A plaque has been unveiled at the grave of a Dublin street character after a public fundraising campaign.
Bang Bang, whose real name was Thomas Dudley, was a fan of cowboy films.
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During the 1950s and 60s he used to jump on buses shouting "bang bang" and pretending to shoot passengers with a large key.
He ended his days in a home for the blind run by the Rosminian order at Clonturk House, Drumcondra and was buried in an unmarked grave in the order's St Joseph's Cemetery.
A caretaker marked the spot where he was buried in 1981 and today a plaque was unveiled by Lord Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha.
It followed a fundraising campaign among customers of the Bang Bang cafe in Phibsboro, which was named in his memory.
Dudley was raised in an orphanage in Cabra but spent most of his life living in the Liberties area.
