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15 November 2018: ‘The voice of WW1’, Aidan Heavey Library, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
In November 2018 Westmeath County Libraries will present a series of three seminars hosted by Ciara Murphy exploring three different texts which explore the Irish experience of the First World War. These seminars highlight the importance of both the given and the imagined image, and the dominant and silenced voices of war. They illuminate the…
Read More15 November 2018: ‘1918 Ireland: Political and social change’, Loughrea, Co. Galway
On Thursday 15 October 2018 a conference entitled ‘1918 Ireland: Political and social change’ took place in Loughrea, Co. Galway. This conference will explore a wide range of issues relating to political and social change in the west of Ireland in 1918. It has been organised by Loughrea Memorial Group in partnership with Galway County Council. The conference…
Read More15 November 2018: ‘Gallipoli, the GPO and Flanders’, Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny
On Thursday 15 November 2018 the Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny, hosted a performance of composer Michael Holohan’s musical and theatrical piece ‘Gallipoli, the GPO and Flanders’. Drawing on the personal letters and diaries of both his paternal and maternal granduncles and the diary of a British soldier, the composer Michael Holohan has created a musical…
Read More14 November 2018: ‘De Valera, 1916-1921: The Rising to the Treaty’, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
On Wednesday 14 November 2018 Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society presented a lecture entitled ‘De Valera, 1916-1921: The Rising to the Treaty’, by De Valera’s most recent biographer, David McCullagh (RTÉ). The lecture took place at 8pm in the Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar. From Century Ireland: Introducing De Valera.
Read More14-23 November 2018: Exhibition on ‘World War One: The Westmeath connection’, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
Between Wednesday 14 November and Wednesday 23 November 2018, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, Westmeath County Council presented an exhibition in Mullingar entitled ‘World War One: The Westmeath connection’. This exhibition was an initiative of the Westmeath Heritage Forum. It offered insights not only into the sheer scale of…
Read More11 November 2018: ‘The armed man: a mass for peace, Galway Cathedral, Galway
On 11 November 2018, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, a combined performance of Karl Jenkins’ The armed man and Joseph Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli (Mass in a time of war) took place in Galway Cathedral The concert was performed by the Tribal Chamber Choir, with a full…
Read MoreCommemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War, November 2018
11 November 2018 marks the centenary of the armistice that finally brought the First World War to an end. Since 2014 the war has loomed large in the commemorative centenary calendar in both Ireland and the UK, and its end is being marked by a wide range of events and initiatives. This post, which will be…
Read More12 November 2018: ‘Westmeath and the Great War, 1914-1918’, Moate, Co. Westmeath
On Monday 12 November Moate Museum and Historical Society presented a lecture by Ruth Illingworth, entitled ‘Westmeath and the Great War, 1914-1918’. The lecture took place in the Grand Hotel, Moate, at 8.15pm.
Read More11 November 2018: Memorial event to mark centenary of 1918 armistice, Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow
On Sunday November 11 2018 a special memorial event marking the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War took place in the Memorial Garden, Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow. The event focused on the hundreds of Carlow men and women who died in the conflict and who are remembered by name on the All-County Memorial in…
Read More11 November 2018: Ecumenical service of remembrance, All Saints’ Church, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
On Sunday November 11 1918, All Saints’ Church, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, held a special ecumenical service of remembrance to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. This included the traditional two minute silence at 11am to mark the moment at which the armistice that ended the war came into effect, and…
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