Rare Old Dubline: Heros, Hawkers & Hoors

This entertaining book contains fascinating and quirky sketches of the capital city, past and present, like pirates executed in St Stephen's Green and Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar. Rogues and charlatans, heroes and harlots a-plenty stride through the pages of this book, bringing colourful historical Dublin to life. Pirates executed in St Stephen’s Green; Mother Bungy’s ‘sink of sin’ in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking Thingmote in College Green, where human sacrifices took place; the South Dublin Union, feared by the capital’s poorer citizens; hidden holy wells on the city streets: these are just some of the aspects of Dublin’s past uncovered by Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book. Famous sons and daughters of the city also make an appearance: Peg Woffington, the beautiful actress who rose from the slums to enjoy stardom at Covent Garden; Jack Langan, the bare-knuckle boxer of Ballybough; Sir Charles Cameron, the public health specialist who devised a bounty scheme for captured houseflies in 1911; and the Dolocher, the savage eighteenth-century beast in the form of a pig who turned out to be a man. Rogues and charlatans, heroesand harlots a-plenty stride through the pages of this book, bringing colourful historical Dublin to life. Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book. Famous sons and daughters of the city also make an appearance: John Pius Boland of the famous milling family, who won two Olympic medals for tennis in 1896 playing in street clothes and leather shoes; Jack Langan, the bare-knuckle boxer of Ballybough; Sir William Cameron, the public health specialist who devised a bounty scheme for captured houseflies in 1913; and the Dolocher, the savage eighteenth-century beast in the form of a pig who turned out to be a man.