Events in June 2019
Mondays at The Mess
‘Mondays at The Mess’ at Richmond Barracks, off Bulfin Rd, Inchicore, Dublin 8 Monday 10th June 2019 at 11am Beyond 2022: Retrieving lost memories Speaker: Dr Ciarán Wallace, Department of History, TCD Beyond 2022 is an incredible project which is seeking to track surviving copies of records destroyed in the Four Courts bombing during the Civil War.…
Read MoreHidden Histories: Secrets and Stories from the War of Independence
A free public lecture by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Tues 11th June @ 6.30pm Seán Lemass Public Library, Shannon, Co Clare.
Read MoreThe War of Independence Lecture Series
Dublin City’s Historians in Residence are delivering a set of two part lecture series on the War of Independence. These will take place across a number of libraries and will be unique to each branch as the Historians In Residence explore the tumultuous years of the Irish War of Independence, featuring local stories and…
Read MoreEaster Sunday GPO 2019
Photographic credit to Patrick Hugh Lynch
Read More“By heavens, Joe, but there are great men in Ireland still”
Tuesday, 16th April 2019: A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries Lecture “By heavens, Joe, but there are great men in Ireland still”: Commandant Joseph Barrett (1888-1971) by Dr Paul O’Brien. DeValera Public Library, Ennis at 6.30pm. A talk about the recently discovered Archive of Joe Barrett of Kilrush and Darragh, Ballyea. Barrett was…
Read MoreLimerick Soviet 100: A Festival of Art and Activism
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A SOVIET IN LIMERICK… In April 1919 a general strike shook Limerick to its core. For two weeks workers took over the city, controlling food production and prices, and creating their own police force and currency. They were fighting against the imposition of martial law by the British Army,…
Read More13 April 2019: History Ireland ‘Hedge School’: ‘The Irish Revolution—local or global?’, Cobh Library, Co. Cork
On Saturday 13 April 2019, as part of CAFE Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Cobh Library, Co. Cork, will host a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ entitled ‘The Irish Revolution—local or global?‘ The runaway success of the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (and the recent parallel TV series), along with the proliferation of microstudies of the War of Independence…
Read More12 April 2019: History Ireland ‘Hedge School: ‘A Century of Women’: From 1919 in the wake of the Great War up to 2019’, Linen Hall Library, Belfast
On Friday 12 April 2019 the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, will host a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate on ‘”A century of women”’: From 1919 in the wake of the Great War up to 2019′. This Hedge School runs in conjunction with the current women’s history exhibition at the Linen Hall Library which aims to showcase…
Read More2 April 2019: City Hall lunchtime lecture series: Irish women and the Irish revolution
On Tuesday 2 April 2019 Dublin City Hall will host the first in its 2019 spring lecture series, on the subject of ‘Irish women and the Irish revolution’. The first lecture in the series will be given by Constance Cassidy, on the subject of Constance Markievicz; rebel and parliamentarian. The lecture will take place in…
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