2013 events
19 December 2013: Taoiseach and Prime Minister visit CWGC memorials in Belgium
On 19 December 2013 Taoiseach Enda Kenny and British Prime Minister David Cameron jointly visited a number of First World War graves and memorials in Flanders, Belgium this morning. Both leaders paid their respects to those soldiers killed in the First World War at a number of cemeteries and memorials administered by the Commonwealth War…
Read More11 December 2013: Glasnevin exhibition on Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army
On 11 December 2013 the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD, launched a new exhibition at Glasnevin Cemetary Museum to mark to foundation of both the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army. Speaking at the event, Shane Mac Thomáis, resident historian at the Glasnevin Trust, noted that the last time…
Read More4 December 2013: Irish Embassy to Belgium launches First World War Centenary programme
On 4 December 2013 the Ambassador of Ireland to the Kingdom of Belgium, H.E. Mr. Eamonn Mac Aodha, hosted a reception to launch the embassy’s First World War Centenary programme. Irish Actor Gavin Drea (Love/Hate) gave a performance inspired by letters sent home from Irish solders based in Belgium during the First World War. This…
Read More4 December 2013: NYU James Connolly exhibition on display in Trinity College Dublin
The Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin is hosting an exhibition entitled ‘Labor & Dignity – James Connolly in America. The exhibition was conceived by New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House, and was funded by the Government of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The exhibition explores the time that Connolly spent…
Read More27 November 2013: Launch of document study pack: ‘A decade of change: Donegal and Ireland, 1912-1923’
On 27 November 2013 Donegal County Archives Service (Donegal County Council) launched A decade of change, Donegal and Ireland 1912 – 1923 Document Study Pack in The Old Courthouse, Lifford. Dr Arlene Crampsie was commissioned by Donegal County Council’s Archives Service to research and write this education pack as part of the county’s series of…
Read More25 November 2013: ’16 Lives’ launch
On Wednesday 25 November 2013 Wynn’s Hotel, on Abbey St, Dublin 1, hosted the launch of the latest volume in the O’Brien Press ’16 Lives’ series: Roger Casement, by Angus Mitchell. Both the venue and date were chosen to mark Casement’s involvement in the foundation of the Irish Volunteers. The series was launched in 2012,…
Read More25 November 2013: Centenary exhibition on the founding of the Irish Volunteers
25 November 2013 was the centenary of the foundation of the Irish Volunteers, which took place in the complex of buildings at the Rotunda, Dublin. To celebrate this centenary, an exhibition by the Military Archives on the Irish Volunteers was held in the Pillar Rooms of the Rotunda Hospital on 25–29 November 2013. In…
Read More24 November 2013: Irish Volunteers commemoration, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
On 24 November an official commemoration took place in the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1, to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. The ceremony, which was open to the public, was attended by President Michael D. Higgins; An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D.; Alan Shatter…
Read More16 November 2013: National Museum seminar on Irish Citizen Army
On 16 November 2013 the National Museum of Ireland hosted a centenary seminar on the foundation of the Irish Citizen Army, entitled ‘The Irish Citizen Army: Green Bolsheviks or Red Fenians?’. The day-long seminar was addressed by a number of historians — Brian Hanley, Ann Matthews, Rachel Phelan, Lar Joye and Liz Gillis — who…
Read More14 November 2013: National Museum of Ireland: Curators’ talk: ‘The Irish soldier in World War One’
The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, hosted a lecture by curator Lar Joye at 1pm on Thursday 14 November on the subject of ‘The Irish soldier in World War One’. From BBC History: Keith Jeffery on Ireland and the First World War.
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