On 12th October 1917, the steam ship WM Barkley having set out from Dublin Port just hours earlier was torpedoed just off the Kish lighthouse. Five of the 13 crew members on board were killed, and the others were lucky to survive. Among those to lose their lives was Thomas Murphy of Sheriff Street, who …
Daily Archive: October 8, 2017
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Top Posts & Pages
- "Matt Talbot, James Joyce, and a very different Pint of Plain."
- "Take away our hearts o' stone..." - Powerful Sean O'Casey monologues performed in New York
- Up in Smoke – the tragic saga of Virginia House, East Wall Road.
- "Fighting and hoping" - James Connolly to Chris Caffrey , March 1916
- Lever Brothers , Castleforbes, 1935
- 1916: The destruction of Liberty Hall & Walter Carpenter
- Canon D.H. Hall, the Building Parson: Celebrating the centenary of a housing revolution in Dublin.
- EAST ROAD, EAST WALL :
- The final Voyage of the SS Adela - 27th December 1917
- “HE WAS BURIED FROM STEPHENS GREEN” - The life and death of James Corcoran – North Dock resident, trade unionist and Citizen Army volunteer.