50th Anniversary Edition
A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon.
The very first book published by The O’Brien Press in 1974 celebrates fifty years in print.
The O’Brien Press launched its first publication in November 1974. Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin , written by Éamonn Mac Thomáis and published while the author was in jail, was an immediate success and has become a classic. Full of historical facts, anecdotes and Dublin wit, this book evokes the spirit, the characters and colours, the sights, sounds and even the smells of old Dublin. With sections on markets, pawn shops, street characters, the Liberties, slang and wit of Dublin’s newspapers, the city’s history is traced right back to Brian Boru, the Huguenots, ‘the debtors’ prison', and Dublin's troubled history of risings and revolutions .
Celebrating fifty years of Me Jewel & Darlin’ Dublin – and of The O’Brien Press.
Table des matières
PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD – IVAN O’BRIEN 7
FOREWORD – DONAL FALLON 11
1 A Child’s World
THE FOURPENNY RUSH 15
A DUBLIN PENNY 19
STREET GAMES 21
2 The Old Ways
THE PAWNSHOPS OF DUBLIN 27
THE COMEDY KING 34
STREET CHARACTERS 40
SOME DUBLIN SLANG 51
SOUNDS, SMELLS AND COLOURS 55
DUBLIN’S OLD NEWSPAPERS 60
3 Old Dublin Town
DUBLIN’S MANY LIBERTIES 69
AROUND ST WERBURGH’S 85
FORD OF HURDLES 89
4 Commercial Life
BACK OF THE PIPES 109
MERCHANTS AND MARKETS 112
A TRIP DOWN THE PORT 121
5 Hidden Places
AROUND ST MARY’S ABBEY 127
THE FIVE LAMPS 134
THE ROYAL CIRCUS 140
PHOENIX PARK 144
THE KING’S COWBOY 147
OLD KILMAINHAM 148
6 The City Centre
ST STEPHEN’S GREEN 155
TRINITY COLLEGE 170
AROUND COLLEGE GREEN 176
DUBLIN’S REVOLUTIONARY SQUARE 181
A NOTE ON PUBLICATION 188
INDEX 191
A propos de l’auteur
DONAL FALLON is a lecturer and historian based in Dublin. Co-founder of the popular social history website ‘Come Here To Me’, his previous publications include The Pillar: The Life and After Life of the Nelson Pillar (New Island, 2014). He is currently completing a Ph D on republican commemoration and memory in 1930s Ireland.
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