On Hardwicke Lane, a tiny masjid faces hostility and xenophobia, but it can’t afford to move
A new report says there’s a lack of spaces for faith-based communities in the north-east inner-city, and urges the council to help.
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A Woman Remembers Her Rathgar Bookshop, Closed a Year Now
“It’s always the people you miss the most, about anything,” Liz Meldon says on a recent return to the place she built a community around, which is gone now.
At Hercules Club, Eighty Years of Dubliners Helping Each Other Get Ripped
Hercules Club was something of an anomaly when it was born in 1934. Its spirit has endured.
A former concert pianist plays Debussy among the ferns
Clive Shannon used to play for the RTÉ symphony orchestra. These days he plays at Urban Plant Life on Cork Street.
On Fishamble Street, family lives among four centuries of relatives’ keepsakes
Members of the same family have lived in this iconic building, or earlier incarnations of it, in Temple Bar since the 1600s.
An Advocate for Tenants Clocks Up Hundreds of Cases at the RTB
Patrick Nelis visits the Residential Tenancies Board most days, sometimes twice a day, to argue cases for tenants. He didn’t always do this. He used to work with horses.
Tribute to a Wandering Musician
Gavin Mee kept travelling and gigging and loving right up to the end, even as his heart was failing him.
Some find comfort in the magazine aisles
There is something of a ritual most mornings in the magazine section of Eason on O’Connell Street.
Before you ask: Salvatore Fullam is from Lucan
The painter’s work depicts his family life: playing FIFA on Xbox, falling asleep in front of the TV, and tying his shoes without help from the father he’s never met, who is the reason people often ask him where he’s from.
At 85, a Market Trader Still on the Go
“They’re made for dancing,” says Tessie Carroll, pointing to the high heels the woman inspects before leaving empty-handed. “Jaysus, if you brought gold here they’d want silver.”
How one young couple helped women escape from the last Magdalene Laundry
Caught in the barbed wire wrapped around the convent’s front gate, a woman was trying to escape. As the couple passed by, she called for help.