Kieran Glennon
@drnightdub.bsky.social
Researches the political/sectarian conflict in Belfast 1920-22. Author of "From Pogrom to Civil War - Tom Glennon & The Belfast IRA" and "Pogrom & Partition - Belfast's Market Area 1920-22." Blogs at www.thebelfastpogrom.com. Cooks fish, watches St Pats.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I win.
I win.
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I win.
I win.
Her nibs has been busy knitting Easter Bunnies for a charity that'll sell them next year. These are her latest creations - one ain't shaking its tailfeather (yet) but the one next to it is over-compensating.
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Her nibs has been busy knitting Easter Bunnies for a charity that'll sell them next year. These are her latest creations - one ain't shaking its tailfeather (yet) but the one next to it is over-compensating.
Post yourself from a different era. 1988, pirate radio, "Dr Nightdub's Roots Rockin' Rainbow Rhythms Revolution" in full flow. @stane.bsky.social For bonus kudos, the studio was on the top floor upstairs over McGonagles.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Post yourself from a different era. 1988, pirate radio, "Dr Nightdub's Roots Rockin' Rainbow Rhythms Revolution" in full flow. @stane.bsky.social For bonus kudos, the studio was on the top floor upstairs over McGonagles.
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Gotta love the algorithm
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Gotta love the algorithm
Merrion Square looking fine
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Merrion Square looking fine
From the other place:
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
From the other place:
Watching highlights of Notts Forest v Sunderland and it reminds me of my very first Subbuteo set
September 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Watching highlights of Notts Forest v Sunderland and it reminds me of my very first Subbuteo set
I wonder which came first, the Dublin one or this one on South Main St in Cork?
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I wonder which came first, the Dublin one or this one on South Main St in Cork?
No idea if there's a link, but on a recent tour, the guide explained that tombs like this were to deter graverobbers.
Bully's Acre graveyard, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Bully's Acre graveyard, Kilmainham, Dublin.
September 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
No idea if there's a link, but on a recent tour, the guide explained that tombs like this were to deter graverobbers.
Bully's Acre graveyard, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Bully's Acre graveyard, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Couldn't have put it better myself
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Couldn't have put it better myself
Outstanding typo in the Irish Times this morning:
September 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Outstanding typo in the Irish Times this morning:
#2 A Sherwood Forester, who died of wounds sustained in the Easter Rising on the same day that John McBride was executed in Kilmainham Gaol across the road.
#3 That they may face the rising sun.
#3 That they may face the rising sun.
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#2 A Sherwood Forester, who died of wounds sustained in the Easter Rising on the same day that John McBride was executed in Kilmainham Gaol across the road.
#3 That they may face the rising sun.
#3 That they may face the rising sun.
Finally, after 3 or 4 years of it always being booked out, got to go on the tour of Bully's Acre graveyards in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham as part of Heritage Week.
#1 William Proby, who fought with King Billy at the Boyne. Apparently, a site of pilgrimage for Orangemen.
#1 William Proby, who fought with King Billy at the Boyne. Apparently, a site of pilgrimage for Orangemen.
August 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Finally, after 3 or 4 years of it always being booked out, got to go on the tour of Bully's Acre graveyards in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham as part of Heritage Week.
#1 William Proby, who fought with King Billy at the Boyne. Apparently, a site of pilgrimage for Orangemen.
#1 William Proby, who fought with King Billy at the Boyne. Apparently, a site of pilgrimage for Orangemen.
Exhibits A & B. No amount of judicious cropping could get rid of the very non-1920s clutter.
August 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Exhibits A & B. No amount of judicious cropping could get rid of the very non-1920s clutter.
Went on a lovely guided tour of "The Monastic Gardens of Brú Chronáin" (Clondalkin round tower) earler today as part of Heritage Week. Still can't get over the fact that someone is successfully growing grapes in Clondalkin - not enough for a bottle of wine, but it's a start!
August 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Went on a lovely guided tour of "The Monastic Gardens of Brú Chronáin" (Clondalkin round tower) earler today as part of Heritage Week. Still can't get over the fact that someone is successfully growing grapes in Clondalkin - not enough for a bottle of wine, but it's a start!
Completely coincidentally, current attire:
August 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Completely coincidentally, current attire:
Opel Kadett, can't remember the year, but it was like this colour, only more sickly lime-green. Stolen from the SCR, used in a ram-raid, recovered at the scene; a Garda in Balbriggan had to show me how to hotwire it to drive it home.
August 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Opel Kadett, can't remember the year, but it was like this colour, only more sickly lime-green. Stolen from the SCR, used in a ram-raid, recovered at the scene; a Garda in Balbriggan had to show me how to hotwire it to drive it home.
St Pats with an improbable half-time score away to Besiktas in Istanbul
August 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
St Pats with an improbable half-time score away to Besiktas in Istanbul
Go stand outside this shop and try not to think of Ultravox
August 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Go stand outside this shop and try not to think of Ultravox
Third day on holiday in Cork and I'm struck by the adulation for Terence MacSwiney. Even Michael Collins only gets two statues here, but MacSwiney has a statue and I've lost count of how many works of street art.
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Third day on holiday in Cork and I'm struck by the adulation for Terence MacSwiney. Even Michael Collins only gets two statues here, but MacSwiney has a statue and I've lost count of how many works of street art.
In Scotland, the official sponsor for football referees is Specsavers.
This guy could make a fortune if he cut a deal with Vicks Inhaler.
This guy could make a fortune if he cut a deal with Vicks Inhaler.
July 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In Scotland, the official sponsor for football referees is Specsavers.
This guy could make a fortune if he cut a deal with Vicks Inhaler.
This guy could make a fortune if he cut a deal with Vicks Inhaler.
"AI is slop" - my tuppenceworth.
Last September, I put up a blog post with a tongue-in-cheek title (Exhibit A).
Since then, AI has spotted it and, with its highly-sophisticated reading comprehension and learning abilities, just gone with the fairies (Exhibit B).
Last September, I put up a blog post with a tongue-in-cheek title (Exhibit A).
Since then, AI has spotted it and, with its highly-sophisticated reading comprehension and learning abilities, just gone with the fairies (Exhibit B).
June 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"AI is slop" - my tuppenceworth.
Last September, I put up a blog post with a tongue-in-cheek title (Exhibit A).
Since then, AI has spotted it and, with its highly-sophisticated reading comprehension and learning abilities, just gone with the fairies (Exhibit B).
Last September, I put up a blog post with a tongue-in-cheek title (Exhibit A).
Since then, AI has spotted it and, with its highly-sophisticated reading comprehension and learning abilities, just gone with the fairies (Exhibit B).
We all bear great responsibility for what we write...
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We all bear great responsibility for what we write...
Thanks. I liked the contrast between that building and the other "modern" shite. Had occasion recently to write about a wee girl who was shot in that same street in 1921.
June 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thanks. I liked the contrast between that building and the other "modern" shite. Had occasion recently to write about a wee girl who was shot in that same street in 1921.