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Keeping it lit – Frank McNally on attending the global premiere of Gloomsday

Sunday was the chronological aphelion of Bloomsday, June 16th, the date on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set. “The chronological what?” I hear astronomy-challenged...

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No Bloom at the Inn – Frank McNally on the delayed debut of a new (and old) Dublin pub

Back in September, I noted the reappearance in Dublin of The Burton: once again occupying the corner of Duke Street and Duke Lane, 120...

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“I remember” – Tim Fanning on the power of cinema to unlock the secrets of memory and nostalgia

Recently, I decided to rewatch the Italian movie Cinema Paradiso. For those who haven’t seen it, the film follows a young boy, Totò, growing...

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Old Haunt – Frank McNally on the sinister past of a Dublin street garden

In the Clonliffe House pub, Ballybough, for a history talk one night recently, I crossed the road to visit one of Dublin’s more fascinating...

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Duke of Hazard – Frank McNally on the literary pubs (and restaurants) of Dublin 2

I was meeting friends in Kehoe’s of South Anne Street, our regular Dublin haunt, last Friday night. And when the plans were made, we...

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‘Buses are for losers’: A short history of traffic congestion in Dublin

One hundred years ago, the chief of the Dublin Metropolitan Police proposed a solution to the city’s burgeoning traffic congestion problem: get rid of...

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A team of two halves – Tim Fanning on the Peru-Chile football team in Dublin

In 1933, a South American football team visited Dublin on the first stop of their European tour. That a touring side from South America...

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Leaders Leinster maintain winning run with hard-fought victory over Connacht – Ireland & world sport – Western People

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Leaders Leinster maintain winning run with hard-fought victory over Connacht – Ireland & world sport – Western People

Breakthrough act Orla Gartland says playing Dublin’s Olympia Theatre is the ‘dream venue’

‘I’ve worked almost every Christmas Day for 27 years, we’re like family’, says Coombe Hospital worker

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Leaders Leinster maintain winning run with hard-fought victory over Connacht – Ireland & world sport – Western People

Breakthrough act Orla Gartland says playing Dublin’s Olympia Theatre is the ‘dream venue’

‘I’ve worked almost every Christmas Day for 27 years, we’re like family’, says Coombe Hospital worker

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