WE ARE AT WAR!!!!!!! 04:19 Feb 13 0 comments Chelsea and the real war 02:58 Mar 13 0 comments Half of All Children (in US?) Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT 19:54 Dec 31 2 comments 9/11 After 13 years Paul Craig Roberts 22:42 Sep 15 3 comments The Latin pattern 15:51 Oct 06 0 comments more >>Blog Feeds
The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Cost of Switching Off U.K. Wind Farms on Windy Days Hits ?Absurd? ?1 Billion Mon Dec 02, 2024 20:00 | Will Jones
David Starkey is Right That Blair Destroyed the British Constitution But Wrong About This Mon Dec 02, 2024 18:03 | James Alexander
Jaguar?s ?Barbie Pink? Electric Car Leaked Online Mon Dec 02, 2024 15:45 | Will Jones
Trump Asks if Biden Will Now Pardon the ?January 6th Hostages? After He Pardons Son Hunter Mon Dec 02, 2024 13:41 | Will Jones
Net Zero is Now Costing Serious Jobs and Threatening Entire Regional Economies Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:24 | Will Jones |
Radical History of UCD
dublin |
education |
other press
Tuesday April 28, 2009 14:24 by Jay matchgrams at gmail dot com
A new blog dedicated to collating the radical and social history of UCD. Did you know that Charles Haughey, as a UCD student helped to instigate a riot by burning a Union Jack during Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) celebrations in 1945 in Dublin’s City Centre? |
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (5 of 5)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5In the mid-1990's a young female student drunkenly wandered through a building site on campus, fell and was impaled to death on steel reinforcement rods.
On the bridge at the entrance to UCD there is a memorial plaque to a girl named Julia "Blithe Spirit" who fell to her death aged 19 in 1990.
RTE radio show: What if Irish Students in the 1960's had been more radical.
Guests: Margaret McCurtain and Jim Lockhart
Programme 15: 10th December 2006
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/whatif/1105145.html
from previous IMC-IE feature: 40 years ago this month in Paris….Mai 68.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87672
Related RTE tv series : http://www.rte.ie/tv/1968/
UCD Student, do you have a year or any more info for the "mid 1990s.." story?
Dunk, thanks for the links.
\does anyone know any more about the student who fell to her death on October 12th 1990?
This attached link has a little more information, though nothing concrete. You have to scroll way down to find it.
I notice that the flowers are changed around her birthday - 28/12. She would have been 39 this week, 20 years since she died. She is now dead for longer than she lived, and somebody's heart is still breaking. From all such tragedy, deliver us.