Rare Old Dublin

Rare Old Dublin
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Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781860231544
ISBN-13 : 1860231543
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Book Synopsis Rare Old Dublin by : Frank Hopkins

Download or read book Rare Old Dublin written by Frank Hopkins and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book. Famous sons and daughters of the city also make an appearance: John Pius Boland of the famous milling family, who won two Olympic medals for tennis in 1896 playing in street clothes and leather shoes; Jack Langan, the bare-knuckle boxer of Ballybough; Sir William Cameron, the public health specialist who devised a bounty scheme for captured houseflies in 1913; and the Dolocher, the savage eighteenth-century beast in the form of a pig who turned out to be a man.


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