at the Mansion House in Dublin to herald the birth of the new “Russian Republic”, following the Russian Revolution.
