James Plunkett author of Strumpet City, one of the best books on Dublin was born on 21 May 1920 in the Hibernian metropolis. Strumpet City details the lives of common Dublin folk and their hero, James Larkin, and is a must-read for anybody that wants to understand something of the shockingly difficult nature of urban life in pre-1916 Dublin
May 21, 2022
OTD: James Plunkett (1920 - 2003)
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There are now millions of podcasts scattered around the internet. To be brutally honest, most are not worth listening to. That is not the case with Transatlantic, which features two former guests we happened to have hosted twice on Irish Stew.
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