Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130606-HistoryIrelandShow-024.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Strumpet City: was it like that? ‘One City, One Book’, Recorded at the Gilbert Library, Pearse Street Sat. 27 April, 3.45pm with Francis Devine, Ann Matthews, D.R. O’Connor Lysaght & Niamh Puirséil
Wed 7pm DLR County Council Spring of Heritage, Marlay Park, Rathfarnham. The foundation of St Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, Tom Conlon. Wed 8pm Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society, Royal Marine Hotel. Living in Harbour House during the Emergency, Russell Kane. Adm. €3.
One day in the late 1970s, the natural curiosity of childhood led me to my parents’ sitting room in Co. Roscommon and a press full of books, papers and assorted trinkets. Two objects attracted my young eye. One was an old book with a signature dated 1857 concerning the biblical story of Adam and Eve … Read more
I could never have imagined that a shopping trip to the market of Antibes in Southern France could have triggered dormant memories of my childhood days in the village of Blanchardstown in the 1950’s. Specifically, I remembered a summer holiday spent as a companion to the son of the Master of St Vincent’s Hospital on … Read more
