Deep-sea Docker Nicknames
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Dock work was treated as casual labour in Dublin Port right up to the 1970s. As such, men would gather at the docks each day in the hope that they would be called to work by the foreman in a daily address known as 'The Read'. Foremen from different companies came to use nicknames for individual dockers when picking them to work on the ships. Like the Button system (see related sources below for further information), the nicknames were often passed from father to son. Below is a list of some of the many nicknames that were given to deep-sea dockers in Dublin Port, along with an short video about them, featuring members of the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society.
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Rommel Behan |
Batch Green |
Bedah Behan |
Sadler Cloake |
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Rolo Fullam |
Genna King |
Chick Kelly |
Glimmer Byrne |
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Hogger |
Buffer Gannon |
Bo Callaghan |
Uncle Mullen |
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Crongie Dunne |
Gannet Reilly |
Gorgeous George Coghlan |
Daddy Byrne |
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German Lawless |
Valley Fulham |
Count the Skulls Callaghan |
Big Nose Kelly |
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Yank Byrne |
Skinner Kelly |
Great Lover Mooney |
Chester Kelly |
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Me-did Doyle |
Heney Mullen |
Cha Boy Coghlan |
Jigger Buckley |
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Nutsy O’Toole |
Coxey Corbally |
Meet Your New Mammy |
Bushler Walsh |
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Spike McDonald |
Nanier Byrne |
Silent Pencil Fulham |
Chadier Caulfield |
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Gidda Murphy |
Conser Murray |
Follow the Corpse Mitten |
Mittener Dent |
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Hawkie Hawkins |
Muddler Doyle |
Long Balls Murphy |
Rambler Dent |
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Fatser Currie |
Baldo McAuley |
Two Thumbs Murphy |
Leftie Egan |
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Brother Lawless |
Skipper Dunne |
Butch Dardis Nucker Jones |
Demon Dent |
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Scumer Mulhall |
Bimbo Keating |
Lee Wee McDonald |
Bosun Carrick |
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Jockser Gibbs |
Lemon Fitzsimons |
Rusler Egan-Kearns |
Tiddler Tierney |
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Biners Quinn |
Saw Cox |
Yoy Yoy O’Driscoll |
Boy Murphy |
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Gimp Murphy |
Wire Robinson |
Big Apple Doyle |
Da Gaines |
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These’ll Brown |
Doggie Smith |
Blue Boy Stanton |
Soldier Driscoll |
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Mausey Boylan |
Greek Doyle |
Man from Larame Byrne |
Nudger Keating |
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Nipper Breslin |
Miner Kennedy |
Eat the Baby Carass |
Buller McDonald |
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Earrings Bradley |
Fingers Grimes |
Rubber Legs Gaffney |
Saintey Byrne |
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Bronco Dennis |
Granny Farrell |
Foot and a Half Curley |
Gipen-Na Lynch |
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Miley Walsh |
Dasty Brown |
Dig in the Goo Mooney |
Clinkey Byrne |
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Trigger Bisset |
Briney Lawless |
Nuggy Bar Connolly |
Gitchey Welch |
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Whacker Nugent |
Masher Hutch |
Canadian Joe Reilly |
Figio Dillon |
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Mettler Kelly |
Canary Cullen |
Sandy Man Hughes |
Torry Duffy |
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Gitters Kinsella |
St. Francis Byrne |
Little Big Nose Kelly |
Bando Macken |
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Fuucker Finn |
Mixer Breen |
Salt Box O’Connor |
Slim Brown |
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Tucker Reilly |
Shouders Byrne |
Little Apple Doyle |
Lats Dempsey |
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Lacks Murphy |
Slasher Barry |
Cruger Cunningham |
Bogey Dixon |
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Guard Murphy |
Bull Weldon |
Blake Montgomery |
Mika Donnelly |
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Ninety Byrne |
Boxer Elliot |
Hardloaf Cummins |
Gabby Hayes |
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Muckler Murphy |
Boo Byrne |
Duck Egg Kirwan |
Atlas Hughes |
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Oxo Byrne |
Beefer Duffy |
Blue Nose Byrne |
Pop Barry |
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Bale Doyle |
Crab Carberry |
Knock Out Kelty |
Marmo Coyle |
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Bagey Grey |
Fibbey Carberry |
Toothins Redmond |
Jigger Buckley |
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Swinger Bissett |
Bleeder Walsh |
Straney Fitzsimons |
Chappy Curley |
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Kerrier Caulfield |
Snips MacDonald |
Warewolf Freeman |
Toner Downey |
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Battler McCann |
Lagger Redmond |
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