Life after Stalin - A Dubliner's Diary

A nostalgic look back at Dublin’s old department stores in an era when a bit of grandeur and customer service counted for something, and the customer didn’t have to serve themselves. About the series Life after Stalin – A Dubliner’s Diary is a podcast series written and presented by Paul Harrison. In the series Paul […]

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Casement was a distinguished British public servant who was executed for treason following an attempted gunrunning in 1916  and became one of the principal Irish martyrs in the rebellion against British rule in Ireland. He was re-interred in Glasnevin Cemetery with full military honours after a State funeral in 1965. I was there. About the series Life after Stalin – […]

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We could hear the Artane Band practicing from our back garden. My mother used to say it was where the bold boys were sent. It’s only in retrospect I realise what those children were going through. About the series Life after Stalin – A Dubliner’s Diary is a podcast series written and presented by Paul […]

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Tomorrow’s World. When the TV remote control was a futuristic device; the moon landing in 1969 and how, in 1977, Dunsink Observatory managed to loose the moon rock which President Nixon presented to Ireland. About the series Life after Stalin – A Dubliner’s Diary is a podcast series written and presented by Paul Harrison. In […]

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The gin didn’t agree with me. Teenage drinking in the late 1960s and one particular night at the dance in the school hall. About the series Life after Stalin – A Dubliner’s Diary is a podcast series written and presented by Paul Harrison. In the series Paul reflects on how he was born in 1953, the […]

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