Terry Fagan
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Ghosts and goalposts: The soul of street football in Dublin’s Gloucester Diamond
- Soccer
- May 30, 2020, 07:00
There’s a photograph of a woman looking out of her window at a quiet Foley Street below. All around her are boarded up windows. The buildings up and d(...)

Ireland’s last Magdalene laundry: ‘They should knock it to the ground’
- Social Affairs
- January 16, 2018, 21:00
A few minutes’ walk across central Dublin from the GPO, shrine to Irish freedom, stands a monument to a very different side of our history – although (...)

Joyce taken up to Monto as inner-city Dublin celebrates ‘Ulysses’
- Irish News
- June 16, 2017, 19:53
There was no Chapel of Love, no Unchained Melody and certainly no Rock the Boat in Ulysses. Neither was there a wedding but it it did not stop the No(...)

Lesser spotted Bloomsday: Inner city community remembers The Monto
- Irish News
- June 16, 2016, 20:40
J&M Cleary, the old-fashioned red-fronted pub under the railway bridge on Dublin’s Amiens Street, used to be known as the Signal House. That was(...)

Rethinking Dublin’s north inner city
- Homes & Property
- September 5, 2013, 00:00
What causes an area to decline? And, more importantly for the future, what might cause it to rise again? Just Imagine, the work of final year Inter(...)

Unnatural bedfellows? Shaw returns to the Abbey
- Theatre
- August 6, 2013, 01:00
‘Don’t fancy that I am disposed to defend my country,” says Isabella Woodward, a key character in George Bernard Shaw’s first novel, Immaturity. “I ha(...)

Lockout look-in: tenement life, up close and personal
- Culture
- July 31, 2013, 01:00
In 1813, in a room on the ground floor at No 14 Henrietta Street, a maid is polishing the silver of Charles Viscount Dillon, an agent of the British g(...)