By Kathrin Kobus Step and curtsy, lift and curtsy, on your toes, prepare, prepare and skip.” These are just some of the instructions Sharon Kinsella calls out on a Thursday afternoon to the group of girls from the 11th Company […]
Read more →By Jennifer Reddin On Saturday the 30th of September, 2017, hundreds of people gathered at Custom House Quay, beside the Sean O’Casey Bridge, to commemorate the loss of the SS Hare and the SS Adela, two ships that have a […]
Read more →Dublin City Library and Archive launched their exhibition on December 1st to legendary footballer and manager Patrick O’Connell, with the official launch by Ardmhéara Mícheál Mac Donncha. Patrick was born in Drumcondra, Dublin in 1887. He started his professional career […]
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One of Ringsend’s most endearing residents, Michael (Micko) O’Neill, passed away on October 29th. Micko was well-known to everyone in the area and loved by most who met him, that is apart from sporting rivals, I’m sure. Born in 1921, […]
Read more →Do you remember the guy who used to camp down at Sandymount Strand that locals called ‘Moses’? Did you ever speak to the man or ever find out his background? Or how about the man who used to live down […]
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Dublin Bus was created when the original CIE separated into the subsidiaries of Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann back in 1987. Since then, Dublin Bus has gone through many changes. The population of Dublin has grown significantly over […]
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JJ Ledwidge was born in 1877 and grew up at Arran Quay in Dublin. He won two All-Ireland Gaelic Football Championships, representing Dublin with the Geraldines club in 1898, when he scored two goals in the final, and again in […]
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The Pigeon House and its accompanying buildings are a well-known part of Ringsend’s sailing and industrial history, but perhaps lesser known is the story of the tumultuous Pidgeon House murders of 1761 and the Ringsend family at the centre of […]
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Joe Curtis, a retired surveyor, has written a number of books about local areas on the Southside, such as Dundrum and Blackrock. His latest book is a historical book about Ringsend focusing on the history of industry and local activity […]
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As part of the Five Lamps Arts Festival this year, a group of former dockworkers from the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society (DDPS) got together with playwright Niamh Gleeson to stage a series of performances in which they recounted their working […]
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