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Rare Old Dublin

Author: Frank Hopkins

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1860231543

Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book. Famous sons and daughters of the city also make an appearance: John Pius Boland of the famous milling family, who won two Olympic medals for tennis in 1896 playing in street clothes and leather shoes; Jack Langan, the bare-knuckle boxer of Ballybough; Sir William Cameron, the public health specialist who devised a bounty scheme for captured houseflies in 1913; and the Dolocher, the savage eighteenth-century beast in the form of a pig who turned out to be a man.

Hidden Dublin

Author: Frank Hopkins

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1856355918

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A history of Dublin as seen through the poverty, soup kitchens, food riots, street beggars and workhouses of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ulysses

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The Connoisseur

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Published: 1907

Total Pages: 506

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Vanishing Ireland

Author: James Fennel

Publisher: Hachette Ireland

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340920275

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In Vanishing Ireland II, the follow up to the bestselling Vanishing Ireland I, we take another journey down memory lane and, through a unique collection of portrait interviews, we look at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life. Illustrated with over a hundred evocative and stunning photographs, we meet the people and the customs that are fast becoming a distant memory. Through their own words and memories, men and women from every corner of Ireland transport us back to a simpler time when people lived off the land and the sea, and when music and storytelling were essential parts of life. Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland's formative years. These poignant interviews and photographs will make you laugh and cry but, above all, will provide a valuable chronicle that connects twenty-first century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world.