National and Local
The Local Government Archivists and Records Managers in association with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government have produced this booklet outlining the events of the local elections in 1920.
These were the first elections in Ireland to use Proportional Representation (PR) and the elections were undertaken while Ireland was still gripped by the War of Independence.
‘Poetry as Commemoration’
‘Poetry as Commemoration’ – A new partnership for the Decade of Centenaries with the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at University College Dublin (UCD) Library The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., today announced a new initiative under the Creative Imagination Strand of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023– ‘Poetry…
WICKLOW’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE The Historians’ Project
WICKLOW’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE The Historians’ Project Wicklow County Archives is proud to present the county publication ‘Wicklow and the War of Independence.’ The ebook version is launched to mark the anniversary of the Truce which officially began on the 11th of July 1921. The hard-copy of the book will launch, with the exhibition of…
Kerry: from the library archives
Kerry – May 1921 – from the library archives https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/footprints/footprints-may-4th-2021-235449 Kerry – June 1921 – from the library archives https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/footprints/footprints-june-1st-2021-238550 Kerry – July 1921 – from the library archives https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/footprints/footprints-july-6th-2021-242757
The Revolutionary Pat Keating of Comeragh
New Booklet on IRA Leader Pat Keating Launches on Friday 30th July March 2021 marked the 100-year anniversary of the death of local IRA leader Pat Keating during the War of Independence. Fatally wounded in the Burgery Ambush, Keating’s death at only 25 years of age was a blow to the local IRA movementhe had…
Custom House Talks: Dan Head
Dan Head – the boy in the picture. On May 25th, 1921, the last major action by the IRA in the War of Independence took place when almost 300 men and many women took part in an attack on Dublin’s Custom House, the financial heart of British rule in Ireland, intent on burning all documentation…