Diceman (Dublin entertainer)

Diceman

Thom McGinty (1952 - 1995), known as the Diceman, was an actor, model and street artist specialising in mime.

He was born in Glasgow in 1952 and was a member of Strathclyde Theatre Group before he came to Ireland in 1976 to work as a model. The name "Diceman" came from a (now closed) shop, located first in an arcade on Grafton Street and then on South Anne Street, that sold role-playing games.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he became well-known and quite popular for performances on Grafton Street where he would sometimes work as a mime artist or would otherwise perform in costume, advertising the shop. After its closure, he was hired to advertise various other establishments, including Bewley's.

He lived for a time in the early 1980s in Spiddal, County Galway.

In 1989, he appeared in the Gate Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's Salome, directed by Steven Berkoff, which transferred to the Edinburgh Festival.^[1][2] He also performed in The Maids by Jean Genet.

In 1990, he was diagnosed with HIV and died in February 1995 after a sudden decline. He was 43 years old.^[1][2]

In 1997, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr. Brendan Lynch PC, renamed a corner in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar as 'The Diceman's Corner'.

In 2005, Alan Stanford proposed that Grafton Street have a statue of Thom McGinty.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Stanford, Alan. "Erect a statue to the man who made Grafton Street stand still", Irish Independent, 19 August 2005.
2. ^ ^{a b} Sheridan, Michael. "Remembering how he stood . . . still", Sunday Independent, 29 April 2001.

External links

• Some reminiscences of the Diceman
• A poem in memory of the Diceman by Liam O'Meara
• Erect a statue to the man who made Grafton Street stand still — Irish Independent newspaper article, 19 August 2005.
• Remembering how he stood . . . still — Sunday Independent newspaper article, 29 April 2001.
• http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/chronology/1900-2000.htm

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