1950s

Podcast: The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin

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Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin’s North Inner City. Born in the 1950s and raised in the historic heart of what was once Europe’s largest red-light district, the Monto, Fagan witnessed firsthand the rapid transformation, and often erasure, of the surrounding Dublin tenements and their culture. He is, to … Read more

A Monk Manqué – ‘what a young girl in love will say to keep her man’

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Disregarding chronological order, this is the tenth episode of A Monk Manqué, Bob Quinn’s unpublished (unpublishable?) memoir A Monk Manqué, following A Monk Manqué – Prologue A Monk Manqué – Thaura Mornton Making Films Early Days in RTÉ Waiting for Colonel Ghaddafi Culchies – An Excerpt from A Monk Manqué Last Days in RTÉ – … Read more