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.
Author Archives: Donal Fallon
Donal Fallon is a historian, writer and broadcaster based in Dublin. His work has appeared in History Ireland, Spiked, Jacobin and other outlets. He is editor of the Dublin history blog Come Here To Me (www.comeheretome.com).
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Donal: The Irish Vigilance Association and the War on “Evil Literature”
“There are only two alternatives in stamping out an evil: law or terrorism, and we had to fall back on terrorism,” recalled Fr R.S. Devane.
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Dealers Out! The Concerned Parents Against Drugs
The death of community activist John “Whacker” Humphrey a few weeks ago, reminded the country of the anti-drugs campaign in which he played such a central role.
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Donal: Flying Fists, Union Jacks, and the Launch of the Language Freedom Movement
Fifty years after the 1916 Rising, the Language Freedom Movement launched a campaign at the Mansion House to push the state to break some of its ties to the Irish language. Stink bombs were thrown, and scuffles broke out.
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Donal: Remembering Séamus Ennis, Ireland’s Greatest Music Collector
There is perhaps nobody as significant to the story of collecting Ireland’s oral folk tradition as Séamus Ennis, who was born a hundred years ago this May.
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Remembering Marjorie Hasler, a Window-Breaking Suffragette
Marjorie Hasler didn’t live to see women vote in a general election for the first time. But she was at the heart of the activism that brought it about.
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Donal: A Game for Countrymen?
How could it be that the Irish capital, with its population advantage over the rest of the island, has failed to challenge at the top level of hurling in the same manner that it has come to dominate Gaelic football?
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Donal: Olaudah Equiano’s Irish Friends
During his Ireland tour, the author and former slave found “receptive audiences keen to link their own political aspirations to his”.
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Eulogy to an Irish Pub
O’Meara’s Irish House wasn’t your normal drinking establishment.
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Donal: Rebel Bookseller
Patrick Byrne was a purveyor of incendiary ideas on eighteenth-century Grafton Street.