Visitors Guide To Dublin, Ireland | Dublin Facts & History
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Ireland's capital city Dublin has fast become one of the most visited short break city destinations in Europe. It seems these days that anyone and everyone has been there, done it and seen it all in Dublin. Besides being home to Guinness, Trinity College, The Temple Bar and Grafton Street there is far more to Dublin that initially meets the eye.
1. Dublin is called Baile Atha Cliath in Gaelic and dates back to the 9th century. It was originally a Viking settlement.
2. At one stage O' Connell Street, the city's main street was regarded as the widest street in Europe.
3. Dublin is also a county as well as a city but is actually one of the smallest of the 32 Irish counties.
4. The head of the Irish government is called An Taoiseach, which translated literally from Gaelic means “leader”
5. The home of the Irish parliament is in Dublin and is called The Dail. The three major political parties based in The Dail are Fianna Fail, Fianna Gael and Labour.
6. Dublin has less pubs per head of the population than any other European capital. Amazing but true!
7. The home of The Dubs, as they are fondly known is Croke Park. The Dubs are the Dublin Gaelic Football team. Croke Park is recognized as being one of the best Stadiums in the entire world due to its size and shape which creates a natural amphitheatre effect.
8. Dublin is home to the second largest outdoor park in the world-The Phoenix Park. This is the largest park in Europe and second only in the world to Central Park in New York.
9. The biggest crowd ever assembled in Ireland gathered in the Phoenix Park in 1819 to a rally led by Daniel O Connell calling for the freedom of Ireland from English oppression and rule. Over 1.5 million impassioned people gathered to hear O Connell proclaim “that the freedom of Ireland is not worth the shedding of one drop of blood”.
10. The freedom of Dublin city has only been bestowed on a small number of people including Nelson Mandela, U2 and Bob Geldof. This honour carries the unusual privilege of allowing its' recipients to graze sheep free of charge in St Stephens Green, one of Dublin's best known landmarks.
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Irish Labour after 1916 - Brian Hanley
In the aftermath of Russian Revolution and the Easter Rising, the Irish labour movement found itself in a new state of ferment. How did Irish labour fare after James Connolly’s death in 1916? How did the trade union movement rebuild itself? What was its role in the independence movement? This explores these questions. Brian Hanley is a historian and author of many books on Irish Republican history. The lecture was delivered in the Teachers' Club in Dublin on the 22nd of February 2017 as part of the People's College lecture series 'Ireland in a World of Revolutions.
The face of a 500-year-old Dublin man reconstructed | SCIENCE NEWS
The face of a 500-year-old Dublin man reconstructed | SCIENCE NEWS
Look into the eyes of a 500 year-old Dubliner: Researchers reconstruct face of a Tudor man in breathtaking detail.
Forensic anthropologists have reconstructed the face of a man buried hundreds of years ago in Ireland, and they say it could be the first look at an ‘ordinary Dubliner’ from the Tudor period.
The well-preserved skull of a man aged 25-35 years at the time of death was discovered back in July 2014 alongside the remains of four other individuals.
Experts estimate they lived and died during the Tudor period, from about 1485-1603, and as the burials showed signs of childhood malnutrition and heavy manual labour, it’s thought that they all came from a lower socio-economic class.
Archaeologists from Rubicon Heritage unearthed the burials in 2014 in a utilities trench, during work on Trinity College’s College Green.
Five burials were found altogether; of the bunch, two were fully excavated, and the remaining three were partially excavated.
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The Rising Across the Ocean: The Transnational Links Between Ireland and the US in 1916
The Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives offers a presentation by Alan Noonan entitled The Rising across an Ocean: The Transnational links between Ireland and the US in 1916.
The events of the Easter Rising of 1916 center around the military struggle in Dublin and the execution of the leaders of the rebellion. The Proclamation of the Republic declared that the forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizens Army were “supported by her exiled children in America.” This included significant support from the copper city of Butte, Montana, six and a half thousand kilometers away. The seismic consequences of the Rising would be intimately felt in Butte, as well as Ireland. Strikes wracked the city as workers protested American support of Britain and the later eventual entry of the United States into the World War. The events sundered the once unified Irish-Americans in Butte and led to familiar charges of disloyalty and sedition being used against them from certain quarters. This presentation covers these tumultuous events and brings some formerly hidden aspects of history to light.
Alan Noonan is a scholar of mobility, labor, and culture in the 19th and 20th century . He holds an M.Phil and a Ph.D in history and he has been a Mellon Fellow at the Library Company in Philadelphia, a Smithsonian Fellow at the National Museum of American History, and is currently a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress where he is conducting research on the project “Unearthing Traditions: Poems, Songs, and Stories of Mining Communities throughout the United States.” His book Wandering Laborers: The Irish and Mining throughout the American West, 1849-1920 will be released in the spring by the University of Colorado Press.
The Burden of our History
Dr Eamon Phoenix introduces the first lecture in the series of ten Remembering the Future and marking significant centenaries 2012-2023. He introduces Professor Paul Bew.
Easter Rising 1916 - Not to be commemorated
It seems the current Irish coalition government is quite wary of the upcoming centenary of the 1916 Rising which started the process of independence for Ireland. This 100 year celebration of independence and the defeat of the most powerful empire known which then laid the model and foundation that India and Africa could liberate herself from imperialistic rape and empire. It should be a source of pride for the Irish people. Instead the atmosphere is one of suspicion of anybody who might put their head above the parapet too high or suggest we should honour the centenary by labelling them as shinners, socialists, left wing loonies etc etc. Could it be that embracing the notions and sentiments of the proclamations of our fellow citizens could ultimately be an own goal of sorts for Fine Gael who appear unable to deal with the surge of populism behind Sinn Fein and it's close ties with the IRA and a receptive supporter base.
Or could it simply be that we have been led by one of the most conservative, austere parties in Irish history who along with their lying, sellout, rentboy friends in Labour have sailed us off into a red, white and blue neo-liberal fantasy that slowly eats away at the rights our ancestors fought so hard that moral and intellectually lazy bastards can have. That any notion of equality, freedom and liberty is mentioned with respect to 1916 is automatically conflated to socialism, and the dirty label republicanism has been tarred with over the decades is evidence itself of how divisive Irish independence and the breakaway from empire was and continues to be. Shame really as in a sense the people on whose shoulders we stood have been done a great disservice in terms of how we have stood by the commitment to a republic, which we simply haven't. What we have is a boston styled neo-liberal sandbox for offshore companies to come and take advantage of every service, subsidy, grant and so forth and then to avoid paying tax wherever possible which is the predominant reason they are in Ireland in the first instance.
Historical Antisemitism in Revolutionary Ireland.
Arthur Griffith is a controversial figure from early 20th century Irish politics. He was at different times a journalist, politician, revolutionary and Gaelic language revivalist. In 1899 he established the United Irishman newspaper, before going on to become one of the founders of Sinn Féin.
Arthur Griffith has acquired a reputation as an antisemite, primarily as a results of his writings on the infamous Dreyfus case. Even after Alfred Dreyfus had been pardoned Griffith remained anti-Dreyfus. In 1899 he wrote in the United Irishman: I have in former years often declared that the Three Evil Influences of the century were the Pirate, the Freemason, and the Jew.
This and other similar statements have been regularly offered as evidence that Griffith was an antisemite. This albatross has been used to hang around the neck of modern Sinn Féin, by its opponents, to suggest that the party is inherently antisemitic.
Dr. Colum Kenny is an Irish scholar and journalist who has researched and written extensively on the subject of Arthur Griffith. In a lecture delivered at the Irish Jewish Museum, Dr. Kenny suggests the time is opportune for a reappraisal of Griffith's attitude towards Jews. While not seeking to deny or excuse some of Griffiths anti Jewish statements, Dr. Kenny counsels that they be evaluated in context.
Dr. Kenny illustrates by example where other Irish historical figures also commented negatively on Jews in Ireland and elsewhere. He is trenchantly critical of renowned trade union leader Jim Larkin for publishing an antisemitic poem. not once but twice, in his Irish Worker newspaper.
Esteemed figures Michael Davitt and James Connolly are also shown to made stereotypical references to Jews, that while falling short of antisemitic could never be categorised as complementary.
In a stimulating and informative talk, Dr. Kenny highlights how antisemitic comments were prevalent among major Irish revolutionary figures.
Dublin Council of Trade Unions Commemorates James Connolly's death at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin 12th M
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Sir Howard Fergus on how the Irish came to be in Montserrat
Sir Howard Fergus is a Montserratian author and historian. He is a former professor at the University of the West Indies and is interested in the history of the Caribbean and Montserrat. He is also an established poet.
In this interview extract he discusses how the Irish came to be in Montserrat beginning with the forced transportations carried out under Oliver Cromwell.
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Leinster House (1922)
Dublin, Ireland.
Full titles read: LEINSTER HOUSE - The scene of Parliament's Assembly.
L/S's of Leinster House and the large statue of Queen Victoria that stands in front of it.
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Revolution in Ireland 1918-21 -- the political and military 're-conquest of Ireland.
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Dr. John Borgonovo is an American-born but Cork-based historian. He has written, Spies Informers and the Anti-Sinn Féin Society, The Intelligence war in Cork City, 1920-1921, on the War of Independence in Cork city. More recently he has written 'The Battle for Cork City 1922' and most recently The dynamics of war and revolution, Cork city, 1916-1918. He teaches at University College Cork.
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May Day - Slovak Cultural Traditions
Silvia from folclore ensamble Ostroha, explains some of the Slovak cultural traditions.
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It is also officially supported by the Embassy of Slovakia to Ireland and Lantern Centre
Stuart Rosenblatt talks Irish Jews and 1916.
Stuart Rosenblatt, currently President of the Genealogical Society 0f Ireland, is widely acknowledged a being the go-to man for all information about the Jewish roots in Ireland.
In a painstaking labour of love, involving research over a 25 year period, Stuart has compiled a database of over 50,000+ records of all Jewish citizens over Ireland, stretching back over 5 centuries. He has compiled this information into 18 volumes, only 6 copies of the full edition having ever been printed. Stuart has donated these copies to civic libraries in Dublin and Belfast, together with making copies available for researchers at Ireland's National Library and Archives, respectively.
Stuart joined CouncilMatters on Dublin City-fm ( for a special St Patrick's Day edition of the show. He shared with presenter Mick Martin details of the Jewish communities that existed in Ireland, confirmed and dispelled some of the myths regarding how Jews came to settle in Ireland in the 19th century, where the burial grounds are and information regarding some of the prominent identities that emerged from these communities.
It being the centenary of the 1916 Uprising, the dynamic duo pay tribute to the members of the Jewish Community who contributed to the Struggle for Irish Independence.
IGHM Symposium: Apparitions of Death and Disease: The Great Hunger in Ireland.
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University presented Famine Folios, a symposium to celebrate the launch of its publications program.
The publications program, which provides a unique famine resource for scholars and researchers, features works by four authors who were commissioned by the museum to write essays based on various aspects of the Famine in Ireland (1845-1852).
The four essays, the first in a continuing series, was released at the symposium where the four authors will discuss their work at a panel discussion moderated by Richard Kearney, Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
The panelists and their essay titles were:
--Luke Gibbons, professor of Irish literacy and cultural studies at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger.
--Christine Kinealy, professor of history and founding director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac, Apparitions of Death and Disease: The Great Hunger in Ireland.
--Catherine Marshall, art historian and former curator of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Monuments, Memorials and Visualizations of the Great Famine in Ireland.
--Niamh O'Sullivan, professor emeritus of visual culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and curator of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac, The Tombs of a Departed Race: Illustrations of Ireland's Great Hunger.
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