In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy arrived into a city in crisis. As Dublin tenements seemed to be collapsing to the touch, the visit of a U.S President was a welcome distraction. In some ways, it was a distraction for him, too. History recalls New Ross, but in Dublin there were significant moments, captured brilliantly by reporters and writers like the poet Louis MacNeice.
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The Anatomy of a Massacre
Portals, Clocks and Cows
The Isle of Wight on Emmet Road
The Battle of Tallaght: 'Yankee Fenians' and 1867
'Then Mount Jerome for the Protestants.'
The Divine Mission of Discontent (Jim Larkin Part II)
The Rising of the Moon (Jim Larkin Part I)
Before Mosley: The British Fascisti in Dublin
Flying Fists and Union Jacks
From Ten Till Dusk: 200 Years of the RHA (with Cristín Leach)
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Asylum: Inside Grangegorman
Napoleon's Toothbrush
Bringing Light to O'Connell Street (with Nicola Pierce)
'And Beckett plays the gong.'
Roger Doyle: The Godfather of Irish Electronic Music
The Irish Supernatural (with Kathy Rose O'Brien and Brian J. Showers)
Dead as Doornails
Other People's Lives (with Dermot Bolger)
Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
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