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Over the years many wonderful characters were known to frequent the Grove....most notably, the Legend that is Biker Pat ( who featured heavily in the documentary referred to later in this article )Ten Year Cindermella,The Famous Fagan Sisters,The Mad Monarch and Marcus the Flute. |
Over the years many wonderful characters were known to frequent the Grove....most notably, the Legend that is Biker Pat ( who featured heavily in the documentary referred to later in this article )Ten Year Cindermella,The Famous Fagan Sisters,The Mad Monarch and Marcus the Flute. |
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Several delectable ladies could also be seen regularly at the Grove,among them ( and in no particular order ) a Bluebell,a Star,a little Blondie,a Carlagh Witch,a Whitby Goth,a Mexican Mins a Stevie Nicks a right Eejit,a gaggle of beauties now banished to the far reaches of NCD, ( you know who you are ) and an X ( not a FourX or an X Squared,just an X).These young ones (sic ) were forever trying to attract / divert ( delete as applicable ) the attentions of such dubious characters such as The Floyd Ranger and Tonto,Compo,Clegg,Foggy and the rest of the Crusty oul fellas from Last of the Summer Wine,a Black Russian,Rolo the |
Several delectable ladies could also be seen regularly at the Grove,among them ( and in no particular order ) a Bluebell,a Star,a little Blondie,a Carlagh Witch,a Whitby Goth,a Mexican Mins a Stevie Nicks a right Eejit,a gaggle of beauties now banished to the far reaches of NCD, ( you know who you are ) and an X ( not a FourX or an X Squared,just an X).These young ones (sic ) were forever trying to attract / divert ( delete as applicable ) the attentions of such dubious characters such as The Floyd Ranger and Tonto,Compo,Clegg,Foggy and the rest of the Crusty oul fellas from Last of the Summer Wine,a Black Russian,Rolo the invisible man and Whippersnapper,a Hippy with short hair ( God between us and all harm ), a Danish Teacher in a kilt,some fella who would one day be known as Two Kaks and several High Density photographers ( you also know who you are ). |
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In 2001 Andy Colbert began running Grove tribute nights at The Isaac Butt Venue in Dublin's city centre. In late 2004, he eventually persuaded Cecil Nolan to make guest appearances, hence these tributes became reunions and relocated to The Sheiling Hotel, [[Raheny]]. These reunions ran four times a year - Easter, Summer, Hallowe'en and Christmas, until the beginning of redevelopment of the Sheiling Hotel into an apartment building in Spring 2008. |
In 2001 Andy Colbert began running Grove tribute nights at The Isaac Butt Venue in Dublin's city centre. In late 2004, he eventually persuaded Cecil Nolan to make guest appearances, hence these tributes became reunions and relocated to The Sheiling Hotel, [[Raheny]]. These reunions ran four times a year - Easter, Summer, Hallowe'en and Christmas, until the beginning of redevelopment of the Sheiling Hotel into an apartment building in Spring 2008. |
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The Grove Social Club was an Irish alternative discothèque social club started in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. It opened in 1967 on Mount Prospect Avenue in Clontarf, in Belgrove Football Club (from which the club got its name). It moved to St. Paul's College, Raheny in 1975 when the old pavilion was burnt down. The disco was known as the Northside's (of Dublin, Ireland) original alternative disco, and along with Tamangos in Portmarnock and Saints in Howth was one of the few 'dances/discos' on the northside of Dublin. Cecil Nolan was the DJ for the whole 30 years at the Grove until it closed in 1997.
Over the years many wonderful characters were known to frequent the Grove....most notably, the Legend that is Biker Pat ( who featured heavily in the documentary referred to later in this article )Ten Year Cindermella,The Famous Fagan Sisters,The Mad Monarch and Marcus the Flute.
Several delectable ladies could also be seen regularly at the Grove,among them ( and in no particular order ) a Bluebell,a Star,a little Blondie,a Carlagh Witch,a Whitby Goth,a Mexican Mins a Stevie Nicks a right Eejit,a gaggle of beauties now banished to the far reaches of NCD, ( you know who you are ) and an X ( not a FourX or an X Squared,just an X).These young ones (sic ) were forever trying to attract / divert ( delete as applicable ) the attentions of such dubious characters such as The Floyd Ranger and Tonto,Compo,Clegg,Foggy and the rest of the Crusty oul fellas from Last of the Summer Wine,a Black Russian,Rolo the invisible man and Whippersnapper,a Hippy with short hair ( God between us and all harm ), a Danish Teacher in a kilt,some fella who would one day be known as Two Kaks and several High Density photographers ( you also know who you are ).
In 2001 Andy Colbert began running Grove tribute nights at The Isaac Butt Venue in Dublin's city centre. In late 2004, he eventually persuaded Cecil Nolan to make guest appearances, hence these tributes became reunions and relocated to The Sheiling Hotel, Raheny. These reunions ran four times a year - Easter, Summer, Hallowe'en and Christmas, until the beginning of redevelopment of the Sheiling Hotel into an apartment building in Spring 2008.
A documentary about the Grove was commissioned by Raidió Teilifís Éireann and televised in 2006.