Nobody caught illegally dumping yet by new north inner-city CCTV
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On Synge Street, armoured fighters do chivalrous battle
Reenacting history goes way beyond dressing up, and deep into ideals of chivalry and honour. “It’s this idea of defending what needs to be defended.”
In Donnybrook, a Theatre Company Brings Local History to Life
The Beaver Row Heritage Players’ most recent project is a documentary on the history of the Donnybrook Cemetery and the people who have tended to it over the years.
A Historian Maps Out the Geography of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Nowadays a co-working space, the Academy at 42 Pearse Street was once a meeting place for women demanding the right to vote.
The Peeler’s Notebook, Reviewed
More than a factual account of the early years of Dublin’s police, this book is a tour of the foggy streets and dangerous laneways of Ireland’s capital.
Scattered About the City, Reminders of a Revolutionary Woman
How did an English nurse from a Protestant family end up an ardent republican in Rathmines, arrested for vandalising a cinema with a pot of ink?
How a butcher amassed a photo archive for East Wall
A tradition began in East Wall of people dropping in, to share a photo to put on display – an analogue timeline in a butcher’s shop window.
In the Liberties, Workshops Teach History and Practice of Weaving
“I’m a strong believer in the healing power of making, and the empowering of making, being creative,” says Marja Almqvist.
Donal: The Redevelopment of Dalymount Park Offers a Chance to Remember Its Rich History
Perhaps a redeveloped Dalymount Park would be the ideal home for a museum dedicated to the story of Irish football, encompassing everything from Harold Sloan to the Drums.
A History Group Hopes to Tempt Drimnagh Locals into a Park
The group’s first project is a history trail meant to get people using Brickfield Park more, to give it more of a community feel.
The Memoirs of Mrs Margaret Leeson, Reviewed
By “Dublin’s leading brothel keeper at the end of the 1700s”, this “is a hugely recommended book which will expand anyone’s sense of the Irish past and of our literary heritage”.
An Exhibition Shows Off Keepsakes Women Carried With Them When They Moved to Ireland
For her Invisible Museum show, now on in Kilmainham, Laragh Pittman has borrowed objects brought in suitcases and pockets from across the world to a new home.
The Patient Assassin, Reviewed
Udham Singh waited two decades to exact revenge on Tipperary’s Michael O’Dwyer. A new book tracks what happened in those years.