At the Twitter Dublin office launch night party at the Academy, Pearse Street, Dublin this evening were Irish tweeting followers and pioneers including second pic, Colm O’Regan of Irish Mammies, and, above, from left: Colm O’Regan, Maia Dunphy, Jamie Heaslip and Paul Buckley, social media manager of Aer Lingus.
No Monster Club – The Best Thing About Us Is We Never Grow Old
The inspirational new single from Bobby, Mark and Paddy of Dublin’s No Monster Club, no strangers to the turntable in Karl’s den our office, in fairness.
And who are RIGHT NOW six shows into their first US tour!
Should you be in America and find yourself in the following locales you may like them live….
Just before the 1798 rebellion the United Irishmen in Dublin published a paper called the Union Star (above) which named suspected informers and British spies. Among those named is Arthur Guinness: “GUINNESS – a brewer at James’s Gate, an active spy….
…/ “We hope our stand will give others the strength to do the same.” Intense legal efforts are now underway to block the eviction #Kanturk
— Eoin English (@EoinBearla) September 25, 2013
TDs who voted for reversal of Dunne Judgment now calling eviction in #Kanturk a disgrace. It is they who removed protection for family home
— Darren O’Keeffe (@Darren606) September 25, 2013
Following on from your Clamper Snout post yesterday, I thought your readers might be interested to know that ‘private thief-taking’ in Dublin has a long and dishonourable history, dating back to the 18th century, when many criminals found it more profitable to turn policeman for reward than to continue with their life of crime.
Sadly, informing was a risky business, as shown by the story of Dublin’s most famous thief-taker, Paul Farrell (‘Gallows Paul’). While on his way to prison for corruption in 1734 Farrell was removed from his cart by the notorious Kevin Street Mob, who sliced off one of his testicles, cut out his underlip and hacked him in several parts of his body before hanging him on a tree in the Liberties where he was found a day and a half later, dead.
Farrell was not the first man to be publicly castrated in Dublin, but he may well have been the last; I haven’t found evidence of any subsequent cases. All this happened very close to the scene of your post. A warning to contemporary clamper informers, perhaps?
We didn’t even know it was on.
