What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
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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.
A vintage train carries passengers on day trips from Dublin
There is a man who went to Connolly Station at 4am on a recent Sunday to light a coal fire in a vintage steam locomotive.
An Inchicore radio station offers hyperlocal news and all kinds of country music
Or, as its tag line goes, it’s “Country to the ‘Core”.
Brushing up: the blue crane at Dublin Port
The blue crane that stands proudly at Dublin Port isn’t just any crane. It’s Crane 292. And it has a history.
An archive of menus shows Dubliners’ changing tastes
Libraries have tended to collect high-brow ephemera such as opera programmes, rather than modest mealtime menus. One collection is trying to fill that gap.
A Dublin archaeologist tries to recreate medieval bread
One type of medieval bread Maeve L’Estrange makes is from an old English recipe. The “twice-baked raston” is bread that’s scooped out of the crust, mixed with butter, put back in, and baked again.
At Hercules Club, Eighty Years of Dubliners Helping Each Other Get Ripped
Hercules Club was something of an anomaly when it was born in 1934. Its spirit has endured.
A former concert pianist plays Debussy among the ferns
Clive Shannon used to play for the RTÉ symphony orchestra. These days he plays at Urban Plant Life on Cork Street.
The myth of the whiskey pension
Bottles in the post to retirees of some distilleries have fed rumours of pensions paid in the golden stuff. There’s some history behind the myth.
On Fishamble Street, family lives among four centuries of relatives’ keepsakes
Members of the same family have lived in this iconic building, or earlier incarnations of it, in Temple Bar since the 1600s.
On Kildare Street, visit a time capsule from 1974
The Department of Agriculture Library, which hasn’t been updated since it opened, features gems like “The Book of Asparagus” from 1901. It’s inviting visitors in on 13 October as part of the citywide Open House festival.