Did you know that there was a pillory opposite St Michan’s Church, Church Street, Dublin, in the late 18th century? But if you were put there for sedition, there was no rotten fruit-throwing, residents of the area being themselves of the rebellious sort.
This hilarious story from the Irish Builder and Engineer of April 15, 1876 detailing their support for a Mr Dunne, pilloried for that offence in 1793, provides an example of classic Dublin passive-aggressiveness in the face of distasteful authority, telling us more about Dubliners then and now than any guidebook.
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