This December - most likely - marks the centenary of the birth of Anthony Cronin. His memoir of Bohemian Dublin, Dead As Doornails (1976), remains a masterpiece. With Jimmy Murphy, I went through the book and its importance. With thanks to Ian Dunphy at the Museum of Literature Ireland for sound.
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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)
Other People's Lives (with Dermot Bolger)
Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
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