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    Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Streets and their Inhabitants: The Recollections of Dublin’s Tram Drivers, Lamplighters and Street Dealers
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    Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Streets and their Inhabitants: The Recollections of Dublin’s Tram Drivers, Lamplighters and Street Dealers
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    Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Streets and their Inhabitants: The Recollections of Dublin’s Tram Drivers, Lamplighters and Street Dealers

    By Kevin C. Kearns

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    The first half of this century was the heyday of Dublin’s vibrant and bustling traditional street life. Now in Dublin’s Street Life and Lore, through the vivid oral histories of the participants themselves, Professor Kevin Kearns chronicles this rich street life and lore for future generations.

    The fascinating and often poignant verbal testimonies of Dublin’s last surviving tram drivers, lamplighters, market traders, street dealers, spielers, buskers, local characters and others of their vanishing breed, comprise a wholly original and captivating personal historical record of Dublin’s long renowned street life, told in Professor Kearns’s uniquely engaging and informative style.

    Dublin Street Life and Lore: Table of Contents
      Introduction

    1. Dublin Street Life and Oral Urbanlore

    2. Historical Perspectives on Dublin Street Types

    3. Street Figures of Yesteryear
      Lamplighters
      Dockers
      Postmen
      Chimney Sweep
      Signwriter
      Pawnbroker
      Fortune Teller

    4. Dealers, Spielers, Vendors and Collectors
      Market and Street Dealers
      Spieler
      Newspaper Vendors
      Scrap Collectors

    5. Transport and Vehicles Men
      Jarveys
      Tram Drivers
      Pioneer Cabbie
      Bicycle and Car Parkers
      Busman

    6. Animal Dealers, Drovers and Fanciers
      Drovers
      Horse Dealers
      Pig Raiser
      Bird Market Men
      Pigeon Fanciers

    7. Entertainers and Performers
      Buskers
      Pavement Artists
      Mimes and Clowns
      Bardic Street Poets
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 1, 1997
    ISBN9780717165681
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    Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Streets and their Inhabitants: The Recollections of Dublin’s Tram Drivers, Lamplighters and Street Dealers
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    Kevin C. Kearns

    Kevin C, Kearns, PhD, is a social historian, Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado and the author of fifteen books, including several bestsellers – most notably Dublin Tenement Life and Ireland’s Arctic Siege. In 2021 he was awarded the Lord Mayor’s Scroll from Dublin City Council, in recognition of his ‘dedication to preserving Dublin’s social history’. Kearns now lives in New England, on the coast of Maine.

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