Each year, Dublin City Council hosts the Winter Lights festival, lighting up key buildings and sites around Dublin. Myself and historian Fergus Whelan went for a walk through some of the 2022 locations, from the Marshalsea Prison to Wolfe Tone Park. Did you know that the 'Father of the Scottish Enlightenment' is buried in Dublin, or that Smithfield was once transformed into Checkpoint Charlie? For more see: Dublin Winter Lights.
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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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