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Come Here To Me! @chtmdublin

Dublin blog dedicated to the social history of the Irish capital. Estd. 2009. Best Of collections Vols 1 & 2 by New Island Books. Maintained by Sam.

Joined January 2011
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Beautiful interior shots of Eamon Nolan's pub in 1958 at the corner of at the corner of Stephen’s Green and South King Street. It was taken over by Bobby Rice in 1960 and became a well-known gay-friendly pub alongside the nearby Bartley Dunne's.
Paul Clerkin - Archiseek.com@archiseek
9 Dec 2024
Eamonn Nolan's Public House, St. Stephen's Green Dublin, interiors by Sam Stephenson circa 1958. #dublininteriors #dublin #dublinpubs
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Fantastic Synge St. CBS senior class photo from 1919 showing three future WOI IRA Vols and anti-Treaty officers - Frank Kerlin (Assistant IRA Director of Intelligence), Todd Andrews (IRA GHQ Officer) and IRA Commandant Bobby Bonfield (abducted and killed in March 1923). Sam.
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"A view of Capel Street, Dublin, looking towards Parliament Street and City Hall in about 1945." (c) Irish Capuchin Archives
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Dr. Caroline West 🦩@CarolineWest_IE
2 Dec 2024
✨News✨ My first book will be published on 20th Feb 2025! Featuring interviews with the descendants of the Madams and midwives of Monto, this book explores how the women of Monto survived poverty,stigma & violence. Published by @eriu_books Available to preorder everywhere now!
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Dublin By Pub@dublinbypub
1 Nov 2024
Begrudgingly posted this from work, just for anyone wondering if I succumbed to temptation. Was doing an archive search for an old ad for the pub and happened upon something far more interesting. Keep an eye out for this keystone at the entrance, next time you pass the pub!
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Cian Duffy@cian_duffy
2 Nov 2024
A ghost sign starts to reveal itself as modern paints start to fall off the side of Cumiskeys. Come for the the 4.70 Beamish, stay for the drinking history.
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With the official announcement that the Dublin Conservative Club (DCC) is to close after 141 years, here are two articles from the Evening Herald (08 June '49) and Irish Independent (03 Jan '51) when the club was based at 38 York St. Sam.
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The Irish Times
@IrishTimes
6 Sep 2024
End of the Tory: Dublin Conservative Club to close its doors for last time after 141 years irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/…

End of the Tory: Dublin Conservative Club to close its doors for last time after 141 years

The Protestant men-only club survived the War of Independence and the Civil War to become a popular venue in the 1980s. Now, its building on Camden Row is to be sold

irishtimes.com
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Wonder what happened to the plaque to Dr Emile Joseph Dillon, journalist, philologist & author. Born at 3 Charles St West, Dublin in 1954 & died in Barcelona in 1933. Image from Evening Herald (22 March 1954). DIB entry for an extraordinary life - dib.ie/biography/dillon-emil…. Sam.
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fyi @Arch_Archive @Archidub1 @DCLAReadingRoom @heritage_dublin @dubcivictrust et al.
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RIP Pól, he was a good friend of CHTM! from the very start and left over 400 comments on the blog from 2010 to 2023. He had a genuine love and appreciation of Dublin's history. Sam.
Póló 🇮🇪 🇺🇦 🇵🇸(@irlpol.bsky.social)@irlpol
8 Aug 2024
Pól died 01/08/24, rip.ie/death-notice/pol-o-du… but got his book out at brewsterbook.com Contact @irldexter for more re: rip.ie/death-notice/pol-o-du…
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Some recent finds. A 1959 ad for the Asia Chinese Restaurant, Lower Leeson St., which was the first Chinese restaurant in Dublin (estd. 1957). Also a 1964 ad for the Luna Chinese Restaurant, Upper O'Connell St, which opened in the late 1950s. More: comeheretome.com/2012/07/25/… Sam.
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Memorial notices were placed in the Irish Times as late as 1967 for RIC District Inspector Swanzy who was implicated in the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain (Lord Mayor of Cork) in March 1920. Transferred to Lisburn, he was tracked down by the IRA and shot in Aug of the same year. Sam
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Article published in the Sunday Pictorial (30 Sep. 1962) just one year and six months before the death of Brendan Behan aged 41 of fatty degeneration of the liver as a result of alcoholism and diabetes. Sam.
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Looking for an up-to-date contact address or phone number for Christy 'Bronco' Dunne Jr. if anyone can help. It's regarding a history project. Have already tried two different mobile numbers but they're disconnected. Thanks, Sam. Photo credit: Padraig O'Reilly - The Sun Dublin
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RareIrishStuff
@RareIrishStuff
20 Jun 2024
Original sign that hung outside The Wolfe Tone pub on the corner of Jervis and Mary street. Anyone have any memories of this pub? The Jervis shopping centre now occupies this corner. The sign is available for purchase.
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Solidarity with all the families and their long struggle for justice.
RTÉ News
@rtenews
18 Apr 2024
Verdicts of unlawful killing have been returned at the Stardust inquests into the deaths of the 48 people in the 1981 nightclub fire. The families in court today cheered and applauded as the verdict was read out rte.ie/news/stardust/2024/04…
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Dr Paul O'Brien@FearStairLmk
3 Apr 2024
Dear #Dublin friends, does anyone recognise this house? Irish Independent, 19 September 1942.
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Cian Duffy@cian_duffy
27 Mar 2024
35 years ago today, the Evening Herald published a list of Dublin's 100 best pubs. While there's some odd categorisation, and a pub I can't even place, it has stood up to time better than many newer equivalents everypubindublin.blogspot.co…

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Alan Kinsella@electionlit
16 Mar 2024
Poster for a 1995 Anti Nazi League Comedy Night in the Baggott Inn
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