cant believe you got that article.had it sellotaped to my bedroom wall and remember the faces like it was yesterday.NOW if you could unearth a pictue of REVOLVER that would be ace.ex mod who runs rathmines glass,PAT,his cousin was lead singer with REVOLVER,think he was in RADIATORS as well.have their single.great band.
used to have that Sunday World piece sellotaped to the bedroom wall.remember a couple of us in summer of 1976…the scorcher,being in Galway and the faces of locals who thought they’d seen some chjarcters from star trek or planet of the apes.The only folks who talked to me and my brother were two English girls who had some idea what we were about.Hibernia magazine had bits on punks and indeed skinheads in the early seventies if anyone cares to root around old archived copies.Also the limerick leaders had great articles on limerick’s skinhead problem and Limerick F.C’s attempts to deal with them.Also the Dundalk Argus and Sligo paper as there was big problems with skinheads there.
Earlier this year, I posted 10 ‘then and now’ photos from Temple Bar, Dublin. I used photographs from 1985. These were featured in the Irish Architectural Archive’s Temple Bar 15 […]
Joe Walsh, a Co Down native, founded Joe Walsh Tours (JWT) in 1961 in a tiny Nassau Street office in Dublin. JWT started with religious pilgrimages to the likes of […]
The metal shell of the Gasometer on South Lotts Rd, Ringsend, Dublin 4. Photo taken in 1988 by Maureen Devitt RIP. The Gasometer dates back to 1885. Now known as […]
In October 2006, the Temple Bar Cultural Trust and the Irish Architectural Archive produced an exhibiton and catalogue called Temple Bar 15 to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the architectural […]
From 30 years ago, here are 3 ads for 2 different alcopop brands sold in Ireland. These ads appeared in Irish style magazine d Side in 1996 and were digitised […]
Christmas in Ireland was published in 1985 by World Book Encyclopedia Inc. from Chicago, USA. We’ve digitised a selection of photos by Bob Willoughby, Fionnbar Callanan, Mary Rowley and a […]
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cant believe you got that article.had it sellotaped to my bedroom wall and remember the faces like it was yesterday.NOW if you could unearth a pictue of REVOLVER that would be ace.ex mod who runs rathmines glass,PAT,his cousin was lead singer with REVOLVER,think he was in RADIATORS as well.have their single.great band.
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used to have that Sunday World piece sellotaped to the bedroom wall.remember a couple of us in summer of 1976…the scorcher,being in Galway and the faces of locals who thought they’d seen some chjarcters from star trek or planet of the apes.The only folks who talked to me and my brother were two English girls who had some idea what we were about.Hibernia magazine had bits on punks and indeed skinheads in the early seventies if anyone cares to root around old archived copies.Also the limerick leaders had great articles on limerick’s skinhead problem and Limerick F.C’s attempts to deal with them.Also the Dundalk Argus and Sligo paper as there was big problems with skinheads there.
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