Official Commemoration
100 Years of Women in Politics and Public Life, 1918-2018
A major new national exhibition entitled Women in Politics and Public Life 1918 to 2018 – a Pop-Up Museum is set to go on display in County Roscommon at Áras an Chontae. The exhibition is part of the decade of centenaries programme of Roscommon County Council which explores 100 years of women’s participation in politics…
Read MoreIndependence Day?
What date marks Ireland’s independence? Ronan McCreevy remarked in his recent Irish Times article that it ‘is a peculiarity of Irish life that an independence sought for so long and at such cost is not celebrated.’ A History Ireland article written by Dennis Kennedy in 2018 is also worth revisiting in 2019, a year with…
Read MoreEaster Sunday GPO 2019
Photographic credit to Patrick Hugh Lynch
Read MoreIrish Military Seminar 13-15 June 2019
As part of Kildare’s Decade of Commemorations, the third Irish Military Seminar will be held 13-15 June 2019 in the Riverbank Arts Centre & Newbridge Community Library. Thursday 6th June at Newbridge Library @ 7pm Official opening of the Seminar Book Launch — A Bloody Dawn: The Irish at D-Day, Dan Harvey Free, booking essential Newbridge Library…
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 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 More