19 August 2018: Annual Collins/Griffith commemoration, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11

On Sunday 19 August 2018 Glasnevin Trust hosted the annual Collins-Griffith commemoration, marking the 96th anniversary of the deaths of both Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in August 1922. The event was organised by the Collins-Griffith Commemoration Society, Glasnevin Trust and the Defence Forces. Arthur Griffith (1872-1922) was the politician and journalist who founded and later…

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16-19 August 2018: West Cork History Festival

The second West Cork History Festival took place from Thursday 16 August and Sunday 19 August in the grounds of Rosebank House, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. The festival covered a wide range of topics in time and space, with the centenary of the events of 1918 being a major theme. Speakers included John Horne (TCD), Robert…

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12-16 August 2018: Parnell Summer School, Co. Wicklow

From 12-16 August 2018 the 2018 Parnell Summer School took place at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, on the theme of ‘Democracy triumphant?’ On 14 December 1918, Irish voters went to the polls in the first post-war general election across the United Kingdom. Amidst the aftermath of the war and the legacy of the Easter…

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4-5 August 2018: Centenary of ‘Gaelic Sunday’, 1918

On Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 of August the GAA hosted a nationwide programme of events to mark the centenary of Gaelic Sunday, 4 August 1918. This was an organised protest undertaken against the increasing repression of the GAA by the British authorities in Ireland in the aftermath of the 1918 conscription crisis. From July…

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