Posts Tagged ‘conscription crisis’
18 April 2018: Launch of exhibition: ‘"On active service"’: Maynooth College, chaplains and the anti-conscription crisis’, Maynooth University
On Wednesday 18 April 2018 Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, hosted the launch of a new exhibition entitled ‘”On active service”‘: Maynooth College, chaplains and the anti-conscription crisis’. Ireland’s national Roman Catholic seminary at Maynooth experienced a profound transformative period from the summer of 1916 until the winter of 1918. In 1917 the College publically supported the recruitment…
Read More18 April 2018: ‘Anti-conscription campaign: 100 years on’, Mansion House, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 18 April, 2018 Dublin City Council hosted a one-day conference to mark the Mansion House Conference against conscription which was convened and chaired by Lord Mayor Laurence O’Neill on 18 April 1918 at Dublin’s Mansion House. Conscription into the British armed forces had not been extended to Ireland during the First World War, and Irish nationalist…
Read More18 November 2017: Reflecting on a decade of war and revolution in Ireland 1912-1923: Propaganda and mobilisation: Ireland from Rising to conscription crisis, 1916-1918, UCD, Dublin 4
On Saturday 18 November 2017 Universities Ireland, the network of university presidents and vice-chancellors on the island of Ireland, sponsored the sixth in a series of conferences to commemorate the centenary of key events in the history of modern Ireland ranging from the Ulster Covenant, through the First World War and the 1916 Rising, to…
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