Dublin Political History Tours

21/08/2024

Big group today from the USA (some at least from Denver, Colorado) with Diarmuid Breatnach as history tour guide.

Among the sites they visited were that of the original Irish Transport & General Workers Union and Bloody Sunday 1913 (and the killing by police of two workers the day before); site of the unveiling of the Irish Tricolour in Dublin in1848; site of the Young Irelanders' newspaper "The Nation" and later of the "Irish Independent" of William Martin Murphy infamy; spot where Connolly was wounded in the ankle; GPO and evacuation route; battleground and ancient street market around Moore Street; the Rotunda and surrounding spots of historical importance.

According to reports, he sang them snatches of some Irish songs too!

He sends this photo of them in Moore Lane, below the monument to The O'Rahilly, who died slowly from 5 British bullets in that laneway, writing a letter (reproduced on the monument) to his wife before he died.

09/06/2024

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The last of the Invincibles to be executed in Kilmainham Gaol was Timothy Kelly, who sang throughout the night before his ex*****on here on 9 June 1883. Kelly was a gifted singer and a member of a church choir. Among the songs he is believed to have sung that night were the ‘Salve Regina’, ‘I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls’ from Balfe’s ‘Bohemian Girl’, and ‘The memory of the past /There is a flow'r that bloometh"from William Wallace’s ‘Maritana’. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJjLkcO4CUM

29/05/2024

USA-based students on political history walking tour Tuesday, fee donated to Save Moore Street From Demolition campaign group.

17/05/2024

https://rebelbreeze.com/2024/05/17/why-bomb-dublin-and-monaghan/

Diarmuid Breatnach (Reading time: 9 mins.) Thirty-five people were killed by bombings on 17th May 1974, the most in one day during the recent 30 Years War but outside of Ireland and even within it,…

27/03/2024

INNIU I REILIG GHLASNAÍONN - SLÁN

27/03/2024