
Why are they writing?
30 Apr 1930I’d like to see a bust to my own old friend, Alderman Tom Kelly, the man who was Dublin, and I’d like to see some honour paid to another great…
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The Bermingham Tower in Dublin Castle
16 Jan 1931State Prison and Court of Law THE present month witnesses the migration of the Courts from their temporary abode in the Castle to the re-arisen Four Courts. No more shall…
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The Revenges of Time
25 Jan 1931Dublin Castle and it’s modern uses. THE whirligig of time certainly brings revenges. Amongst the latest news is that of the purposes to which Dublin Castle is to be devoted.…
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The Irish Rebellion
6 Jun 1931Some Outstanding Events The Opening Attack. One of the most prominent buildings on the south side of Dublin was Dublin Castle, situated at the western end of Dame Street on…
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The castle moat
5 Apr 1968At the Epiphany, 1591, there was the usual extra beer issue to the garrison of Dublin Castle, high revel in the officers’ quarters, sentries numb -with cold on the high…
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The watercourse
1 May 1972THERE has been much useful representation about preservation of national monuments, street facades, canals, open spaces, etc., in relation to urban life. What prompts this letter is the first blow…
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A chronicler of Oliver Cromwell
16 May 1972[additional information in PDF….] triumphant make at the time in any war, and. which becomes the raw material from which the historian moulds his history. One of the first to…
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Bad planning may bury ancient water course
25 Jul 1972THE 700-YEAR- OLD City Water Course — once a complex of the little Dublin rivers and canals flowing through old Dublin and now out of sight underground—has left behind a…
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City Scene
2 Jan 1973IF DUBLIN SHOULD forget all about the Liberties it certainly won’t be the fault of the Liberties. What they’re at now is compiling a book which is due out any…
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City Watercourse
5 Jan 1973ABOUT six months ago you published a letter from Sister Ann Fitzgerald, O.P., concerning the future of the ancient City Watercourse (the 700-year old canal linking the Dodder at Firhouse…
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Up the creek at the “Poddle Millrace”
3 Jun 1973Sir — Your columnist Des Hickey is respectfully a bit up the creek when he writes of his “new” discovery of the Poddle millrace in William Talbot’s back garden at…
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A nun who dipped into history and got wet
16 Jun 1973I FELL IN LOVE with a nun last night Sister Ann Dominica Fitzgerald endeared herself to me forever when she grinned with fiendish glee and described how she fell in…
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South of the Moat
21 Feb 1975THE clock in this clock-tower doesn’t work (but that is not so unusual in present-day Dublin), but the building beneath it has been, for quite a few generations, a ‘busy…
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Follow me says Sister Ann
7 Mar 1976AT THREE O’CLOCK this afternoon, Sister Ann Dominica, a black-and-white garbed Dominican nun, will lead a tour along Dublin’s secret river, the Poddle. This years Dublin Arts Festival has Medieval…
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Operation Clean-Up on the Poddle
13 Jul 1976Operation Clean-Up On The Poddle Children from Greenhills parish, Dublin, removing debris from the Poddle river at Greenhills under the watchful eye of Timmie O’Neill, organiser of the clean-up.
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Christy and Brendan
14 Jun 1986I STOOD at the fine granite tomb in St. Marys Churchyard, Crumlin Village, and read the details in the stonework. Sir Frederick Shaw Bart Recorder of Dublin. Died 1876. He…
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