Dublin Lockout
30 September 2017: Commemoration of SS Hare and SS Adela, Custom House Quay, Dublin 2
In December 1917, two merchant ships, the SS Hare and the SS Adela, were torpedoed by German U-boats and were lost in the Irish sea during the First World War. Thirty-six lives were lost on 14 December and 27 December 1917, which had a huge impact on the Dublin Docklands community, where many of these victims resided and…
Read More8 October 2016: Unveiling of memorial plaque to Irish Citizen Army, Inchicore, Dublin 8
On Saturday 8 October 2016 a plaque honouring local members of the Irish Citizen Army was unveiled at 122 Emmet Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8, the former home of executed ICA leader Michael Mallin. The Dublin District Council of SIPTU has unveiled a series of plaques to the ICA across the city. The unveiling was preceded…
Read More23 September-8 October 2016: Dublin Festival of History
The 2016 Dublin Festival of History took place from 23 September to 8 October 2016. The festival, which is managed by Dublin Public Libraries, was first hosted in 2013, and consists of a wide range of events: a series of lectures and discussions hosted in Dublin Castle Printworks; walking tours, public talks hosted in Dublin…
Read More23 May 2016: Launch of St Andrew’s School Roll Records Digitisation Project, St Andrew’s Resource Centre, Dublin 2
On Monday 23 May the St Andrew’s School Roll Records Digitisation Project was launched in St Andrew’s Resource Centre, 114-116 Pearse St, Dublin 2. This ongoing collaborative community project between students of Trinity College Dublin and St Andrews Resource Centre is digitising the school records of St Andrews National School from 1895 onwards, to provide…
Read More18 December 2015: Commemoration of the death of Alicia Brady, Dublin 2
On Friday 18 December 2015 a ceremony took place in Dublin to mark the anniversary of the death in 1913 of Alicia Brady. A member of the Irish Women Workers’ Union, Alicia was among the last people to die as a result of the social conflict surrounding the 1913 Lockout, having being hit by a…
Read More21 October 2015: Launch of ‘The GAA and Revolution in Ireland, 1913-1923’, Croke Park, Dublin 1
On Wednesday 21 October Croke Park and The Collins Press hosted the launch of The GAA and Revolution in Ireland, 1913-1923, edited by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUIG). The book explores how the GAA, as a major sporting and national body, both influenced and was influenced by the upheaval that marked the decade between the labour conflict (the ‘Lockout’)…
Read More20 October 2015: Public Lecture by Prof. Roy Foster (Oxford): ‘Historians and the memory of the Irish Revolution’, Trinity College Dublin
On Tuesday 20 October Prof. Roy Foster (Oxford) gave the 2015 Edmund Burke Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, entitled “‘An inheritance from our forefathers?’ Historians and the memory of the Irish Revolution”. Prof. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and is currently Parnell Fellow at the University of Cambridge.…
Read More31 July 2015: Debate on 'The Irish Citizen Army and the Easter Rising', Spirit of Mother Jones Festival, Shandon, Cork
On 31 July 2015 a debate on ‘The Irish Citizen Army and the Easter Rising’ took place Firkin Crane Theatre in Shandon, Cork City, as part of the ‘Spirit of Mother Jones Festival’. The debate explored the role of the Irish Citizen Army in the Easter Rising of 1916, and was chaired by Theo Dorgan. Speakers…
Read More18 June 2015: Launch of ‘The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth’, Keough-Naughton Centre, University of Notre Dame, Merrion Square, Dublin 2
On 18 June 2015 the University of Notre Dame’s Keogh-Naughton Centre, 58 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, hosted the launch of Sonja Tiernan (ed), The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth. This volume brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-926), the sister of the more famous Constance Markiewicz. The…
Read More16 June 2015: Public lecture by Prof. Joe Lee (NYU): ‘Thinking historically about the Decade of Centenaries’, Trinity College Dublin
On Tuesday 16 June 2015 Prof. Joe Lee (NYU) gave a public lecture in Trinity College Dublin entitled ‘Thinking historically about the Decade of Centenaries’. Prof Lee is Glucksman Chair of Irish History and Professor of Irish Studies at New York University. His books, The Modernization of Irish Society, 1848-1918 (Dublin, 1973, 2008) and the…
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