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Men at Arms
Maurice Earls writes: During the Great War of 1914-18 between 35,000 and 40,000 Dubliners fought in British uniform. Towards the end of his book Dublin’s Great Wars Richard S Grayson discusses how...
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Eastward Ho!
Peter Sirr writes: The immediately likeable thing about Pearse Square is that it has seceded from Pearse Street so completely that not a trace of that wide trafficky thoroughfare, with its atmosphere...
View ArticleThe Costs of Technology
The first number of The Irish Penny Magazine was issued on July 4th, 1840. It was edited by George Petrie and was published in Church Lane off College Green in Dublin. It included a satirical piece,...
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Shop Girls, High and Low
Maurice Earls writes: A change in shopping culture occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth century with the arrival of the department store in cities on both sides of the Atlantic, including...
View ArticleSwings and Roundabouts
Among the extensive and enthusiastic commemorations around 1916 some themes are receiving less attention than they might be said to merit. One such element is the German connection. Everyone knows the...
View ArticleWomen Won’t Wait
In 1913 a Women’s Franchise Bill went before parliament. The Irish Parliamentary Party, led by John Redmond and John Dillon, refused to support it, arguing that the matter would be addressed by a home...
View ArticleSparks from the Comet
Maurice Earls writes: The first number of The Comet newspaper was issued on Sunday May 1st, 1831 from offices at No 10 D’Olier Street. It prefigured the famous Nation newspaper, which was also...
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Within and Without
In 1579 Dublin’s pig-warden is Barnaby Rathe, bellman, master and beadle of the beggars. His main problem is less the pigs who must be rounded up or the beggars than the slippery citizens who are...
View ArticleWhen in Dublin …
Thomas O’Grady writes: Recently I spent an agreeable hour or so leafing through a forty-year-old issue of In Dublin magazine. It was given to me fifteen years ago by a friend who thought I’d find it...
View ArticleThe men that is now
Maurice Earls writes: Everyone agrees that James Joyce, who was born 140 years ago today (February 2nd), was unusually observant. Somehow he captured what he observed, the people, the places, the...
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