News and Stories

  The photograph is of me and my sister in the schoolyard where our grandmother, Mamie, used to teach. I am now older than she was then, and my two granddaughters are not unlike the two [...]

  After a few months of workshops, storytelling, and sharing memories, we are now all set to launch our Stories of Stoneybatter, in partnership with An Siol, as part of the Stoneybatter [...]

A day-long workshop to encourage you to go through your old family album and see some of the photographs as starting point and illustration of stories. This workshop will touch upon current [...]

Every morning, Tommy would go to the market.  

A night watchman once persuaded a very young Joe not to run away from home…  

Did Malachy ever see President Kennedy?  

In my 20s, I danced up to the day before I was married.  The night before, I sneaked out to the dance, the National or one of them.  I couldn’t stop, I loved to dance.  

“It’s the cows I remember most, I used to be terrified.” Deirdre was born and still lives in Stoneybatter, and remembers the cows…

An intriguing visit from St Anthony to Tommy’s childhood home…

Gretta takes us for a walk through the streets of Dublin of her childhood, in the 30s and 40s.