Events in April 2017
5 May 2017: Launch of ‘Portraits: Women of Cork and the US. Navy 1917-1919’, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork
On Friday 5 May Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, hosted the opening of a new exhibition curated by Damien Shiels (Rubicon), entitled Portraits: women of Cork and the US Navy, 1917-19. In 1917 thousands of American naval servicemen came to Ireland to participate in the First World War. Their interactions with local women, particularly…
Read More4 May 2017: History Ireland ‘Hedge School: ‘Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917’, Cobh Library, Cobh, Co. Cork
On Thursday 4 May, as part of CAFE Readers and Writers Festival, Cobh Library hosted a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate entitled ‘Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917’. 1917 was the pivotal year of the First World War. At its outset German U-boats were inflicting huge damage on Allied shipping, while…
Read More26 April 2017: Launch of Joe Connell’s ‘Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-1922’, Hodges Figgis, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 26 April 2017 Wordwell Books and Hodges Figgis will presented the launch of Joe Connell’s Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-1922. It is unclear whether the republican leader Michael Collins (1890-1922) spent more than a night in Dublin prior to leaving for London to work in the British Post Office in 1906, but his presence there…
Read More25 April 2017: Dublin City Hall lunchtime lecture: ‘Islandbridge: people, places, pictures’, Dublin City Hall, Dublin 2
On Tuesday 25 April 2017 Dublin City Council presented the fourth and last of its 2017 lunchtime lecture series on the theme of ‘Remembrance & commemoration: the First World War’. The First World War was at that date the most devastating conflict in world history – never before had so many people been slaughtered and…
Read More24 April 2017: ‘Commemorating 1916: a retrospective discussion’, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2
On Monday 24 April 2017 the Irish Historical Society’s April meeting presented a panel discussion entitled ‘Commemorating 1916: A Retrospective Discussion’, with Prof. David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design) and Lar Joye (National Museum of Ireland). The discussion took place at 7pm in the Neill Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity…
Read More22-23 April 2017: BOACC Ashbourne Living History Festival, Ashbourne, Co. Meath
On Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 April 2017 the BOACC Ashbourne Living History Festival took place at Donaghmore/Ashbourne GAA Club. This year’s festival was intended to mark the centenary of the death of the republican leader Thomas Ashe, and showcased Ashbourne’s link to Thomas Ashe, along with his contribution to the struggle for Irish independence and…
Read More21 April 2017: History Ireland ‘Hedge School’: ‘Now you see them, now you don’t’: women in the Irish revolution’, Mechanics Institute, Galway
On Friday 21 April, as part of the Women’s History Association of Ireland annual conference, a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate took place in the Mechanics Institute, Middle St, Galway, entitled ‘Now you see them, now you don’t’: women in the Irish revolution.’ This explored the role of women in the revolutionary decade, as activists,…
Read More20 April 2017: Launch of ‘Portrait of a century’ exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7
On Wednesday 20 April 2017 President Michael D. Higgins launched the exhibition Portrait of a century at the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7. This photographic exhibition by Dublin-born photographer Kim Haughton was intended to encapsulate modern Ireland in the century after the Easter Rising via portraits of 100 individuals,…
Read More18 April 2017: Dublin City Hall lunchtime lecture: ‘The Iegacy of Ireland’s role in the First World War’, Dublin City Hall, Dublin 2
On Tuesday 18 April 2017 Dublin City Council presented the third of its 2017 lunchtime lecture series on the theme of ‘Remembrance & commemoration: the First World War’. The First World War was at that date the most devastating conflict in world history – never before had so many people been slaughtered and so many…
Read More16 April 2017: State ceremony to mark 101st anniversary of the Easter Rising, O’Connell St, Dublin 2
On Easter Sunday, 16 April 2017, a state ceremony took place outside the GPO, O’Connell St, Dublin 2, to mark the 101st anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916. The ceremony was led by the President Michael D. Higgins, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, and the Minister of State with responsibility for defence, Paul Kehoe TD.…
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