#OTD in 1934 – Singer, guitarist and founder of the Dubliners, Ronnie Drew, is born in Dublin.

16/09/2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Ronnie Drew was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. He was best known for his long beard and his voice, which was once described by Nathan Joseph as “like the sound of coke being crushed under a door”. For more than 30 years, the distinctive voice of the […]

Don’t Go Far | The Young Boys from Dublin Who Ran Away to New York

13/09/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

It was August 1985 and two boys from Darndale, Dublin, aged 10 and 13, hop on a DART train for a ride that will take them a few thousand miles beyond their stop. Keith and Noel were friends. They had a knack for bunking off. One day they hopped on a Dart and skipped out […]

The Oratory of the Sacred Heart

12/09/2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

“Let those who come after to see it that their names never be forgotten.” In July 1847, a group of six Dominican nuns arrived in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) from Cabra Convent. Their job was to open schools in the town so that the young would be educated. They took possession of a house, known as […]

#OTD in 2008 – Death of singer and folk musician, Ronnie Drew.

16/08/2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1941 – A Luftwaffe bomb kills 13 people in Belfast.

07/04/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

The British government appeals to Éamon de Valera for help and he authorises fire brigades from Dublin, Dundalk, Drogheda and Dún Laoghaire to give assistance. On the evening of 7 April 1941, Fifteen German bombers believed to have been from the Kampfgruppe 26 path finder’s left their airfield in Northern Holland near the town of […]

#OTD in 1918 – Over five hundred die in the Irish Sea following the sinking of the R.M.S. Leinster by U-boat 123.

10/10/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Leinster was operating as a passenger ship and mail boat, although most of those who died were soldiers returning from leave, many of them Irishmen who fought in the British Army in World War I. First World War 1914-1918. On one side were Germany, Austro-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria. On the other side were the […]

#OTD in 1934 – Singer, guitarist and founder of the Dubliners, Ronnie Drew, is born in Dublin.

16/09/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Don’t Go Far | The Young Boys from Dublin Who Ran Away to New York

13/09/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Oratory of the Sacred Heart

12/09/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 2008 – Death of singer and folk musician, Ronnie Drew.

16/08/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

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