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#OTD in 1906 – Birth of playwright, Samuel Beckett, in Foxrock, Co Dublin.

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” –Samuel Beckett An Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. During the 1930s and 1940s he wrote his first novels and short stories. He wrote a trilogy of novels in…

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Stillorgan I hardly knew ya by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: A very agricultural view of Stillorgan in County Dublin today from the lens of Mr. Morgan, I doubt anyone on here has ever seen Stillorgan looking so rural, so out in the countryside? The object of the commission appears to have been the church and rectory but as usual with Morgan images it contains so much more! Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection Date: ca. July 1954 NLI Ref: NPA MOR195 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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When you're in a hurry to catch a train, you'll park anywhere? by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Monkstown in South County Dublin has a fine promenade, with the Irish Sea on the one side and the Dublin to Dun Laoghaire rail line on the other. This poor captain found himself on a lee shore, and was unable to extricate his ship before it was beached. There must surely be some news reports of the event as it obviously attracted attention? Photographers: J.J. Clarke Collection: Clarke Photographic Collection Date: Around 1895? NLI Ref: CLAR106 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Moss on a Wall

A close-cropped clump,

Clung tightly to brick,

A myriad of graded greens,

And invitingly fuzzy,

Dotingly dotted with,

Droplets of trickle-still water.

Like a bunker-bound soldier,

Hunched up to the bluster,

Of wind up over,

The bundle is bunched,

Against the rain rough,

On its little green feathers.

In its own time,

And,

In its own way,

The,

Moss,

Blooms.

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#OTD in Irish History | 7 April:

AD 30 – A favourite exhibit in Dublin’s National Museum is the 12th Century Cross of Cong. The True Cross that was brought to Ireland and displayed in different places around the country. The cross is so-called because it was kept in the Augustinian Friary at Cong, Co Mayo, for centuries. It was made to enshrine a relic of the True Cross, known from written sources to have been acquired in AD…

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#OTD in 1883 – Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, writer under the pseudonym ‘An Seabhac’ and promoter of the Irish language is born in Dingle, Co Kerry.

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha was born in the Gaeltacht near Dingle in Co Kerry in 1883. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha went on to become an organiser for Conradh na Gaeilge, cycling all over the countryside to set up branches and promote the Irish language. As a writer, he took the pen-name ‘An Seabhac’, the Hawk, writing books including ’An Baile Seo ‘Gainne’ (1913) and ‘Jimín Mháire Thaidhg’ (1921), both of…

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#OTD in 1896 – Birth of stage and film actor, Arthur Shields (younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald), in Portobello, Co Dublin.

While Sean Connolly claimed the unfortunate title of being the first rebel fatality, others were luckier and escaped from Easter Week, 1916 with their lives. For Arthur Shields, his role in the Rising was to become merely an interesting titbit in what was a fascinating career as an actor at home and in the US. Arthur was born into a poor family in Portobello, Dublin in 1896. As one of eight…

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#OTD in 1981 – The Stardust Ballroom in Artane, Dublin goes up in flames; forty-eight young people are killed and more than 100 are injured.

Forty-eight young people die in a fire at the Stardust club in Artane, Dublin. After sitting for 122 days and hearing evidence from three hundred and sixty-three witnesses, a government report found that the fire was ‘probably started deliberately,’ a finding long deemed contentious. The 2009 Report of Reopened Enquiry found that “on a prima facie basis: (1) that neither the Tribunal nor the…

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