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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31 August 1913
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Sites of Memory: Gay Dublin
Sylvia Beach and Us
The Stolpersteine of Donore Avenue
Dublin's First Female Councillor
Dublin since the 1970s (with Joseph Brady)
Thomas Kinsella from The Ranch
The Playboy Riots
The Calm Before The Storm
Doggerel for a Departed Dublin
Alderman Tom Kelly and The Tenters (with Cathy Scuffil)
From Misery Hill to Champions' Avenue
Moscow, Marino, Orwell Road
Harry Kernoff: Capturing Dublin (With Kathryn Milligan)
The Handover (With Kate O'Malley)
Kathleen Clarke: A Very Different Lord Mayor
Seizing The Rotunda
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