Exhibitions
Garda Síochána Galway/Gaillimh 1922- 2022
Garda Síochána Galway/Gaillimh 1922- 2022 exhibition commemorates 100 years of An Garda Síochána serving the people of County Galway. “The Garda Síochána will succeed not by force of arms or numbers, but on their moral authority as servants of the people.” – Michael Staines, Garda Commissioner, 1922 A new exhibition entitled Garda Síochána Galway/Gaillimh 1922- 2022…
Read MoreThe Royal Munster Fusiliers
In collaboration with Cork Public Museum, the students of University CollegeCork Museum Studies programme are launching a new featured exhibition, The RoyalMunster Fusiliers: A Forgotten Regiment? to celebrate the centenary of the regiment’sdisbandment in July 1922. The Royal Munster Fusiliers was an Irish infantry regiment in the British armythat formed in 1881, though their roots…
Read More‘Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in Revolution 1920-1923’
‘Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in Revolution 1920-1923’…. A new exhibition and online lecture series for the Decade of Centenaries Programme, launched by Minister Martin. Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, launched ‘Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House…
Read MoreSeeing Ireland Art, Culture and Power in Paris, 1922.
In early 1922 the Irish State organised a seminal art exhibition at a fashionable art gallery in Paris: Galerie Barbazanges. The Exposition D’Art Irlandais launched the emerging Irish nation on the world stage. Visitors to this site can visit an immersive recreation of the exhibition and, for the first time in 100 years, experience Irish…
Read More‘BY EVERY MEANS AT OUR COMMAND’
NEW EXHIBITION AT CORK PUBLIC MUSUEM – FROM NOVEMBER 19th 2021 Cork City and County witnessed some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting during the War of Independence. Many of the military engagements in Cork had a significant impact on both the nature and outcome of the conflict. Cork Public Museum is delighted to announce…
Read MoreMinister Martin to open Treaty 1921 – Records from the Archives exhibition in London
Minister Martin to open Treaty 1921 – Records from the Archives exhibition in London The exhibition opening will mark 100 years from the start of negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Treaty at 10, Downing Street on 11 October 1921 Irish and British Treaties to be reunited 100 years after signing The Anglo-Irish Treaty is one of…
Read MoreEverest Expedition
Westmeath County Council, with funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, through their Decade of Centenaries Programme, has commissioned a Digital Exhibition to mark the Centenary of the first Everest Expedition led by Charles Howard Bury of Belvedere House. The Everest Expedition took several months and culminated on 20th– 24th September…
Read MoreFor Those That Tell No Tales
Dara McGrath: For Those That Tell No Tale 24 April – 29 August 2021 Crawford Art Gallery announces Dara McGrath’s forthcoming exhibition ‘For Those That Tell No Tales’ as part of the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 programme and will open as an online exhibition 24 April. Through 60 photographic works, McGrath explores the powerful living…
Read MoreBloody Sunday 1920-2020 @ GAA Museum Croke Park
GAA Museum announces plans to remember Bloody Sunday 100 years later. Centenary events series launched to mark 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday atrocity at Croke Park. The GAA Museum at Croke Park has launched a poignant commemorative events series to mark the centenary of Bloody Sunday, the darkest day in the history of…
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