North Inner City Folklore Project celebrates Heritage Week 18th – 26th August 2018

North Inner City Folklore Project celebrates Heritage Week

The North East Inner City will mark National Heritage Week running from 18th – 26th August 2018. A full programme has been compiled featuring free talks, tours, film, poetry and more throughout the week. The Programme will be officially launched by Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday 18th August at the North Inner City Folklore Project. This occasion will also mark the opening of the Folklore Project’s new visitor experience featuring Terry Fagan’s collection of memorabilia from tenement Dublin and beyond. The newly revamped premises is located at Unit 1A The Forge, Railway Street (beside Perfect Smile dental surgery). The set up of the Folklore Project at Railway Street has been supported by the North East Inner City Initiative. For details of the local Heritage Week Programme please click here https://wetransfer.com/downloads/c7b96d2022dad0ce1305ddc13e73a27320180814084001/68bea2d3da022504fb184927115baed820180814084001/bfe413

North Inner City Folklore Project celebrates Heritage Week 18th – 26th August 2018

North Inner City Folklore Project celebrates Heritage Week

The North East Inner City will mark National Heritage Week running from 18th – 26th August 2018. A full programme has been compiled featuring free talks, tours, film, poetry and more throughout the week. The Programme will be officially launched by Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday 18th August at the North Inner City Folklore Project. This occasion will also mark the opening of the Folklore Project’s new visitor experience featuring Terry Fagan’s collection of memorabilia from tenement Dublin and beyond. The newly revamped premises is located at Unit 1A The Forge, Railway Street (beside Perfect Smile dental surgery). The set up of the Folklore Project at Railway Street has been supported by the North East Inner City Initiative. For details of the local Heritage Week Programme please click here https://wetransfer.com/downloads/c7b96d2022dad0ce1305ddc13e73a27320180814084001/68bea2d3da022504fb184927115baed820180814084001/bfe413

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Local historian and archivist – Terry Fagan – seeking home for collection of local artefacts and memorabilia.

Our Terry Fagan – local historian and archivist – featured in an Irish Times article detailing his vast catalogue of historical memorabilia. Follow the link to the Irish Times site to read the full article.

Link to Irish Times Article 9th October 2016

Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project with some of the items stored in a boarded up flat in Sean McDermott Street. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project with some of the items stored in a boarded up flat in Sean McDermott Street. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien.
Behind the ugly, graffiti-festooned steel door to an abandoned flat in St Mary’s Mansions on Dublin’s Seán McDermott Street, there is an Aladdin’s Cave of artefacts and memorabilia.

The items that have been saved from tenement homes and from skips, or been donated by residents, and the stories they have told local folklorist Terry Fagan, amounts to a unique social history archive that is crying out for a proper home in the area.

“It needs to stay here,” says Fagan, a 66-year-old north inner city Dub, born in the long since demolished Corporation Buildings on the street of the same name, and now a resident of Buckingham Street.

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1916 Easter Rising Centenary – North Inner City Folklore Project

1916 Easter Rising Centenary – North Inner City Folklore Project

As part of the Centenary celebrations, HOPE participated in three local events, the hoisting of the flag at Liberty Hall on Palm Sunday (20th March 2016), then on Easter Monday (28th March) the unveiling of a plaque on Seán MacDermott Street, and the laying of a wreath at the GPO.

Local historian, Terry Fagan joins us in writing about the community’s commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising Centenary. Terry’s ‘North Inner City Folklore Project’ has been involved in these community events for over 20 years. Terry also offers historical walking tours of the North Inner City. At the centre of Terry’s tour is tenement life in the north inner city, with a particular focus on ‘The Monto’, old Dublin’s infamous red light district. However discussions with Terry are not limited to tenement life in the latter half of the 20th Century, other topics range from the ‘1913 Lockout’, the ‘1916 Rising’, the ‘War of Independence’ to the ‘Civil War’.

Liberty Hall – Hoisting of the Flag

The Liberty Hall ceremony on Palm Sunday (20th March 2016) was a reenactment of the raising of the flag. The flag was hoisted on Palm Sunday 1916 by a young girl from Gardiner Street named Molly O’Reilly. She was given the honour by James Connolly to hoist the flag over the building which he considered the first free part of Ireland. Molly O’Reilly went on to fight in City Hall and was a dispatched courier to the different garrisons around the City during the 1916 Easter Rising. She went on to take a leading role in the War of Independence as an undercover agent, gathering intelligence from Michael Collins’ top team of agents. She supplied the information that played a part in the event in Irish history known as ‘Bloody Sunday’ in 1920.

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Laying of the flag and the drums outside Liberty Hall
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Preparing to march to unveil the plaque on Lower Gardiner Street
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Members of the North Inner City Folklore Project in Period Costume

Seán MacDermott Street – Unveiling of the Plaque

On Easter Monday, 28th of March 2016, the North Inner City Folklore Project pays tribute to the 1916 leader Seán MacDermott with a plaque on the SVP building on the street named after the leader. At the rear of the building where the plaque was erected was the home of Patrick Heany, composer of the Irish national anthem – Amhrán na bhFiann (the Soldier’s Song). It was composed in his house c.1907. Patrick Heany died in abject poverty in 1911, he never lived to see his song become the battle hymn of the 1916 easter rising.

1916 Centenary Commemorations
Inner City Folklore Group
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Terry Fagan Receiving 1916 Commemorative Plaque
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Cllr. Christy Burke & HOPE Managment Committee Teresa Brady at the unveiling of the plaque

GPO – Laying of the Wreath

On Easter Monday, Constance Cowley, Daughter of Molly O’Reilly and a relation of the 1916 leader Seán MacDermott, lay a wreath at the GPO. The Proclamation was read out by a local woman named Una Shaw. A piper played a lament to the men and women of 1916.

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Constance Crowley and the family of Seán MacDermott laying the wreath at the GPO.
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Constance Crowley & the family of Seán MacDermott laying the wreath at the GPO

 

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Constance Crowley and North Inner City Folklore Project Escort