Tall Tales from Tall Ships
The Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society is delighted to announce that, as part of the Tall Ships Festival, it is holding a photographic exhibition and series of four talks on the history of Dublin Port. The exhibition will be hosted in the CHQ Centre at Georges Dock from the 23rd August to the 26th August while the talks will take place at the Centre or on mv Cadhla Barge, North Wall Quay nearby.
The Exhibition (covering 1940 to 1990) will be open on the 23rd, 24th and 25th August from 11am to 6pm and on 26th August from 11am to 2.30pm. Click on ‘more’ for details of the talks:
Stories from Deep Sea Dockers
Dr Don Bennett is a sociologist and long time Dublin resident. He has published on a variety of subjects, including Dublin street traders and the Concerned Parents Against Drugs movement. He has lectured at University College, Dublin, at the Jagiellonian University in Poland, and at universities in the United States.
23rd August 13.30 to 14.00 hrs on the MV Cadhla Barge
The streets where you walk
East Wall based Sarah Lundberg is a local publisher, historian and an archivist. Her talk will be a virtual tour through the streets and along the quay-sides along which the festival is taking place. Learn the history of the surrounding area, the people and places – from the creation of Dublin Port and the reclamation of land from the sea, right up to the present day – and discover the story of the dockers, sailors and railway-men who worked here, the soldiers and rebels who fought and died here, the famous characters such as Luke Kelly and Sean O’Casey who lived here and the local people who struggled to survive in the tenements, houses, flats and apartments on both sides of the river.
23rd August 14.30 to 15.30 at the CHQ
Dublin and its port 1913-1922
Padraig Yeates is a journalist and author of several books, including Lockout: Dublin 1913, A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918 and a City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919-1921 (forthcoming). He will outline the role played by Dublin Port in this revolutionary decade. Its role in the 1913 Lockout, how the First world War affected the port, how the Munitions Strike of 1920 crippled the British war effort in the Irish War of Independence, how the LNWR hotel on the North Wall played host to its most unusual, violent and flamboyant guests, the Auxiliaries, and how action by the dockers kept it open in the lead up to the Civil War
24th August 16.00 to 17.00 hrs at the CHQ
Talks from the Docklands – Characters
Paul O’Brien is an oral historian, song writer, and collector of folk memories. From the Docksides of Dublin, Belfast and Rotterdam, hear the stories Paul has gathered – tales of tragedy and love, hard work and heartbreaks. Enjoy his unique and humorous take on the people and events from the Port community, such as the Dublin Lego fire of 1970 and doomed love affair of two pet Donkeys called Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Relive the tradition of Hoolies in the Kitchen and learn a word or two of “Dock Lingo”.
25th August 12.30 to 14.00 hrs on the MV Cadhla Barge