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100 unusual facts about Dublin


1663 in Ireland

Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre), the first English language play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage.

Albert Bruce-Joy

Son of William Bruce Joy, MD, Bruce-Joy was born in Dublin but educated in Offenbach, Paris and at King's College London.

Aleksandr Rodzyanko

His brother Paul Rodyzinako became an instructor at the Irish cavalry school in Dublin and later emigrating to America.

Alexander McNeill

McNeill was educated Wimbledon, Surrey, England and at Trinity College, Dublin.

Ambrose Bury

He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, the Royal School in Raphoe, Dublin High School, Trinity College, and the King's Inn in Dublin, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and a Master of Arts in 1893.

Anthony Dopping

Anthony junior was educated at St Patrick's Cathedral School and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1655.

Anthony Henniker-Gotley

From 1926 he went into business in Durban until 1933 and then became Bursar and assistant master at St Columba's College, Dublin, from 1934 to 1936.

Anthony Norris Groves

In 1826, while continuing his dentistry in Exeter, he enrolled as an external student of theology at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to ordination in the Church of England and appointment with the Church Missionary Society.

Antoine Godeau

Of this work Johann Baptist Alzog says that "although written in an attractive and popular style, it is lacking in solid worth and original research" (Manual of Universal History, I, Dublin, 1900, 33).

Army Mutiny

Dalton was born in 1903 and grew up around Columba's Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.

Avoca Hockey Club

Avoca Hockey Club (Cumann Haca Abhóca in Irish) is a hockey club based in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland.

Baron Rosmead

Bryan Robinson, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin.

Beaumont Hospital

Beaumont Hospital, Dublin a 820 bed public hospital in the Republic of Ireland, founded in 1987

Ben Schiffer

Schiffer read English and History at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a First-Class Honours B.A. in 2006.

Between the Canals

The film follows three small-time criminals as they pinball their way about Dublin on a boozy Saint Patrick's Day.

Billy Whelan

On 8 December 2006 the railway bridge on Fassaugh Road/Dowth Avenue junction in Cabra, Dublin 7 close to Dalymount Park was renamed in his honour.

Brandon Anderson

Anderson attended Pulaski County High School in Dublin, Virginia.

Brendan Grace

Born in the heart of Dublin in 1951, Brendan was raised in the inner city Liberties neighborhood.

Cairo Gang

However, the IRA Intelligence Department (IRAID) was one step ahead of them and was receiving information from numerous well-placed sources, including Lily Merin, who was the confidential code clerk for British Army Intelligence Centre in Parkgate Street, and Sergeant Jerry Mannix, stationed in Donnybrook.

Caroline Crachami

A week later her real father, Louis Emmanuel Crachami, a musician at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, arrived in London and began legal attempts to retrieve his daughter's body for burial.

Clofazimine

Clofazimine, initially known as B663, was first synthesised in 1954 by a team with the scientists J.G. Belton, M.L. Conalty, Seán O'Sullivan and Dermot Twomey led by Dr Vincent Barry, from Sunday's Well in Cork at Trinity College, Dublin as an anti-tuberculosis drug.

Collegiate School Celbridge

The building is of Georgian architecture and its most characteristic feature is the triple gates.It was designed by architect Thomas Burgh who also built the Royal Barracks and famous library building at Trinity College both in Dublin on fifty acres of land to accommodate forty female who were to be "lodged, clothed and dieted" there.

Dan Breen

Another incident occurred in Dublin when he shot his way out through a British military cordon in the northern suburb of Drumcondra (Fernside) in which he and volunteer Seán Treacy escaped only for Treacy to be killed soon after.

Drumcondra

Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland, a residential area on the Northside of Dublin.

Dublin Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland national cathedral in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Maryland

The travel pattern of the county was from Bush River up to Churchville, into Dublin and to the Susquehanna River; there was no Route 1 until later years.

Dublin, Missouri

Today all that remains to mark the existence of the community is a single residence, a large MFA Oil propane storage tank, a few dead-end driveways to former residences, and foundation remnants along Coon Creek marking the former location of the local grist mill.

Dublin, Ohio

Although its earliest settlements date back to 1802, the village that came to be known as Dublin didn't begin to take shape until the arrival of the Sells family of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Dublin, Texas

American jurist and 1924 Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee George C. Butte married and resided in Dublin for several years and is interred there at Live Oak Cemetery.

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Local radio stations include KSTV-FM, KEQX and KTRL (FM), all licensed to Dublin or Stephenville, with studios in Erath County.

Dublin's Q102

The "take over" involved a defacement of Lite 102.2's website and the constant playing of Mah Nà Mah Nà during the transition period.

Edward Parrott

He was educated at St. Paul's College, Cheltenham and then became an elementary schoolteacher, studying for a MA degree at Trinity College, Dublin at the same time.

European route E01

It follows the M50 through the outer suburbs of Dublin until it meets the short M11 motorway near Shankill.

Free State Intelligence Department – Oriel House

Witnesses saw them being shot dead at 'The Thatch', Puck's Lane, (now Yellow Road), Whitehall, Dublin.

GAA 125

Events were launched at Croke Park, Dublin, with the opening match of the National Football League 2009 between Dublin and Tyrone on 31 January 2009.

Gary Clark

Clark attended and played high school football at Pulaski County High School in Dublin, Virginia.

Glenmalure

Shamrock Rovers' former football stadium in Milltown, Dublin, was named Glenmalure Park in the 1930s by the then owners, the Cunninghams, who had family connections with Glenmalure.

Grace Gifford

Grace Gifford Plunkett died suddenly, and alone, on 13 December 1955 in an apartment in South Richmond Street.

Guy S. Houston

Houston, a resident of San Ramon, served as the Mayor of Dublin and was a real estate executive prior to serving in the Assembly.

Hedgehunter

Hedgehunter was born in January 1996 on the Tully Hill Stud in Dublin.

Hugh Vincent

This was not an unusual occurrence for the time, and Wales turned to Trinity College, Dublin to supply a stand-in from the university's rugby team.

In the Wet

The graduates of the National University of Ireland and of Trinity College are still represented in the upper house of Ireland's parliament.

Irish Go Association

The IGA was founded in 1989, by the merging of two Dublin clubs - Trinity College and Collegians Chess and Go Club.

Irish Law Times

The journal is now published 20 times per year in Dublin, Ireland, by Thomson Round Hall.

Isango Portobello

Isango has since performed The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo in Dublin, Chichester, Canterbury, Tokyo, Singapore, Johannesburg, Rotterdam and Paris.

Jean Joseph Amable Humbert

The expedition was able to land in Ireland at Killala on Thursday 23 August 1798, meeting with initial success in the battle of Castlebar, and subsequently declaring a Republic of Connacht, with hopes of taking Dublin.

John Balfe

Balfe was the son of James Balfe and Sara Sutherland his wife, daughter of the last Lord Duffus, was born at Sallybrook, Drumcondra, Ireland.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

Lord Clare died at home, 6 Ely Place near St. Stephen's Green, Dublin on 28 January 1802 and was buried in St. Peter's Churchyard.

Kim Chernin

In 1963, her only child, Larissa, was born while she was studying at Trinity College, Dublin.

Lady Jaye

She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and also did graduate work in Trinity College in Dublin, before graduating from intelligence school at Fort Holabird.

Lancelot Robinson

His only first-class appearance came in 1934, against Ireland at College Park, Dublin.

Leon Best

Best qualifies to play for the Republic of Ireland through his mother, who is from Bluebell, Dublin.

Lily Castel

It was a race against time for the pair, not least when they arrived in Dublin to find that the stage layout at the Gaiety Theatre was unsuitable for the routine they had rehearsed.

Louis O. Coxe

Coxe then moved to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1956, where he remained (except for brief appointments at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the University of Aix-Marseilles, France) as head of the English department until his death in 1993 after 11 years suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Mamie Cadden

Cadden started serving her term in Mountjoy Prison, but was declared insane and moved to the Criminal Lunatic asylum in Dundrum, Dublin, where she died of a heart attack in 1959.

Marjorie Grene

Ruth Grene, a professor of plant physiology at Virginia Tech, and Nicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

Maryfield College

Maryfield College is a voluntary secondary school for girls within the free secondary education system, situated in the Drumcondra/Whitehall area.

Mount Humphrey Lloyd

He named this feature for the Rev. Dr. Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, an active member of the British Association which promoted interest in magnetic and meteorological research in the Antarctic.

Murray Pittock

He has also been a visiting fellow at universities worldwide including: Notre Dame (2014), Charles University, Prague (2010); Trinity College, Dublin (2008); the University of Wales in advanced Welsh and Celtic studies (2002) and Yale (1998, 2000–01).

Naimee Coleman

Naimee Coleman is a singer/songwriter from Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland.

National Road Yard Sale

Started in 2003 by Patricia McDaniel, the owner of The Old Storefront Antiques on Route 40 in Dublin, Indiana, the National Road Yard Sale offers a unique opportunity to not only travel down a road that is over 200 years old, but also to get a taste of the unique communities along the way.

NeuroSky

Because NeuroSky also produces research grade EEG technology it has partnerships with a number of universities and research intuitions including: Johns Hopkins, Brown University, Duke University, University of California San Diego, San Jose State University, Dongguk University, University of Glasgow, The Hong Kong PolyTechnic University, and Trinity College, Dublin.

Newgate Prison, Dublin

It was relocated to 'Little Green', present-day St. Michan's Park near Smithfield, and officially retained the old name.

Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland

When these premises were declared unsafe in 1986, the parish transferred to a house chapel in Artane.

P. Michael Conneally

In 1989, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science honoris causa degree by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Paddy Glynn

Glynn was born in Gort, County Galway, Ireland and educated at the French College, Blackrock and Trinity College, Dublin.

Pat Dunne

He left Milltown to join Manchester United in May 1964 for a fee of £10,500, winning a league title medal in his first season.

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Dunne played in Dublin with Stella Maris Football Club, a club that competes in the Dublin and District Schoolboys League, in Drumcondra before playing in England for Everton.

Patrick McKeown

In 1997, shortly after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin with a Master Degree in Economics, Political Science and Social Studies, came across a publication in The Irish Independent, which was describing experimental breathing technique discovered in Russia by a Moscow physiologist Konstantin Buteyko.

Patrick Walshe

He has exhibited these paintings in Russborough House, courtesy of the Sir Alfred Beit Foundation in 2009 and 2010, The Orangery, Holland Park, London 2010 and most importantly in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in April 2012.

Paul Davys

Elrington Ball suggests that Paul's rise to prominence was due to his first marriage to Margaret Ussher, granddaughter of the highly respected Sir William Ussher of Donnybrook, Clerk of the Council.

Philip Crosthwaite

In 1843 he returned to Ireland to complete his education, and entered Trinity College, Dublin.

Randolph Healy

After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin.

Redlands East Valley High School

Groups have performed and competed at places including San Diego, Las Vegas, Sydney, London, San Francisco, Washington DC, Dublin, and Long Beach.

Richard Maunsell

After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, he began an apprenticeship at the Inchicore works of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GSWR) under H. A. Ivatt in 1886, completing his training at Horwich Works on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (as Nigel Gresley had done before him).

Ruth Gilligan

Gilligan's father is an accountant and her mother a speech therapist, her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family live in Blackrock.

Ruth Grier

Before leaving Dublin she obtained a degree in public administration at Trinity College.

Sébastien Masi

In 2010, Masi and Batt took ownership of Locks Brasserie in Portobello, Dublin.

Sergio Peraza

In 1988 he joined the International Conference on Public Sculpture at Trinity College.

Silver Spring Foods

In 2009, the company purchased Kelchner's Horseradish Products of Dublin, Pennsylvania.

Some Kind of Kick

Some kind of kick is the debut album from Dublin rock band The Things, released in 2008.

St Stephen's Church, Dublin

It was originally conceived as a chapel-of-ease for the parish of St. Peter's, which was the largest Church of Ireland parish in Dublin.

St. Fintan's High School

Fintans High School is a boys secondary school, which is located in the suburb of Sutton in Fingal County, Ireland.

Superquinn

The business was founded in 1960 as 'Quinns Supermarkets' in Dundalk by Feargal Quinn, and the company headquarters were later moved to Sutton, Dublin.

Teacher Man

During the time of the book McCourt went to Trinity College to try to take his doctorate, but he ended up leaving his first wife because of the strain.

The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly

The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a poem in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumor which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with each retelling of events.

Thomas Bateson

He is said to have been organist of Chester Cathedral in 1599, and is believed to have been the first musical graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.

Thomond deeds

The Thomond deeds are Irish deeds relating to lands and property in Thomond, County Clare, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Tommaso Giordani

His last opera, The Cottage, Festival, was produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 28 Nov., 1796.

Tommy Eglington

Before joining Rovers, Eglington played as a junior with both Munster Victoria and Distillery of Drumcondra and helped the latter club win the FAI Intermediate Cup in 1942.

Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Dublin, hall of residence of the University of Dublin, Trinity College

Trinity Washington University

Trinity College (not to be confused with the unrelated Trinity College (Connecticut) or Trinity College, Dublin) was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as a Catholic college for women.

Volvo Trucks

Today, Volvo produces class 8 Volvo trucks in its Dublin, Virginia plant and class 8 Mack truck models in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

What Is Life?

The book is based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943 and published in 1944.

What Richard Did

Richard Karlsen is the golden-boy athlete, and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of Dublin south side teenagers.

Wilhelm Reich in Hell

The book is one of Wilson's 35 volumes, and the play has been staged several times, with productions in Santa Cruz, Dublin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

William Congreve

Congreve was educated at Trinity College in Dublin; there he met Jonathan Swift, who would be his friend for the remainder of his life.

William Langland

The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 212).

William R. Ferris

He attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, for one year from 1965 to 1966, and returned to the U.S. to continue his graduate studies.

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom

The film follows his adventures in trying to be understood in Dublin, where most of the population has little or no grasp of the language.


2012 Dublin Senior Football Championship

UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.

21 Years On

Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 1983, this was the first album by The Dubliners to feature Seán Cannon, who joined the group when Luke Kelly could no longer perform regularly due to a brain tumour.

Adelaide Plains Football League

Football was certainly played in the other towns of Mallala, Dublin and Two Wells at that time with those clubs all officially forming in 1908.

Apollon XI

She was chartered by Burns & Laird Lines Ltd. for the service between Belfast and Liverpool, also from Cork to Fishguard, Dublin to Liverpool and for the service Glasgow - Dublin - Liverpool.

Bellingham baronets

The Bellingham Baronetcy, of Dubber in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 18 March 1667 for Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Receiver-General and Vice-Treasurer of Ireland and Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Billy Whelan

The campaign to have the bridge renamed was initiated and organised by members of the Cabra, GAA club, Naomh Fionbarra (gaelic spelling) (St. Finbarr's) and sanctioned by Dublin City Council in early 2006.

Celia de Fréine

Also in 2009 the Abbey Theatre commissioned her short play Casadh which was given a rehearsed reading at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin and at An Chultúrlann in Belfast as part of the Gach Áit Eile series.

Christopher Hamilton

His father's family were traditionally Anglo-Irish and were well settled in the County Dublin area, his grandfather was Hans Hamilton.

Corry

Eoghan Corry (b. 1961) Irish columnist, travel writer, author of sports history, and founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.

Dermot St. John Gogarty

Dermot St. John Gogarty, RIAI, RIBA, (born 1908) was a well-known Irish architect of Dublin and Galway active throughout mid-twentieth-century Ireland.

Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne

After Dunne graduated from high school in 1871, he was sent to Ireland to attend Trinity College in Dublin.

Eugene O'Mahoney

Eugene O'Mahoney ( 1899 Dublin - 21 June 1951 Dublin ) was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.

Frank Fahy

Fahy qualified as a barrister in 1927 at King's Inns, Dublin and also taught at the Christian Brothers school in Tralee.

Fromund Le Brun

He bought Roebuck Castle, in the south of Dublin in 1261; it is possible the purchase caused him financial loss since he was rumoured to be in heavy debt shortly before his death.

Gary Arbuthnot

Gary Arbuthnot gives regular recitals for Fred Olsen and Cunard Cruise Lines and he has also performed as a soloist at venues including the South Bank Centre in London, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Pollack Hall in Montreal and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

George Papworth

He also added the portico to Kenure House in Rush in North county Dublin in about 1840; the portico is still standing but the rest of the house was demolished in 1978.

Gerry Hutch

Born in central Dublin, his criminal career started at the age of 10 when he joined and later led the 'Bugsy Malone Gang' of inner city youngsters (named after the fictional feature film) whose crimes in the 1970s included "jump-overs": they would jump over bank counters, grab whatever cash they could and run out the door.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

Harry O'Donovan

The character Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".

Herbert Hasler

Hasler was born in Dublin on 27 February 1914, the youngest son of Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hasler (a Royal Army Medical Corps quartermaster), and his wife, Annie Georgina (née Andrews).

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke, (1880–1963) was Dublin city architect for Dublin Corporation, now, Dublin City Council from 1922-1945.

Indian Brethren

On March 9, 1899, following the Dublin example, four men congregated at the residence of Kuttiyil Mathai, Kumbanad, for the breaking of bread, without a priest.

John's Lane Church

In 1316 Edward Bruce marched towards Dublin at the head of his army, with the intention of besieging the city.

Jordan Frieda

He had a small part in Steven Spielberg's TV mini series Band of Brothers and took the lead role in a controversial American TV movie called Prince William, filmed in 2002, in Dublin, Ireland, about Prince William of Wales, with whom Frieda attended Eton College.

Joseph George Holman

Holman went to Dublin, where he took for a time a share with Frederick Edward Jones in the management.

Lodowick Bryskett

Bryskett describes a party of friends met at his cottage near Dublin, among whom were Dr. John Long, archbishop of Armagh, Captain Christopher Carleill, Captain Thomas Norris, Captain Warham St Leger, and Mr. Edmund Spenser, ‘once your lordship's secretary.

Martin Clancy

In the early 1980s Clancy formed Irish band In Tua Nua alongside Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinny Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Paul Byrne and Steve Wickham.

Martin Duffy

He left Irish national television in 1989 to become a freelance editor and in 1995 found funding for his first feature film, The Boy from Mercury, a film set in 1950s Dublin about a young boy whose life revolves around the escapism of Saturday afternoon Flash Gordon serials at his local cinema.

Mediterranean Division

Therefore, he positioned both his battlecruisers and Dublin at the west end of the Strait of Messina.

Michael Arne

His opera The Maid of the Vale premiered at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 12 February 1775, and in December 1776 he was engaged by Thomas Ryder to produce Cymon in Dublin.

Moneygall GAA

The President's entourage braved gale force winds to fly from the Phoenix Park in Dublin in two Chinook and two Black Hawk helicopters.

MS Isle of Inishmore

Isle of Inishmore began her career on Irish Ferries' Dublin-Holyhead route as the flagship of the company's fleet, replacing the 1995 built Isle of Innisfree.

MV Kerlogue

The British Naval Attaché in Dublin reported to the Director of Naval Intelligence that it was "unfortunate from a British point of view" that Fortune had been involved in the Kerlogue incident as he was "always ready to pass on any information in his possession".

Patrick Denis O'Donnell

Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness, and his remains were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, following a funeral with military honours and a pall-bearer party from the 5th Infantry Battalion, whose insignia he designed, and in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Lt. General James Sreenan, and accompanied by surviving family members, relatives and friends.

Perry Como's Christmas Concert

Recorded live at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, before an audience of 4,500, including Irish President Mary Robinson, it was also recorded on videotape and aired on PBS.

Rural electrification

In 2005, a musical about the rural electrification of Ireland, The Wiremen, written by composer Shay Healy, directed by Matt Ryan with musical direction by Julian Kelly, and produced by John McColgan/Moya Doherty of Riverdance fame, ran for six weeks at The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.

Shrewsbury Road

Shrewsbury Road (Bóthar Shrewsbury in Irish) is a street in Dublin, Ireland and was the sixth-most-expensive street in the world in 2007, ahead of more well-known streets such as the Via Suvretta in St. Moritz and Carolwood Drive in Beverly Hills.

The Bells of Dublin

#"The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve" (with the bell-ringers of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin) (Paddy Moloney)

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

The Radiators from Space

The band played, including with guest vocalist Gavin Friday and guitarist Brush Shiels, at a tribute concert for Chevron on August 24, 2013 at the Olympia Theatre (Dublin).

Thomas Lancaster

His consecration took place, at the hands of Archbishop Loftus of Dublin, Hugh Brady the Bishop of Meath, and Robert Daly the Bishop of Kildare, on 13 June 1568, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

Traffic Blues

The series was filmed over six months, putting the Dublin Metropolitan division based in Dublin Castle, the Louth division taking in stations in Drogheda and Dundalk and the Donegal division focusing on Burnfoot and Letterkenny areas in the centre of attention.

Ubi Dwyer

He was said to have been asked by John Lennon to help set up a commune on an island which may have been related to the Island Commune that he ran on Merrion Road in Dublin in 1970.

Yvonne Farrell

Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been visiting professor at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008.