Virtual Treasury 101 Research Showcase:

Saturday, 1 July 2023 1.30 – 5pm Virtual Treasury 101 Research Showcase: Step into the Past and Back to the Future Venue: Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre (Room 2043) Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin (entrance via Nassau Street Gate) Full details and booking *here*

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Laois Decade of Centenaries Lectures

Laois Libraries in collaboration with Terry Dunne, Laois Historian-in-Residence, is delighted to present two online history talk in March. The first talk, The Dublin Guard in the Civil War by John Dorney, takes place on Tuesday 7 March 2023 at 7 pm. This online event tells the story of Mick Dunne, who was of Portarlington-extraction,…

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Kildare County Council Commemorative Activities 

New Publication – A Timeline of the Civil War in County Kildare, 1922-1924 The Co. Kildare Decade of Commemorations Programme has produced a new publication detailing many of the events that took place throughout County Kildare during the Civil War period. An event will take place in Kildare Town Community Library at 7.30PM on 1…

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KCLR’s new history programme launched for Heritage Week

KCLR’s New History Programme Launched for Heritage Week KCLR and Kilkenny County Council have announced details of a new 10 part weekly history series with the first edition being aired on KCLR on Tuesday August 23rd at 6:10 pm. The programme which is known simply as “The History Show” is being presented and produced by…

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Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

Dundalk Library will host an event with Ardee historian Dr Síobhra Aiken in conversation with Louth County Council Historian in Residence Dr. Thomas Tormey entitled Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War. It will be held in Dundalk Library on Tuesday, June 28th at 6pm as part of the Louth County Council Decade…

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Casement Summer School 2022

This year’s Roger Casement Summer School will take place from Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th May in the Lexicon, Moran’s Park, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. Highlights will include a debate on the Ukraine Crisis  between the MEPs Clare Daly and Barry Andrews, a Musical Evening featuring songs by Thomas Moore, Percy French and Thomas Davis with…

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The Handover of Dublin Castle: A Centenary Conference

On 16 January 1922 the Provisional Government took possession of Dublin Castle. This conference explores the significance of this moment. The conference, which is part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme, will explore the immediate reactions, the expected consequences, and the implications of this dramatic shift in the centre of power. Speakers will consider the…

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The Terror War

 The Terror War Author, historian and public speaker Joe Connell will discuss the effects of the actions of both sides of the Irish War of Independence, during which the British and the Irish sides often reflected one another. They both did well in some areas, and were deficient in others.  Further, it must be emphasised that both…

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