Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin: 50th Anniversary Edition

(Paperback, 4th Revised edition)

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50^th Anniversary Edition

A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan OBrien, MD of The OBrien Press and best-selling author Dnal Fallon.

The very first book published by The OBrien Press in 1974 celebrates fifty years in print.

The OBrien Press launched its first publication in November 1974. Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin, written by amonn MacThomis and published while the author was in jail, was an immediate success and has become a classic. Full of historical facts, anecdotes and Dublin wit, this book evokes the spirit, the characters and colours, the sights, sounds and even the smells of old Dublin. With sections on markets, pawn shops, street characters, the Liberties, slang and wit of Dublins newspapers, the citys history is traced right back to Brian Boru, the Huguenots,the debtors prison', and Dublin's troubled history of risings and revolutions.

Celebrating fifty years of Me Jewel & Darlin Dublin and of The OBrien Press.

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Many books have been written about various aspects of Dublin, but none has captured the atmosphere of the living city so well as Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin

MacThomis makes the city sing with his uncanny ear for the voices and sounds that give it its uniqueness. A book to treasure.

those yet to engage with the book are in for a treat, as it is a truly unique piece of writing, in the mould of James Joyce and Flann OBrien

Author Bio

amonn MacThomis (13 January 192716 August 2002) was an author, broadcaster, historian, Irish Republican, advocate of the Irish language and lecturer. He presented his own series on Dublin on RT during the 1970s and was well known for guided tours of and lectures on his beloved Dublin. He is buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery. Michael O'Brien founded The O'Brien Press in 1974. As an artist he illustrated several of our early publications, as well as books on Rathgar/Churchtown and Tallaght. DONAL FALLON is a lecturer and historian based in Dublin. Co-founder of the popular social history website Come Here To Me, his previous publications include The Pillar: The Life and After Life of the Nelson Pillar (New Island, 2014). He is currently completing a PhD on republican commemoration and memory in 1930s Ireland.