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Radical History of UCD
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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? |
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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.