Social history
Remembering so we don’t forget: the National Folklore Collection
For nearly ninety years, the National Folklore Collection has collected oral history from all over the country. One period, however, remained relatively unrecorded – the Civil War. The Collection’s new endeavour, the Civil War Memory Project, may be the last meaningful opportunity to record memories of this tumultuous period, explains director Dr Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh…
Read More8th May @ 7.45pm Protestant and Irish – The minority’s search for place in independent Ireland, a talk by Dr Ida Milne Celbridge Community Library St Patrick’s Park, Celbridge
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Read MoreThe Irish Women Workers’ Union, 1911-1984
Teatime Talk at 14 Henrietta Street: The Irish Women Workers’ Union, 1911-1984. Wednesday, May 10 at 6:00pm (in-person). Dr James Curry will provide a brief illustrated history of the Irish Women Workers’ Union, founded in 1911.The talk will examine the fluctuating fortunes of the union during its 73 year existence, and look at a selection…
Read MoreWaterford and the Farm Labourers’ Strike of 1923
As part of their ongoing commemorations programme the Waterford CommemorationsCommittee are hosting a seminar on May 4th in the Park Hotel, Dungarvan to mark the FarmLabourers’ strike of 100 years ago in 1923. Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. Registration *here* The half day seminar involves presentations by Dr Emmett O’Connor, Dr Pat…
Read MoreUntold Stories
Tipperary Museum of Hidden History presents… ‘Untold Stories’ A new Civil War exhibition traces the historic and contentious period of Civil War in Ireland and highlights aspects of Tipperary’s involvement through the men and women on the ground. The exhibition is an explosion of colourised photographs from 1921 – 1924, expertly and accurately remastered. The…
Read More‘The Other Civil War’
‘The Other Civil War’ Zoom Talk With Myles Dungan (RTÉ History Show) County Kildare Decade of Commemorations are hosting an online talk by Myles Dungan (RTÉ History Show) on Thursday 20th April at 7PM. Titled ‘The Other Civil War’, this talk centres on the relatively unknown story of the hated land seizures of 1919-23. Free State…
Read MoreLaois Decade of Centenaries Lectures
Laois Libraries in collaboration with Terry Dunne, Laois Historian-in-Residence, is delighted to present two online history talk in March. The first talk, The Dublin Guard in the Civil War by John Dorney, takes place on Tuesday 7 March 2023 at 7 pm. This online event tells the story of Mick Dunne, who was of Portarlington-extraction,…
Read MoreMultilingual Legacies
This symposium – funded by the Royal Irish Academy and hosted by Roinn na Gaeilge at Queen’s University Belfast – brings together scholars working across different languages to consider how Ireland’s revolutionary period has been conveyed to non-English language audiences through different forms and during different political moments. Booking *here*
Read MorePoetry as Commemoration (Kilkenny/Tipperary/Wexford)
Poetry as Commemoration workshops coming to Kilkenny Dates: Wednesdays 8th & 15th of March Time: 2.30pm-4.30pm. Location: Kilkenny City Branch Library, John’s Quay. Poet and fiction writer, Mary O’Donnell, will lead two Poetry as Commemoration workshops at Kilkenny City Branch Library during which participants will respond to local and national archival material from the War of…
Read MoreDecade of Centenaries Bursary
Royal Irish Academy opens local history research fund for the final year of the Decade of Centenaries Programme The Royal Irish Academy are pleased to open the Decade of Centenaries Bursary scheme onceagain, as part of the commemorative programme for the final year of the Decade of Centenaries,supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts,…
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