Ballymun Library will host a public lecture by Dr. James Curry (DCC Historian in Residence) on the remarkable sporting life of Patrick O'Connell. Born and raised in Drumcondra, O'Connell went on to play professional football in England for the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Hull City and Manchester United. After retirement he emigrated to Spain in...
Presented by Dr. James Curry, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence for the North West area. This lecture will discuss the Shelbourne FC career of Henry McKop and tell the story of the Zimbabwean footballer’s year in the League of Ireland, when he helped Shelbourne win several pieces of silverware during the Dublin club’s centenary...
Bilingual poet, essayist and third generation Dubliner, Dr Declan Collinge discusses his recently published literary anthology of Dublin which features literary extracts through the centuries, up to the present day. From Fenian Cycle poems to Swift and Stoker, from Joyce to Keyes and Howard, it also includes such famous Dublin characters as Billy in the...
It takes time to build a literary tradition. In Dublin: A Writer’s City, author Chris Morash sets out to produce a literary map of the city, area by area, looking at the ways in which knowing the literary heritage of our own neighbourhoods enriches our experience of living in the city. In this talk, he’ll...
