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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Today in 1742 Handel’s Messiah, performed by George Frideric, had its world premiere on Fishamble Street in Dublin. We were a city clawing its way out of disaster. The venue was Neal’s Musick Hall, newly opened in October 1741.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At Shannon Airport a protester climbed onto the wing of a US Air Force C-130 Hercules and damaged the fuselage using a hatchet.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Tucked into the glass and steel jungle of Manhattan’s Battery Park City, just a stone’s throw from Wall Street, there’s a quiet acre of Ireland where the memory of famine stalks our soil still.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is one of the darkest dives into the underbelly of Dublin. The sickening murder of a little boy by a Trinity student in 1841 that opened a disturbing can of worms that went all the way to the government in Dublin Castle.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Michael Healy-Rae's property firm Roughty Properties, trading as Rosemont House in Tralee, has received €1.33m in State payments for housing Ukrainian refugees since 2022. The Kerry TD and Minister of State collected €113,480 of that in 2025 alone,with €1.22m flowing in during the preceding 2 years.

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Kynos @kynosireland.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Who would Jesus bomb? Arch-bishop's comments seem somewhat loaded. Can't recall where Christ recommended war even 'as a last resort'. He Said 'Bring Swords' only to ensure His OWN Sacrifice, in cancellation of all other blood-sacrifices, would be assured. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US military archbishop says Iran conflict does not meet ‘just war’ standard

Catholic Timothy Broglio says ‘hard to cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord’

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Arbour Hill Cemetery and Prison began as an outpost of empire and ended as a sanctuary of rebellion. The prison, designed by Sir Joshua Jebb and Frederick Clarendon, opened in 1848 as a military gaol, built to discipline the soldiers of the nearby Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

There's a silent limestone sentinel standing guard in Phibsborough. Officially titled The Irish Volunteer Monument, this 16-foot soldier was unveiled on the 19th of February 1939, less than six months before Europe went to war.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There's something interesting underneath the Mater Hospital. A hidden metro station, known as a station box, lies dormant beneath the forecourt of the Mater Adult Hospital, close to the Whitty Building, the A&E and outpatient services site.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

There’s an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busáras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated 240 people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin, first cited by Ptolemy in 140 AD.

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Kynos @kynosireland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Apollo, Cerberus, Stryx, Goldstein ICAV (Golden Calf - geddit?), Blackrock, Blackstone, Black Diamond (new owners of Epstein's island), and many more, all named after baetyls and false and bloody gods. Curious that...

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In the 18th century, a "freak of nature" from Dublin called Thomas Eclin became the toast of cultured London society for all the wrong reasons...he ate live dogs and cats! In fact, he was insatiably addicted to eating mountains of raw meat.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We once had a sexy one-eyed Viking king called Sitric Cáech (Sigtryggr Cáech in the old tongue) His nickname, "Cáech," meant "the Squinty". He came from the feared Uí Ímair dynasty. Sitric was a grandson of Ímar, possibly the very Ivar the Boneless of the Norse saga fame.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A Catholic priest used a vast underground network to save thousands of Jews, Allied prisoners, and anti-fascists from Nazi persecution during World War II. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898–1963) was an Irish Catholic priest and Vatican diplomat born in Kiskeam, Cork, and raised in Kerry.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ireland was home to dinosaurs! The remains of Megalosaurus and Scelidosaurus have been found here (so far). Our island currently has a weird gap in the discoveries we should be finding from the Mesozoic era, as much of our bedrock eroded away or was swamped beneath shallow seas.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Its illegal in France for supermarkets to throw away edible food. They have to donate unsold goods to charities. Why cant we have that here when our disasterous government means a "wealthy" country like Ireland still has roughly 9% of the population affected by food poverty?

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Did you know the terrorists in Die Hard were Irish! At least in Germany they were. In the late-1980s German dub, John McClane wasn’t facing West German radicals, he was tangling with ex-members of the IRA. Hans Gruber became Jack Gruber.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Did you know the Irish fought in two of the greatest battles of the Hundred Years’ War. The Battle of Agincourt and the Battle of Castillon. When Henry V sailed for France in 1415, he was the king of English and Ireland, though his power was tenous beyond the Pale. He brought Irish warriors with him

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day! Did you know thousands of Irish women were forced to undergo an agonising 16th-century maternity surgical procedure into the 1980s even though most of Western civilisation had abandoned the barbaric practice?

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Did you know theres a millenial young lady from Derry who is on the route to sainthood? Clare Crockett was born in 1982, in the Brandywell district of Free Derry amid the Troubles which tore the lives of innocent people of both traditions apart.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

16 year old Orson Welles embarked on an artistic adventure through Ireland following his Da's death in 1931. After a donkey riding painting excursion through the Aran Islands, he eventually found himself in Dublin, down to the last of his squandered inheritance.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Christie Moore was born on the 7th of May 1945 in Newbridge, County Kildare. His mother, Nancy, sang traditional ballads. When he left school he took a job in a bank. A future musical rebel behind a counter counting other people’s money might sound funny and it wouldnt last long.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

On this day in 1832, an 11 year old boy called Michael Carey became the first person to be buried in Glasnevin "Prospect" Cemetery. He was one of the countless victims of Tuberculosis, then known as Consumption.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Christ Church Cathedral features many mystical relics, but one of its most unlikely treasures are the charismatic mummified remains of a cat and rat. The duo, frozen in a perpetual pursuit, like some eternal Tom and Jerry, were discovered in the pipes of a giant church organ during the 1850s

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Cillíní were secret graveyards for babies denied a dignified burial by the Catholic church. Scattered across Ireland’s landscape, in overgrown fields, along lonely coasts, by abandoned ruins and near megalithic cairns are the cillíní.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This is the last cigarette 18 year old student Kevin Barry smoked before being hanged at Mountjoy Gaol in 1920. Dublin-born Barry was an IRA volunteer who attended Belvedere College and UCD to study medicine.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

On this day in 1981, 841 young people went out for a Valentine's Day dance in The Stardust nightclub in Artane. That night, 48 sons and daughters of Dublin never came home, tragically dying in a nightmarish and preventable fire.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Sunlight Chambers on the corner of Parliament Street and Essex Quay is an overlooked masterpiece. It wouldn't be out of place in Renaissance Rome. But the beautiful artwork is 20th century and actually represents the history of hygiene! It was the Irish HQ of Lever Brothers, which made Sunlight soap

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There's a 1,600 year old hidden holy well in a very unexpected place! There was even a cryptic clue to its location on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said, "Sráid Thobar Phádraig" or Patrick’s Well Road.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Moses once walked the beaches of Dublin. In the 1970`s and 80`s. A distinguished senior citizen roamed from Merrion Road down to Sandymount Strand and onward towards Blackrock.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

An escaped lion roamed the streets of Fairview on a quiet Sunday afternoon in 1951! Back then, the Fairview Grand Cinema backed onto a small yard belonging to Bill Stephens, an Irish circus lion trainer whose animals were hired out to visiting shows and travelling acts.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

On this day in 1919 Eamon De Valera, assisted by Michael Collins, made a daring escape from Lincoln Prison in Lincolnshire England. Like some bizarre cartoonish cliché, the mission was accomplished using a copied key smuggled in a cake!

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The "Dublin Bay" prawns are more like mini lobsters with a hard pink shell, which they shed as they grow, and they've prominent claws, walk on the balls of their feet and wear Canada Goose jackets.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Burning of the British Embassy in 1972 was a direct and furious response to the Bloody Sunday massacre that had taken place just three days earlier in Derry. On the 30th of January 1972, soldiers of the British Army’s 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The Irish "Vanishing Triangle" is the large hypothetical area, roughly bounded by Dublin, Kilkenny, and Dundalk, where several innocent women went missing presumed murdered, mostly in the 1990s. Its become synonymous with victims like Annie McCarrick, JoJo Dullard, Fiona Pender and Ciara Breen.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The 1st of February, known as the Pagan festival of Imbolc and the Feast of St. Brigid, marks the beginning of Springtime. Imbolc is an ancient pre-Christian agricultural fire festival that was modified and assimilated into the Catholic church as a way to erase the pagan religion.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Some giant cathedrals have no soul despite the grandeur. Some tiny grottos have a sacred spirit in them, which makes you feel a divine presence. This Paddy’s Day, let's visit the tiny Oratory of the Sacred Heart.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On this day in 1984 a terrified, freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position, in agony, at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard, Co. Longford.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There is a 1,600 year old hidden holy well in an unexpected place. You likely passed it a thousand times. There was even a cryptic clue to its location on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said, "Sráid Thobar Phádraig" (Patrick’s Well Road).

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

On this day in 1972, British soldiers shot 30 unarmed civilians at a peaceful protest in the Bogside area of Derry. 14 were murdered, and dozens more were injured in what became known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre.

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @buchanandtm.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Grab your Old Spice and Brylcreem and get ready to dance around your handbag on the sticky floors. We are off to visit some Dublin nightclubs of the 1970s to the 1990s. In the 70s, nightlife operated under the conceit that booze could not be served late without a substantial meal.

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