2021 Events
The Revolutionary Pat Keating of Comeragh
New Booklet on IRA Leader Pat Keating Launches on Friday 30th July March 2021 marked the 100-year anniversary of the death of local IRA leader Pat Keating during the War of Independence. Fatally wounded in the Burgery Ambush, Keating’s death at only 25 years of age was a blow to the local IRA movementhe had…
Read MoreCustom House Talks: Dan Head
Dan Head – the boy in the picture. On May 25th, 1921, the last major action by the IRA in the War of Independence took place when almost 300 men and many women took part in an attack on Dublin’s Custom House, the financial heart of British rule in Ireland, intent on burning all documentation…
Read MoreDonegal Centenary Lectures 2021
Roger Casement Commemoration
‘The truce of 11 July 1921: A natural end to the War of Independence or sowing the seeds of Civil War?’
“The truce of 11 July 1921: A natural end to the War of Independence or sowing the seeds of Civil War?” Available on Galway Beo Facebook page and Galway Beo YouTube Channel Sunday 11 July 2021 at 1pm This lecture explores the events surrounding the truce of 11 July 1922 that brought an end to…
Read MoreDr Conor McNamara: Galway County Council Historian-in-Residence for 2021
Galway County Council Appoints Historian-in-Residence for 2021 As part of its commitment to the current programme of commemorative events connected with the ongoing Decade of Commemorations 2013–2023, Galway County Council is delighted to announce that Dr Conor McNamara has been appointed to the position of Historian-in-Residence for 2021. The decade 1913-1923 was one of the…
Read MoreMonaghan’s War of Independence
Streaming on https://www.facebook.com/MonaghanCountyMuseum/
Read MoreSeminar: The Military Aspects of the War of Independence, 1919-1921
Mayo in the revolutionary decade
Despite a notable revolutionary pedigree—scene of a French invasion in support of the 1798 Rebellion and cradle of the Land League in 1879—Mayo was a ‘slow starter’ in the War of Independence, with major IRA engagements with Crown forces only starting in the spring of 1921. It was also the scene of major agrarian unrest.…
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