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In this bonus episode of the Publin podcast, I speak with a few people who tell stories and experiences of working the docks of Dublin port and their lives growing up in the East Wall and Ringsend. This episode was recorded after a live event in December to celebrate a new exhibition called 'Solidarity, the dockers of Dublin port'.
My guests on this bonus episode shared some lively, poignant, and funny stories of their working lives and the communities in which they lived. Thanks to Paddy Nevins, John 'Miley' Walsh, Margaret Cullen, Declan Byrne, and Richard 'Boxer' Elliott.
SOLIDARITY – THE DOCKERS OF DUBLIN PORT
Dublin Port Company proudly presents ‘Solidarity: The Dockers of Dublin Port’ an exhibition curated by The Little Museum of Dublin. The exhibition, housed in the newly refurbished Substation building on Alexandra Road, unveils the gripping narrative of Dublin;s dockers - an intriguing industrial subculture that embodies resilience, humor, and unwavering solidarity.
Event Details:
Where: Substation, Alexandra Road, Dublin Port
Date: Every Thursday to Sunday until Sunday 18th February 2024
Time: 11:30 am to 3:30 pm
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This year I joined a small crowd of people outside the Thomas Street entrance to the Guinness brewery who wait patiently for the changing of the years on the signage. On the left side is 1759 for the year that Arthur Guinness began brewing here and on the right, the new year.
This is the story of where the tradition came from and how people celebrate the ringing in of the New Year in this very Dublin fashion.
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This week I was joined by Dublin Port’s Charlie Murphy and Daryl Hendley Rooney of The Little Museum of Dublin for this special live edition of the Publin Podcast. Recorded in front of an audience at Cleary’s Pub on Amiens Street, we chatted about the Solidarity exhibition at the Port’s Substation, Dublin social history, pubs and so much more.
SOLIDARITY – THE DOCKERS OF DUBLIN PORT
Dublin Port Company proudly presents ‘Solidarity: The Dockers of Dublin Port’ an exhibition curated by The Little Museum of Dublin. The exhibition, housed in the newly refurbished Substation building on Alexandra Road, unveils the gripping narrative of Dublin;s dockers - an intriguing industrial subculture that embodies resilience, humor, and unwavering solidarity.
Event Details:
Where: Substation, Alexandra Road, Dublin Port
Date: Every Thursday to Sunday until early February 2024
Time: 11:30 am to 3:30 pm
Event Links:
Learn More about Solidarity Exhibition
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"I'm the only a man in the history of music promotors to have lost money on a Radiohead gig."
In 1993 Radiohead were on a tour of 149 venues across 2 continents to promote their debut album Pablo Honey. It was on that tour that they played their first ever Irish gig in a Temple Bar venue called 'The Rock Garden'. Years later they would be playing to sold out crowds in huge venues. But first, they were at a basement bar playing to a crowd of less than 100. Here's the story of that gig.
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Now in a state of total dereliction, The Plough on Abbey Street was once THE theatre pub in the city, drawing crowds of patrons before and after shows in the Abbey Theatre across the road. Some of the most famous faces in Irish film and theatre have had a drink here, including Peter O'Toole, Liam Neeson, and Gabriel Byrne.
In this episode, I tell the story of The Plough from it's prior incarnation as an 19th century entertainment club right up to its heyday as a watering hole for theatre goers. In between those years we reveal how the pub was a literal home to Count John McCormack, Ireland's most famous tenor and perhaps the most famous ever musical export.
I'm joined by actor Clive Geraghty who tells stories of the Plough and its relation with Ireland's national theatre. He also happens to be my dad.
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Here it is, a question that could make or break a nation's morale. Can you fit the entire population of Ireland into a pub at one time. Take out the chairs, tables, and pack every last person you can in to the pubs of Ireland. Could you fit the entire population? Millions and millions of people? Are there enough pubs? What do you think?
I put the theory to the test and calculate how many pubs there are in Ireland, how many people you could fit in them and see just how close you can get to fitting them all in. As a bonus, I also calculate how much it would cost the Irish state to buy everyone a round on just such an occasion.
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When it comes to pubs, I have a few pet theories. One of them is that every family in Ireland (if they can trace their roots back a few generations) has had a relative who owned or ran a pub. Today, I'm going to tell you the story of the pub linked to my family, Morans in Mornington, County Meath,
Through the pub, we explore family history, local folklore and the very idea of the family pub in Ireland.
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In 1984, Ronald Reagan visited Ireland and the place of birth of his great grandfather, Michel Regan. On his visit to Ballyporeen, County Tipperary, he visited two cultural institutions; first the local church and then, of course, the local pub. In his honour, O'Farrell's pub was renamed 'The Ronald Reagan'. This podcast is the story of how that pub was saved from being scattered to the four corners of Ireland, and came to re reassembled 8,000km (5,000 miles) away in the Ronald Reagan library in California where you can still get a pint of Guinness today.
To find out the full story, I spoke with Fred Ryan. Fred, as well as being the man responsible for the pub making its way to California, worked in the White House with President Reagan, became the president's Chief of Staff after his terms of office, and then became chairman of the board of trustees for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Fred was the first CEO of Politico and most recently is the CEO of The Washington Post.
Music used: 'The Encouragement Stick' by Doctor Turtle.
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This week we're dealing with a very very serious topic. It is of course the stalwart of the Irish pub culinary tradition, the toasted sandwich, or toastie. I'm joined by a self proclaimed toastie connoisseur on a pub crawl around Dublin, philosophising and investigating what makes a toastie so beloved of Dubliners. And we have to ask the honest question.....is it just a bit crap? And is that the point? Join us on this toastie odyssey around some excellent Dublin pubs.
Check out Eoin Whelehan's amazing illustrations, including the Dublin toastie map and all his other pub related creations via eoinwhelehan.carbonmade.com
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Sebastian Dangerfield, American, student, father, drinker. JP Donleavy's 1955 novel The Ginger Man is one of the most pub laden books in fiction, even irish fiction. On this episode of the podcast we take you on an aural tour of the pubs mentioned and frequented by Sebastian Dangerfield, the novel antagonist.
We'll discuss three principle characters, Dangerfield, Donleavy and the inspiration for the Ginger Man, Gainor Crist. From the high class Stags Head to the sawdust floored McDaids, The Ginger Man puts them all through their paces.
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This week we interview the author of the Joe Swallow detective books, a series of 4 books about an investigator with the Dublin Metropolitan Police in 1880s Dublin. Swallow solves the most grizzly murders using scientific reasoning and his street wit. Along the way he meets interesting characters along the way, including some of the fiercest street gangs Dublin has ever had to offer, as well as a young poet by the name of Yeats and he also comes to be embroiled in a brewing political scandal involving Charles Stewart Parnell. Crucially for the purpose of this podcast, Swallow lived above a pub on Dublin's Thomas Street.
I met up with author Conor Brady in that very pub to discuss recreating Victorian Dublin, the history of policing, and the role of the pub in Dublin society of the time.
Conor Brady is a novelist, journalist, and academic. He was editor of the Irish Times for 16 years and has written extensively about the history of policing in Ireland. Enjoy!
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For nearly 100 years The Irish House pub caught the eye of Dubliners on the corner of Winetavern Street and Wood Quay. It was a bold political statement of a pub with romantic celtic depictions of irish wolfhounds, the maid of Erin, and the stone of destiny from the Hill of Tara. On its roof it had 6 round towers and below that depictions of Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell calling for Irish self determination. This is the story of The Irish House, the most beautiful pub in Dublin. How it came to be, how it was enjoyed and how it is now remembered.
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Have you ever wondered if anybody has ever visited every pub in Dublin? Surely not! Well, I’m here today to tell you that someone has indeed visited every one of them, had a pint in each one, and he did it in the space of 3 years. Oh yeah, and he’s not even Irish.
This is the extraordinary story of Yuya Abe, the Japanese man who, over the course of 3 years visited every single last pub in Dublin and became a folk hero.
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From 1927 to 2018 every pub in Ireland was bound by law to close their doors on Good Friday. Not a drop of alcohol was to be found in the country. Not legally anyway. In this episode we explore the legal loopholes around the ban, the hilarious stories of the publicans who were caught opening, and the day that the curtain came down on the law.
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This week's episode continues the journey to find all of the pubs in the work of Roddy Doyle. We focus on his love letter to Dublin pubs, called 'Love', his book about a man searching for his new local following a divorce, and his play 'Two Pints', and you can guess where that is set.
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Author of The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, and many more award winning books, Roddy Doyle captures the voice of working class Dublin like no other. So many of his works include depictions of the Dublin pub that we decided to put together a comprehensive guide to pubs in the work of Roddy Doyle. From the local Barrytown pub, The Hikers Rest, to the city centre pub that Jimmy and Bimbo declare to have the best pint in Dublin. The pubs, the conversations and the Irish drinking philosophy.
This is part one and features The Barrytown books and films, capturing all the pints drank by Jimmy junior, his dad Jimmy senior and his sister Sharon.
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4 pubs on the island of Ireland lay claim to being at the highest elevation and therefore being the highest pub in the land. But whose contention is the strongest, backed up by evidence and certified by the cartographers of the land?! We investigate and get to the bottom of it all.
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Ireland has had pubs in some form or another since at least 600ad. So, how old is Ireland's oldest surviving pub? We have 5 contenders who claim to be the oldest or one of the oldest in Dublin or Ireland.
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Have you ever heard of the opera about the Irish pub? No, seriously! But it wasn’t performed in Milan’s La Scala, or even the Wexford Opera House. And it wasn’t performed by your regular operatic performers, bellowing out in German or Italian. This is the story of the lost and then found film shot in 1965 in O’Donoghues Pub on Merrion Row, starring The Dubliners.
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In this episode we chart the history of scailtin, its various recipes and its connection to Dublin's most famous occult sessioners. Scailtín is a half forgotten traditionally Irish drink whose key ingredients are whiskey and butter. It's a flavour to rival baileys.
The second part of the episode features the legend of Scaldbrother, a 16th century thief who lived in an underground network in the Oxmantown area of North Dublin city.
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