Events in October 2018
30 Oct-3 Nov 2018: Louth Libraries Festival of History, various locations, Co. Louth
Between Tuesday 30 October and Saturday 3 November 2018 Louth Public Libraries will hosted a centenary history festival across its branch libraries, exploring the events of 1918. These included: the end of the First World War, the experience of women in the revolutionary period, the shifting counters of Irish nationalism after 1916 and the decline…
Read More23 October 2018: ‘Pandemic: Ireland and the Great Flu 1918-19’, Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Dublin 11
On Tuesday 23 October 2018 Glasnevin Trust and Trinity College Dublin’s School of Histories and Humanities presented a one day conference to mark the centenary of the ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The pandemic travelled emerged in the latter months of the First World War, and was transported across the globe as armies demobilised on an…
Read More21 October 2018: ‘Women: Their contribution to Irish history and society’, Moylough, Co. Galway
On Sunday 21 October 2018 Moylough Heritage Society in partnership with the Heritage Office of Galway County Council, held a conference on ‘Women: Their contribution to Irish history and society’ in Moylough Community Centre, Moylough, Co. Galway. The conference was held to mark the Representation of the People Act (1918), which for the first time…
Read More14 October 2018: Centenary commemoration of sinking of ‘SS Dundalk’, Dundalk, Co. Louth
On Sunday 14 October 2018 a number of events were held in Dundalk, Co. Louth, to commemorate the sinking of the SS Dundalk on 14 October 1918. the Dundalk was built in Glasgow in 1899, and was used to service the route between Dundalk and Liverpool, carrying cargo and passengers. It was torpedoed by a…
Read More11 October 2018: ‘Chemical weapons, blockades and captivity: How the First World War redefined war norms’, St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, Dublin 4
On Thursday 11 October 2018 St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, hosted a lecture by Heather Jones (UCL), entitled ‘Chemical weapons, blockades and captivity: How the First World War redefined war norms’ The First World War is often seen as having changed the ‘face of battle’. One of the ways that the war represented a new departure…
Read More18 October 2018: ‘Without any revolution and riots: The quiet collapse of the Habsburg Empire, 1918’, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2
On Thursday 18 October a new six-part public lecture series entitled ‘1918 and the New Europe’ began at Trinity College Dublin. The lecture series will hear from national and international experts who will re-examine the significance of 1918 as the beginning of a new European order. The series will focus on the collapsing empires and the…
Read More17 October 2018: Launch of ‘Michael Collins: The man and the revolution’, GPO Witness History, Dublin 1
On Wednesday 17 October 2018 GPO Witness History hosted the launch of Anne Dolan and William Murphy’s Michael Collins: The man and the revolution. Drawing on archives in Ireland, Britain and the United States, this new fully illustrated biography approaches the iconic figure of Collins through the eyes of contemporaries and historians, friends and enemies, this provocative…
Read More10 October 2018: Official centenary commemoration of the sinking of the RMS Leinster, Dún Laoghaire
On Wednesday 10 October 2018 an official commemoration took place in Dún Laoghaire to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Leinster and to remember all of those who perished in the tragedy. The Leinster was originally built for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company to service its route across the Irish…
Read More7 October 2018: History Ireland Hedge School: ‘The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea’, National Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire
On Sunday 7 October the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Haigh Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, hosted a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate on ‘The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea’. Just before 10am on 10 October 1918, east of the Kish Bank, two torpedoes fired by the German submarine UB-123 struck the 2,640-ton packet…
Read More6 October: Seminar on ‘The black flu and the khaki election’, Naas, Co. Kildare
On Saturday 6 October 2018 the 19th Annual Seminar of the County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups took place in the Osprey Hotel, Naas, Co. Kildare, on the subject of ‘The black flu and the khaki election’.The ‘Spanish’ flu pandemic of 1918-19 emerged in the latter months of the First World War, and was transported…
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