Social history
Pat Walsh Memorial Society Kilkenny
The Pat Walsh Memorial Society (Kilkenny) held several events this year, including the parade held during the Pat Walsh Memorial Weekend (2019 parade in picture) Captain Patrick Walsh DUNNAMAGGIN B. COY. 8th Batt. Kilkenny Brigade I.R.A. The circumstances of Pat Walsh’s death can be read in Kilkenny: In Times of…
Read More'From Turmoil to Truce: Photographs of the War of Independence’
‘From Turmoil to Truce: Photographs of the War of Independence’ is a new National Library of Ireland exhibition at the Library’s photographic archive in Temple Bar. Having visited this exhibition today it would be tempting to post all the photographs here – such is the quality of those chosen for this exhibition. Some photos…
Read MoreBeyond 2022: Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD announced €2.5 million in Government funding today for a flagship research project led by Trinity College Dublin which will digitally recreate seven centuries of historical records of the Public Record Office of Ireland destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War. The destruction…
Read More‘From Turmoil to Truce: Photographs of the War of Independence’
From Turmoil to Truce: Photographs of the War of Independence is a new National Library of Ireland exhibition at the Library’s photographic archive in Temple Bar. It draws on the NLI’s rich and varied holdings of photographs and newspaper cuttings, and explores the key aspects of a dramatic, brutal and extreme period of Irish history,…
Read MoreAlice Stopford Green: a new plaque
The unveiling ceremony for the memorial plaque to Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929), which has been commissioned by the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, took place in Kells on Saturday, 7 December. Alice Stopford Green was a native of Kells (daughter of the Church of Ireland rector, Archdeacon Stopford), born in the old Archdeaconry (now Blackwater…
Read MoreThe Celtic Revival
The Celtic Revival A public seminar organised by the Meath History Workshop and supported by Meath County Council under the Decade of Commemorations programme. Saturday, 23 November 2019, 2-4.30pm Columbanus Hall, Cannon Row, Navan Speakers: The Revival and the Irish Republic of Letters – Dr P.J. Mathews (School of English, Drama and Film, UCD) …
Read MoreHistory Ireland: November/December edition out now
The new issue of ‘History Ireland’ is in the shops. As usual it covers a broad range of historical topics, this month they include: Donal Fallon: New radical voices in the Irish Newspaper Archives Fiona Fitzsimons: Ordnance Survey employment records Kenneth Milne: Disestablishment—in the nick of time Quincey Dougan: The Orange revival in King’s County…
Read MoreDelivering Justice: The Law Courts in Dublin Castle (1923 – 1931)
‘Delivering Justice: The Law Courts in Dublin Castle (1923 – 1931)’ The ‘Delivering Justice’ exhibition showcases some rarely-seen-before images of the State Apartment rooms being fitted and used for court purposes – St Patrick’s Hall, for example, was transformed into a makeshift law library – as well as reproductions of the legal diaries that were…
Read More‘Mobilise the poets’—art & culture in the Irish Revolution
History Ireland Hedge School ‘Mobilise the poets’—art & culture in the Irish Revolution @ the Allingham Festival, Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon 6pm Saturday 9 November So exhorted Arthur Griffith from his Gloucester Prison cell in January 1919. But how did the arts (literature, film, the visual arts, music and song) affect the Irish Revolution? How in turn…
Read MoreLabour and the North and the National Question
History Ireland Hedge School @ Mechanics Institute, Galway (in association with the ICTU, the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, NUI Galway and supported the Commemorations Unit of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht) 8pm Friday 8th November Labour and the North and the National Question James Connolly, executed for his…
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