Above from left: Grace and Daniel Lambert with Lord Mayor of Dublin, Micheal MacDonncha yesterday
Yesterday
Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Micheal MacDonncha unveiled a plaque in honour of Bang Bang (Thomas Dudley) at the site of his grave in St. Josephs Graveyard.
Bang Bang referred to the key as his Colt 45 and would roam the city ‘shooting’ bystanders. Many acted as if they had been slain.
The idea for the memorial came from brother and sister Grace and Daniel Lambert, who run the Bang Bang Café in Phisborough,
In fairness.
Previously: With A Bang Bang Not A Whimper
Pics: Bang Bang, Eamonn Farrell
It’s not a proper bandwagon until Damo or Maser have hopped on board.
Do you have anything positive say? Ever?
No he doesn’t because he’s just a miserable pedal and cranker.
Great spirit, well done Grace and Daniel.
+1
His actual key sits in the City Archive on Pearse St – you can see oul Nelson’s head there too.
They are pretty rude in Bang Bang. Top notch food and coffee though. Yum
I thought that too at first but now I just think they’re being very serious in their jobs. A friendly “thanks” and “see ya” always gets a pleasant response back
I’d like to see Grace in her own pants but wearing Daniel’s shoes. That would have been a more fitting tribute to Bang Bang.
Great job, a lovely sentiment.
The Shinners know all about bang bang. Would you look at the state of MacDonncha, horrible looking creature.
You must be a real oil painting!
It’s not hard to be better looking than that goblin. You must be horrid.
Joking aside, is there a mental illness thing here nobody seems to have mentioned yet?
His clothes ARE a bit strange but I’m sure that’s just Daniel
Definite lack of Dublin street characters these days. When I landed in Dublin there was Mary Dunne (the singing/dancing lady) and Thom McGinty the Diceman now both dead.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tributes-pour-in-as-oconnell-streets-dancing-lady-mary-dunne-dies-at-87-29990716.html
Sure there are still characters in Dublin.
I saw someone express themselves in their own idiom on this very site only yesterday.
There are six characters in Dublin
oh dear
good man! :-)
Plenty about – they probably haven’t been iconised yet.
I miss the oul lockhards though – did they just die off?
The lycra-clad cyclist mafia usurped them
There was another Bang Bang around the Armagh/Louth area who had the same impulse to shoot people with a key/finger etc and who had experienced shell shock during the war/emergency. PTSD before it was cool.
Name that syndrome!
Gulf War Syndrome. Didn’t exist until the 90s.