Events in October 2014
30 October 2014: Minister Humphreys launches book on Belgian refugees in Monaghan during WW1
On 30 October 2014 the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, launched a new book by Monaghan’s Belgian Square Centenary Association about the Belgian refugees who came to Co. Monaghan during World War One. The book, entitled Belgian Square, 100 Years, aims to remember the impact of World War One on…
Read More29 October 2014: Launch of ‘Easter widows: seven Irish women who lived in the shadow of the Easter Rising’, Mansion House, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 29 October the Mansion House, Dawson St, Dublin 2, hosted the launch of Easter widows: seven Irish women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 rising, by Sinead McCoole (Director, Jackie Clarke Collection). The book was launched by Dr Margaret MacCurtain. Easter widows explores the lives and experience of the wives of the seven executed signatories of…
Read More28 October 2014: Robert Gerwarth lecture on art of World War One, Wexford library
On Tuesday 28 October Robert Gerwarth, director of the UCD School of War Studies, presented an illustrated talk entitled ‘In Flanders’ Fields: The Great War through the eyes of writers, poets, and artists’. From History Ireland: Keith Jeffrey on Irish artists of the First World War.
Read More28 October 2014: ’16 Lives’ launch, Dublin
On Tuesday 28 October 2014 Hodges Figgis bookshop, on Dawson St, Dublin 2, hosted the launch of the latest volumes in the O’Brien Press ’16 Lives’ series. The series was launched in 2012, and consists of biographies of the 16 men executed for their involvement in the Easter Rising of 1916. The two volumes being…
Read More28 October 2014: Minister Humphreys attends WW1 commemoration in Flanders and launches Google project and new bursary scheme for WW1 research
On Tuesday 28 October 2014 the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, travelled to Flanders to attend a number of First World War commemorative events in Flanders, Belgium. In the course of the trip the Minister launched a new Google online exhibition on Irish involvement in the First World War, which…
Read More25 October 2014: ‘Soldiers and civilians: experiences and memories of the First World War’, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
On Saturday 25 October 2014 the National Museum of Ireland (Decorative Arts and History), Collins Barracks, Dublin 7, hosted its seventh conference on the First World War, entitled ‘Soldiers and civilians: experiences and memories of the First World War’. The conference discussed Irish and international perspectives on the conflict and ways of commemorating it. Speakers included…
Read More24-27 October 2014: Fourteenth Ernest Shackleton Autumn School, Athy, Co. Kildare
The fourteenth annual Ernest Shackleton Autumn School was held in Athy, Co. Kildare, on 24-27 October 2014. The explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was born in Co. Kildare, and is best known for the series of Antarctic expeditions he was involved in between 1901 and 1916. 2014 marks the centenary of the ‘Imperial trans-Antarctic expedition’, led…
Read More23 October 2014: Evening of remembrance for those affected by the First World War, Pearse Street Public Library, Dublin
On Thursday, 23rd October Pearse Street Public Library hosted an evening of remembrance in memory of Irish people affected by the First World War. The event was compered by Gary Kilgallen, former chair of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement. The poet Paula Meehan read a selection of poems reflecting the theme of the evening. Tom…
Read More23 October 2014: Opening of ‘Frank Browne: through the lens’ exhibition, Farmleigh, Dublin
On 23 October 2014 a new exhibition opened at Farmleigh, entitled Frank Browne: through the lens. This is an exhibition of a wide selection of photographs taken by the Cork-born Jesuit Frank Browne (1880-1960). The exhibition ran until 23 December. Browne took his first photographs during a European tour in 1897, just before joining the…
Read More22 October 2014: Publication of Irish Times supplement on Ireland and World War One
On 22 October 2014 The Irish Times published the sixth in its series of ‘Century’ special supplements, with the support of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The supplement was entitled Too much to hope: Ireland’s experience of the ‘war to end all war’. As noted by Patrick Smyth in his introduction, ‘commemoration and the rediscovery…
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