Events in April 2015
27 April 2015: Launch of Fr. Francis Gleeson digital archive, Holy Cross Diocesan Centre, Dublin 3
On Monday 27 April 2015 the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmaid Martin, launched the digitised edition of the papers of Fr. Francis Gleeson at at a reception in Holy Cross Diocesan Centre, Dublin 3. The event was attended by members of Fr Gleeson’s family, the British Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Dominick Chilcott, and the…
Read More26 April 2015: Opening of Cobh Credit Union ‘Lusitania’ Centenary Photographic Collection, Cobh, Co. Cork
On 26 April 2015 the Cobh Credit Union Lusitania Centenary Photographic Collection went in display in Cobh, Co. Cork. The exhibition comprises of over sixty images, mostly taken in Cobh in the aftermath of the Lusitania disaster. The A.H. Poole Lusitania collection was digitised from glass plates held in the National Library of Ireland, and has never been…
Read More26 April 2015: Service of remembrance for Gallipoli landings, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8
On Sunday 26 April 2015 the annual Service of Remembrance for the Gallipoli landings took place in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8, at 3.30pm. The service was intended to complement the traditional dawn service on Saturday 25 April, and was open to the public. The commemorative nature of the evening service has been extended in recent…
Read More25 April 2015: Lecture on Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Gallipoli landings, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse St, Dublin 2
At 3 pm on Saturday 25 April 2015 Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, hosted a talk by Philip Lecane of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association the role played by the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915. The talk was entitled ‘Beneath a Turkish…
Read More25 April 2015: New Zealand Irish Association commemoration of centenary of ANZAC Day, Irish Film Institute, Dublin 2
On Saturday 25 April 2015 the New Zealand Ireland Association (NZIA) hosted a screening of rare photographic and film footage uniquely curated for the NZIA to mark the centenary of the landings at Gallipoli in 1915. In a world-first cinematic experience, the event also included a satellite broadcast of the centenary ANZAC Dawn Service from…
Read More25 April 2015: ANZAC Day dawn service, Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin 7
On Saturday 25 April 2014 at 6.30am a dawn service to mark ANZAC Day took place at Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7. The event was hosted by the Australian Embassy and was addressed by Minister of State Aodhán Ó Riordáin. ANZAC Day honours the men and women of Australia and New Zealand who…
Read More24-26 April 2015: ‘Gallipoli100’, Kells, Co. Meath
Between 24 and 26 April the weekly RTE Radio 1 programme The History Show and the organisers of the annual Hay Literary Festival in Kells combined to organise a commemorative event to mark the centenary of the beginning of the Dardanelles campaign in the First World War. Approximately 15,000 Irish soldiers fought at Gallipoli, and almost…
Read More24 April 2015: Commonwealth and Ireland commemoration service for Gallipoli campaign, Cape Helles, Turkey
On Friday 24 April 2015 a Commonwealth and Ireland commemoration service for the Gallipoli campaign took place at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Cape Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. The British-led campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles during the First World War lasted from February 1915 to January 1916; over 21,000 British and Irish troops…
Read More23 April 2015: Launch of ‘Century Ireland’ online exhibition on Gallipoli and lecture by Prof. Stuart Ward, National Library of Ireland, Dublin 2
On 23 April 2015 Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, launched a new online exhibition developed by Century Ireland on the Gallipoli campaign (25 April 1915-9 January 2016) in the National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2, at 6pm. The ‘Irish in Gallipoli’ website has been produced by Boston College, is a…
Read More22 April 2015: Opening of exhibitions on Gallipoli campaign, Dublin City Library and Archive, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 22 April two exhibitions went on display in the Dublin Room at Dublin City Library and Archive, entitled Fragments: Stories from Gallipoli 1915 and Çanakkale: Road to Peace out of War. Fragments: Stories from Gallipoli 1915 was curated by Dublin City Archives and drew mainly on sources from the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association Archive…
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