Official Commemoration
10 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 More8 July 2018: National Day of Commemoration, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7
On Sunday 8 July 2018 the principally ceremony of the National Day of Commemoration took place in Dublin. The ceremony is a multi-faith service of prayer and military ceremony commemorating all those Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations. It is held annually on the Sunday closest…
Read More1 April 2018: State commemorations of 102nd anniversary of the Easter Rising, Dublin
On Easter Sunday, 1 April 2018, the official state ceremonies to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 were held in Dublin. In the morning, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan TD attended a ceremony in Glasnevin Cemetery where she, along with Ms Sarah Tiffin, Deputy Head of Mission at the…
Read More9 July 2017: National Day of Commemoration, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8
On Sunday 9 July 2017 the principal ceremony of the National Day of Commemoration took place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8 National Day of Commemoration commemorates all Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations. It occurs on the Sunday nearest July 11, the anniversary of the…
Read More24 June 2017: Commemoration of the centenary of the death of Francis Ledwidge, Slane, Co. Meath
On Saturday 24 May 2017 an official state ceremony to commemorate the poert Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) took place in Slane, Co. Meath. A native of Slane, Ledwidge was the son of a farm labourer and, having left school at the age of 13, worked in a number of occupations. He was involved in labour politics…
Read More8-11 June 2017: Programme of events to mark centenary of the death of Major William (Willie) Redmond MP, Wexford
Between Thursday 8 June and Sunday 11 June 2017 Wexford County Council organised a sequence of events to commemorate the death of Major William (Willie) Redmond MP (1861-1917), the younger brother of the Home Rule leader John Redmond, who was killed on the Western Front. Willie Redmond was MP for East Clare, and having briefly…
Read More7 June 2017: Joint British-Irish ceremony to mark centenary of Battle of Messine, Island of Ireland Peace Park, Belgium
On 7 June 2017 the Island of Ireland Peace Park marks the centenary of the battle of Messines, on the Western Front. This was a preliminary engagement intended to prepare the way for a much wider Allied offensive in and around the Belgian city of Ypres (Ieper) in the summer of 1917; the objective was…
Read More16 April 2017: State ceremony to mark 101st anniversary of the Easter Rising, O’Connell St, Dublin 2
On Easter Sunday, 16 April 2017, a state ceremony took place outside the GPO, O’Connell St, Dublin 2, to mark the 101st anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916. The ceremony was led by the President Michael D. Higgins, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, and the Minister of State with responsibility for defence, Paul Kehoe TD.…
Read More30 March 2017: Community Relations Council (NI) Decade of Centenaries discussion: ‘Education, outreach and creativity’, DiverseCity Partnership, Derry-Londonderry
On Thursday 30 March 2017 the Community Relations Council (NI) hosted the third and final of its ‘Decade of Centenaries’ discussions. In recent years the Home Rule crisis, the Ulster Covenant, the rise of the labour movement, women and suffrage, the events leading up to outbreak of the First World War, Jutland, the Easter Rising…
Read More7-25 September 2016: ‘Composing the island: a century of music in Ireland, 1916-2016’, National Concert Hall, Dublin 2
Between 7 and 25 September 2016, the National Concert Hall presented a major musical centennial project. Composing the Island will present 29 concerts of orchestral, choral, instrumental, song and chamber music by Irish composers written between 1916 and 2016. How this music developed, and the times and circumstances in which it was written unfolded over 3 weeks…
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