Events in April 2015
21 April 2015: Irish Historical Society panel discussion on Gallipoli campaign, Boston College (Dublin), 43 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
On Tuesday 21 April 2015, to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings of April 1915, the monthly meeting of the Irish Historical Society hosted a panel discussion on Gallipoli campaign. The speakers were Tom Burke (University College Dublin); Dr William Mulligan (University College Dublin); and Dr David Murphy (Maynooth University). The meeting was chaired by Lar Joye…
Read More18 April 2015: The Easter Rising: Irish Volunteer drills, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7
On Saturday 18 April from 2-4pm the National Museum of Ireland Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7, hosted a re-enactment or the practice drills conducted by the Irish Volunteers between 1913 and 1916. The Irish Volunteers were founded in November 1913 as a nationalist militia that could act as a counterweight to the…
Read More16 April 2015: Co. Wexford launch of ‘Letters of 1916’ project, Enniscorthy Library, Co, Wexford
On Thursday 16 April the Wexford launch of the Letters of 1916 project took place in Enniscorthy Library from 6-9pm. The project was originally set up to create a crowd-sourced archive of personal letters and testimonies relating to the period before and after the Easter Rising, from 1 November 1915 to 31 October 1916. To date, it…
Read More14 April 2015: History Ireland ‘Hedge School’: ‘The road to Gallipoli’, National Library of Ireland, Dublin
On Tuesday 14 April the National Library of Ireland hosted a History Ireland Hedge School debate entitled ‘The road to Gallipoli’. April 2015 sees the centenary of the Gallipoli landings of 1915, in which the 10th (Irish) Division participated. The debate was be chaired by History Ireland editor Tommy Graham, and the panelists were Myles…
Read More10-11 April 2015: Women’s History Association of Ireland annual conference: ‘Irish women in the First World War era’, Maynooth University.
On 10-11 April 2015 Maynooth University hosted the annual conference of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI). The theme of this years conference was ‘Irish women in the First World War era’. Click here for details of the conference. From the International encyclopedia of the First World War: Women’s mobilization for war.
Read More8 April 2015: ‘They did us proud: our heroes gone’: unveiling of painting of 1916 Rising, East Wall, Dublin 3
On Tuesday 8 April 2015 Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke, unveiled a new painting by Eilish Lynch entitled The did us proud: our heroes gone, by artist Eilish Lynch will be unveiled in the Seán O’Casey Community Centre, East Wall, Dublin 3. A gift to the East Wall History Group, the painting is a representation…
Read More7 April-10 May 2015: Gallipoli and the Great War: contemporary paintings on World War One by Paul Woods, Leixlip Library Gallery
Between 7 April-10 May 2015 Leixlip Library Gallery will host an exhibition by the Irish artist Paul Woods, entitled ‘Gallipoli and the Great War’. The exhibition focused on the commemoration of the Gallipoli landings and campaign in April 1915, in which many Irish men fought and died. It also followed the trail of the main…
Read More6 April 2015: RTÉ Road to the Rising, O’Connell St, Dublin 2
On 6 April 2015—Easter Monday—RTÉ organised a major commemorative event entitled Road to the Rising. The event was being conducted in collaboration with An Post, Dublin City Council, and the Ireland 2016 initiative. The over-arching theme was to explore life in the the Ireland of 1915 in as a broad a manner as possible. Road to…
Read More5 April 2015: State commemoration of 99th anniversary of Easter Rising, O’Connell St, Dublin 2
On Sunday 5 April 2015 the official state ceremony marking the 99th Anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 took place outside the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 2 from 12pm onwards. The ceremony by led by the President Michael D. Higgins, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD and Defence Minister Simon Coveney TD. At noon the National…
Read More5 April 2015: ‘Remembering 1916’, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11
On Easter Sunday, 5 April, the first official 2015 commemoration of the Easter Rising began at 9.30am in Glasnevin Cemetery with the raising of the tri-colour and the laying of wreaths at the Sigerson Memorial, a monument to the men and women who fell during Easter Week 1916. The event was attended by Minister for Arts, Heritage and…
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