My letter in today’s Irish Times about the statues in O’Connell Street.

Presume we're all backing meetingofthewaters 🐴

NEW EPISODE of Three Castles Burning:

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The Battle of Tallaght: 'Yankee Fenians' and 1867

To the Dublin press, the American Civil War veterans in the city cut an unusual shape. These ‘Yankee’ characters looked different, but they also behaved differently.…

Nowhere better to be on the 13th of April than Fishamble Street...

All set for my exhibition Molesworth Gallery open to the public from Friday 19th April for one month. What is the Stars? The result of my experience as artist in residence with Druid Theatre during their outstanding DruidO’Casey production Abbey Theatre Town Hall Theatre Lyric Theatre Belfast & #NY

Donal Fallon Plaque on the site

Delighted to be part of this new History Ireland special on Theobald Wolfe Tone. Contributors include John Mulqueen, Guy Beiner, Marianne Elliott and more. In shops now.

Donal Fallon Do you know it’s been a big influence on the paintings of Paddy Critchley? (You probably do). Particularly his recent solo shows (called Ragged Trousers) paddycritchley.com/about-2/

🚨 🚨 🚨 'A very prominently displayed watermelon slice'🚨 🚨 🚨

Might have to bring back this look! Backstage at the SFX 1985 from the archives of Dublin’s legendary street photographer Tony O’Shea 💚 #tbt

Sean Kearney was surely a contender for the longest serving barman in the city. Having worked in the International, he spent more than five decades in The Castle Lounge, working with Joe Grogan before Kennedy and Smith acquired the pub in the 1970s. He is immortalised in the…

Richard Avedon photographed Francis Bacon in Paris OTD in 1979.

A children’s book about Sylvia Beach!
Seen at the Libreria Per Ragazzi, Bologna.

Working on an episode of the podcast around 1867. The returning American Civil War veterans in Dublin cut an unusual shape. Their beards are one thing constantly mentioned. One source describes:

'Americanised Celts - they were tall, pale-faced and bearded.... I found that for…