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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Scattered About the City, Reminders of a Revolutionary Woman
How did an English nurse from a Protestant family end up an ardent republican in Rathmines, arrested for vandalising a cinema with a pot of ink?
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.
In the Liberties, Workshops Teach History and Practice of Weaving
“I’m a strong believer in the healing power of making, and the empowering of making, being creative,” says Marja Almqvist.
Donal: The Redevelopment of Dalymount Park Offers a Chance to Remember Its Rich History
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.
A History Group Hopes to Tempt Drimnagh Locals into a Park
The group’s first project is a history trail meant to get people using Brickfield Park more, to give it more of a community feel.
The Memoirs of Mrs Margaret Leeson, Reviewed
By “Dublin’s leading brothel keeper at the end of the 1700s”, this “is a hugely recommended book which will expand anyone’s sense of the Irish past and of our literary heritage”.
An Exhibition Shows Off Keepsakes Women Carried With Them When They Moved to Ireland
For her Invisible Museum show, now on in Kilmainham, Laragh Pittman has borrowed objects brought in suitcases and pockets from across the world to a new home.
The Patient Assassin, Reviewed
Udham Singh waited two decades to exact revenge on Tipperary’s Michael O’Dwyer. A new book tracks what happened in those years.
A Local Historian’s Latest Work: a History of Goldenbridge Cemetery
Liam O’Meara walks to a curved spot in the stone wall nearby. This is his favourite find from his research. A bench used to be here for mourners, called the seat of melancholia.
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.
A Burial Ground on Cork Street Hints at a Neglected History
The graveyard is a reminder of how important Quakers were to life in the south inner-city at one time, and some would like to see it better taken care of.
As Dublin Port Dredges, an Archaeologist Watches for Treasures
“There will be ropes and metal and debris – modern stuff. But there will also be archaeological material,” says Niall Brady.