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50th Anniversary Edition  A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon. The very first book published by The O’Brien Press in 1974 celebrates fifty years in print. The O’Brien Press launched its first publication in November 1974. Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin, written by Éamonn MacThomáis and published while the author was in jail, was an immediate success and has become a classic. Full of historical facts, anecdotes and Dublin wit, this book evokes the spirit, the characters and colours, the sights, sounds and even the smells of old Dublin. With sections on markets, pawn shops, street characters, the Liberties, slang and wit of Dublin’s newspapers, the city’s history is traced right back to Brian Boru, the Huguenots, ‘the debtors’ prison', and Dublin's troubled history of risings and revolutions. Celebrating fifty years of Me Jewel & Darlin’ Dublin – and of The O’Brien Press.

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Many books have been written about various aspects of Dublin, but none has captured the atmosphere of the living city so well as Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin * The Irish Press * MacThomáis makes the city sing with his uncanny ear for the voices and sounds that give it its uniqueness. A book to treasure. * Sunday Independent *

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Éamonn MacThomáis (13 January 1927–16 August 2002) was an author, broadcaster, historian, Irish Republican, advocate of the Irish language and lecturer. He presented his own series on Dublin on RTÉ during the 1970s and was well known for guided tours of and lectures on his beloved Dublin. He is buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery.

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