William Martin Murphy (1844 – 1919) Newspaper baron, MP, builder and owner of the Dublin Tramway Company, William Martin Murphy led Dublin employers against Jim Larkin’s trade union movement. In August 1913, he sacked hundreds of workers whom he suspected […]
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Jim Larkin ‘And Tyranny trampled them in Dublin’s gutter until Jim Larkin came along and cried the call of Freedom and the call of Pride.’ (Sign at the foot of the Larkin statue on O’Connell Street). Ironically enough, given the […]
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On September 13th 1911, staff of the East Wall Wharf National School arrived to work to be confronted with a sign that read ‘Any boy cot going into school and not following other schoolboys examples will be killed by order […]
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Striking Times By Eric Hillis By the time the Dublin Lock-Out took place in 1913, workers downing tools in protest had become a growing global phenomenon. With the United States experiencing industrial growth on an unprecedented scale, it became the […]
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After spending a year working as a messenger boy, on a messenger boy’s bike for Hunt Bros of Grand Canal Street, I got a job driving a lift at College Green for Friends Provident and Century Life Insurance. The building […]
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In the wake of the Gathering 2013, and in the aftermath of last year’s deluge of activity post-emancipation from copyright, Bloomsday (June 16th) has been approaching with little fanfare this year. Nonetheless, this international celebration of James Joyce’s great modernist […]
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The old Dublin Cattle Market, the biggest in the city and one of the largest on these islands, was situated off the North Circular Road on Prussia Street for 90 years. Cattle ‘marts’ as they are known today had not […]
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This year is the 1550th anniversary of King Laoghaire. Since his reign was the start of literacy and the dawn of Irish recorded history, we thought we would send our resident correspondent Jason McDonnell out to visit one of Dun […]
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In Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin’s Harold’s Cross rests an unspoken piece of Hollywood history. There you can find the grave of one Anthony Hepburn-Ruston. His name may be meaningless to you, but if you read the inscription you’ll see […]
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I recently read a book called Shadow and Sun by Neil Campbell, the son of James Campbell, the minister of the old Presbyterian Church on the junction of Tritonville Road, Sandymount that was demolished back in 1999. The grounds of […]
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