Memorial to the dubliners

Point b- why must all memorials be physical? isn’t the music enough?
Point a- they didn’t all die.

Anyway, there is already a memorial to The Dubliners- it’s called O’Donoghue’s.

If that’s not enough for you, grow a beard.

I cannot get a beard!!!! a mustache at best
how can you call jets of water and music physical?

I think there is already a stone tablet to commemorate Luke Kelly on the green in Larkhill…..a wee bit off the beaten track perhaps but memory just the same !!

Surely some kind of movement activated voice messages around town would be the most compelling tribute to his most endearing attribute, especially now the Dubbeln vernacular and accent are in terminal decline, imagine crossing the threshold of O’Donoghues and ‘oul Ronnie regaling you with a ‘ah jayz dere ya are again in for another feed o’gargle’ or walking down Foley street and himself welcoming you the the Monto but -“don’t bring dem chisselers down here, the gougers are ten a penny round the kips”…

Anything statue like I would love to see in his childhood neighbourhood of Monkstown Farm- my ma remembers him as a young tearaway and said he always had that voice:p

No more figurative statues! Have you seen the silly looking soldier sitting inside the new war memorial pyramid: the Dubliner’s deserve better. For Ronnie Drew, an endowed prize or bursary to support music would be a nice gesture but most of all the music is a better memorial than any statue.

@Seanoh wrote:

@tommyt wrote:

especially now the Dubbeln vernacular and accent are in terminal decline,

If only.

story?, crusiin’ for a virtual bruisin’ there or wot bud???;)

Yeah, accents you know like, are sooo boring like, that toetally obsurd way of speaking, those people must never have gone to school like, they must be so like inarticulate and stuff because they sound so stupid like.

maybe call the Monkstown Ring Road after him. It may make locals despise it slightly less!

@alonso wrote:

maybe call the Monkstown Ring Road after him. It may make locals despise it slightly less!

D’ya think? I always thought Monkstown and environs belonged to The Wolfe Tones? They certainly had the Noggin Inn sewn up in the mid-’90s.

Really? I thoght that was more Aslan, they were huge in the Noggin, nothing to do with the variety of products one could purchase in the nearby residences at all. I think Bob Geldof is from Monkstown too, and Sinead O’Connor from Dun Laoghaire? SO we’ve a wealth of famous people with characters of varying desirability to choose from.

I love the ol quote from Ronnie along the lines of him not being a real dubliner “just a blow in from Dun laoghaire”… Back in the days when “town” was George;s Street and the City Centre was “Dublin”….

back on topic – when the time comes there will undoubtedly, and rightly, be a major piece of work to commemorate Ronnie’s contribution to Ireland in Dublin City Centre. Perhaps Merion Row is most apt and if they could take the damn cars out of it to widen the footpaths while they’re at it, all the better. Although the idea of random Ronnieisms being piped into the O’Donoghues threshold is strangely intriguing 🙂

Think Bob Geldof is from Booterstown

@Rory W wrote:

Think Bob Geldof is from Booterstown

He went to Blackrock College but I had him down as being from Dun Laoghaire. Maybe that is linked to memories of those dens of iniquity, the Bamboo, Murrays, etc. ??:D
Before my time his grandfather had a very smart restaurant in Dublin, the “Maison Belge” which I was once told was a “place” like Jammets and the Dolphin.
Sinead O’C is from Glenageary.
K.

@tommyt wrote:

@Seanoh wrote:

story?, crusiin’ for a virtual bruisin’ there or wot bud???;)

Yeah, accents you know like, are sooo boring like, that toetally obsurd way of speaking, those people must never have gone to school like, they must be so like inarticulate and stuff because they sound so stupid like.

No, accents are not boring. Yes, those people sound as if they have never gone to school and yes they are inarticulate and do sound stupid. That Dort speak justs sounds affected.

seanoh get your irony radar fixed (for jaysus sake!)

Seanoh, get a sense of humour.

Barney McKenna is another great Dub accent. They’re dissapearing.

Its no joke, the Galway City accent, the accent of my school days, has suffered a terrible decline in the last 20 years, the country accents survive but it is rare you hear the city accent now.

What a great band….all characters! O’ Donoghues is a great pub! Ye can’t beat a toasted sandwich with lashings of mustard and washed doen with a few pints of Guinness!