Events in October 2015
31 October 2015: ‘Revolutionary Decade Roadshow’, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
On Saturday 31 October Waterford City and Council, in association with University College Cork, organised a ‘Revolutionary Decade Roadshow’ in the Park Hotel, Dungarvan, from 11am. to 4pm. The event consisted of a wide range of displays, performances, presentations and consultations relating to the revolutionary period (1913-23). Click here for full details. From the National Archives…
Read More23-25 October 2015: ‘Street stories’ 1916 Festival, Dublin 7
From Friday 23 October to Sunday 25 October 2015 the Stoneybatter & Smithfield Peoples History Project hosted their annual ‘Street Stories’ festival on the theme of the 1916 Rising in the Dublin 7 area. The festival took place in a number of venues in the areas of Smithfield and Stoneybatter, and incorporated a number of…
Read More21 October 2015: Launch of ‘Who’s who in the Dublin Rising 1916’, Bonham’s, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 Bonhams, Dublin 2, hosted the launch of Who’s who in the Dublin Rising 1916, by Joseph E.A. Connell Jnr. The book is a comprehensive listing of the members of the various Dublin garrisons who fought in the Easter Rising of 1916, and provides a short biography of all participants. The book…
Read More21 October 2015: ’16 Lives’ launch, Hodges Figgis, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 Hodges Figgis bookshop, 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 released in…
Read More21 October 2015: Launch of ‘The GAA and Revolution in Ireland, 1913-1923’, Croke Park, Dublin 1
On Wednesday 21 October Croke Park and The Collins Press hosted the launch of The GAA and Revolution in Ireland, 1913-1923, edited by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUIG). The book explores how the GAA, as a major sporting and national body, both influenced and was influenced by the upheaval that marked the decade between the labour conflict (the ‘Lockout’)…
Read More20 October 2015: Public Lecture by Prof. Roy Foster (Oxford): ‘Historians and the memory of the Irish Revolution’, Trinity College Dublin
On Tuesday 20 October Prof. Roy Foster (Oxford) gave the 2015 Edmund Burke Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, entitled “‘An inheritance from our forefathers?’ Historians and the memory of the Irish Revolution”. Prof. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and is currently Parnell Fellow at the University of Cambridge.…
Read More17 October 2015: Opening of ‘Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915): a centenary perspective’, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 2
On Saturday 17 October 2015 a new exhibition entitled ‘Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915): a centenary perspective’ opened at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 2. It has been curated to mark the centenary of Lane’s death on the Lusitania in May 1915. The exhibition aims to give a more rounded view of Lane’s life and personality, his…
Read More16 October 2015: ‘Revolting Women: Nationalism, Suffrage and Labour, 1912-1924 Digital, Seminar & Public Lecture’, Newman House, Dublin 2
On 16 October 2015 UCD Decade of Centenaries and Kilmainham Gaol hosted a seminar entitled ‘Revolting Women: Nationalism, Suffrage and Labour, 1912-1924’. Building on the Irish Research Council funded project Following the Fighters? This project developed insights from new and underused sources to investigate the experience of female political imprisonment in ‘Revolutionary Ireland’. It will analyse…
Read More13 October 2015: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre lectures: ‘Irish medicine during World War One’, RCPI, Kildare St, Dublin 2
On 13 October the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre hosted a one-day symposium entitled ‘Irish medicine and World War One’. Speakers included John Horne (TCD), Keith Jeffrey (QUB) and Brendan Kelly (UCD). The lectures were followed by the award of the annual Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award. Click here for full details…
Read More9 October 2015: Opening of ‘Shot at dawn’ exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 8
On 9 October 2015 a new exhibition entitled Shot at Dawn opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Shot at dawn comprises a new body of work by the British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews that focuses on the sites at which soldiers from the British, French and Belgian armies were executed for cowardice and desertion…
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