39 years old today! ‘Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid and you decked some fucking blackshirt…’ 💚

Little did I know what a fighter Kelly Harrington was when we asked her to re-enact the hoisting of the flag what the Irish rebel Molly O’Reilly did at the lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising. Kelly would be come a world champion & Olympic gold medallist back to back.🏅🏅👏👏👏

Today in 1979, British aristocrat Lord Louis Mountbatten (79) was assassinated when the Provisional IRA blew up his boat in Mullaghmore, Sligo. Mountbatten, the grand-uncle of the British King Charles, was a retired Royal Navy officer and a Supreme Allied Commander in the Second

Remembering the great Alice Coltrane who was born on this day in 1937. An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane was also one of the foremost exponents of spiritual jazz. Her eclectic music proved widely influential both within and

EarToTheGlobe at 10pm: Kampire, Africa Negra, K.O.G., Santrofi, LesAmazones, El Khat, RusanFiliztek, Anne Butterss, Hermeto Pascoal, Synthesizing the Silk Road, Youthsayers, Errol Linton, JerronPaxton, Staples Jr, MarcosValle, TiganaSantana, JakeBlount, GillianWelch #dublincityfm

This is the last cigarette 18 year old student Kevin Barry smoked before being hanged at Mountjoy Gaol in 1920. Dublin-born Barry spent a lot of his childhood in Carlow. He was an IRA volunteer who attended Belvedere College and UCD to study medicine. On the 20th of September,

A nauseating blend of body odour, carbolic soap, and vomit. Walls are bare brick, high Georgean ceilings frescoed with black mould and damp. There's not much in the way of housekeeping or hygiene. An exhausted-looking woman with a headscarf and deep-set dark eyes speaks to us

📢 **Calling All Restaurants!** 🍽️ We're reaching out to the wonderful restaurant community in hopes of your support! 🏙️ At Muslim Sisters of Éire, we run a weekly homeless soup run, providing hot meals and care to those in need. We're currently looking for generous restaurants

And here it is. First look at Shane MacGowan AnPost Iconic Irish voices Irish stamp. Released tomorrow 12th September. Shane would be elated. Buy at Irish post offices or online at AnPost #postapogue

ITMA intern Andrew Caden digitising reels that belonged to Paddy Reynolds.

New 4 track EP Wilderflowers out 18th October on Bohemia Records 1. Wilderflowers 2. Kingdom of Stingers 3. Park Slope Takes 4. Wooden Is The Altar pre-save ⬇️ lnk.fuga.com/wilderflowers?… Live in Vicar St 26.10.24

To get yiz in the mood for our Vicar Street show on Oct 26th, als release a new digital only e.p, Wilderflowers, this Friday. Presave on Poxify or you digital poison of choice. Cover by the bould Colm Kelly

Today, in 1688, a survivor of Oliver Cromwell’s deportation to Barbados as an indentured servant became the last person to be hanged as a witch in Boston, Massachusetts. Ann Glover's nightmarish life story is one of religious prejudice, colonial oppression, and the hysteria of

Produced by the late Bill Ochs, ‘Micho Russell: Rarities and Old Favorites 1949-1993’ is a double-CD featuring a compilation of field and studio recordings of the great Micho Russell. The CD is now for sale on ITMA’s shop: itma.ie/shop/micho-rus…

View Inside the chamber this morning. 📷Joanne #Livestream #NewgrangeSolstice #Newgrange #Solstice #BruNaBoinne

My mother was the person to leave the tenements on Foley Street 1980s. She spent 2 years without electricity, gas, & water. Dublin Corporation offered to house her out in the suburbs she refused she wanted to be housed with in the community she was born in.

This was never a war it is a deliberate annihilation of Palestinians, it has been from the beginning

Absolutely speechless at the audacity of Katherine Zappone attempting to re-enter the political sphere with a €79,614 per annum plus expenses Oireachtas seat—after refusing to appear before the very same Oireachtas foreign affairs committee three years ago. Zappone epitomised

1980s, My brother Christy at a housing protest on Talbot Street. My mother was living in the tenements on Foley Street she was looking to move out. The guy on the motor bike tried to drive into the protesters. Christy knocked him off his bike he was arrested & let go, no charges.

This is our newest arrival. Got a call about her at 6am this morning about a big dog in trouble on the streets. She’s in a bad way but I’m hopeful we can help her. There were some very surprising discoveries… (1/8) 🧵