Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Streets and their Inhabitants: The Recollections of Dublin’s Tram Drivers, Lamplighters and Street Dealers
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The first half of this century was the heyday of Dublin’s vibrant and bustling traditional street life. Now in Dublin’s Street Life and Lore, through the vivid oral histories of the participants themselves, Professor Kevin Kearns chronicles this rich street life and lore for future generations.
The fascinating and often poignant verbal testimonies of Dublin’s last surviving tram drivers, lamplighters, market traders, street dealers, spielers, buskers, local characters and others of their vanishing breed, comprise a wholly original and captivating personal historical record of Dublin’s long renowned street life, told in Professor Kearns’s uniquely engaging and informative style.
- Introduction
- Dublin Street Life and Oral Urbanlore
- Historical Perspectives on Dublin Street Types
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Street Figures of Yesteryear
Lamplighters
Dockers
Postmen
Chimney Sweep
Signwriter
Pawnbroker
Fortune Teller -
Dealers, Spielers, Vendors and Collectors
Market and Street Dealers
Spieler
Newspaper Vendors
Scrap Collectors -
Transport and Vehicles Men
Jarveys
Tram Drivers
Pioneer Cabbie
Bicycle and Car Parkers
Busman -
Animal Dealers, Drovers and Fanciers
Drovers
Horse Dealers
Pig Raiser
Bird Market Men
Pigeon Fanciers -
Entertainers and Performers
Buskers
Pavement Artists
Mimes and Clowns
Bardic Street Poets
Kevin C. Kearns
Kevin C. Kearns, Ph.D., is a social historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado. He has made over 40 research trips to Ireland, a number of which were funded by the National Geographic Society. Of his ten books on Dublin, five have been bestsellers, most notably Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History which was number one on The Irish Times bestseller list for many weeks. He is the author of Dublin Voices: An Oral Folk History, Stoneybatter: Dublin’s Inner Urban Village, Ireland’s Arctic Siege: The Big Freeze of 1947 and The Bombing of Dublin’s North Strand: The Untold Story. His latest book, The Legendary “Lugs” Branigan: Ireland’s Most Famed Garda, will be published in 2014.
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