The Irish For: What was Ireland like the weekend before the 1916 Rising?
Darach Ó Séaghdha looks at what was in the news and in the ether in Irish society at the time of The Rising.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha looks at what was in the news and in the ether in Irish society at the time of The Rising.
The horse that delivered your food, milk or coal. The lions and tigers in the circuses and zoos. The pigeons in their doocots. The cat at the…
Stan Laurel performed at Dundee Palace in the summer of 1908 and the crowd couldn't have known they were in the presence of greatness.
IT WAS quite a story, back in 1955, when Billy Thomson and his pals built a ‘Davy Crockett hut’ in the back courts on Scotia Street in Cowcaddens. The young lads had no idea they were about to be embroiled in a drama that made the newspapers in Glasgow and beyond…. Billy got in touch to tell us the story after reading a recent Times Past feature on eccentric city cinema boss and businessman Albert Pickard. AE Pickard ran, among other things, the Britannia Panopticon, introducing a variety of unusual acts and performers to the city. Much to the delight of audiences, Pickard wou...