Posts Tagged ‘Dublin’
19 May 2017: ‘Messines Peace Park: Its contribution to Irish / British reconciliation?’, Dublin City Hall, Dublin 2
On Friday 19 May 2017 Dublin City Library and Archive and The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association presented a seminar titled’Messines Peace Park: Its contribution to Irish / British reconciliation ? ” The purpose of building the Irish Peace Tower in the form of the ancient Irish round tower in Messines opened by President Mary McAleese…
Read More26 April 2017: Launch of Joe Connell’s ‘Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-1922’, Hodges Figgis, Dublin 2
On Wednesday 26 April 2017 Wordwell Books and Hodges Figgis will presented the launch of Joe Connell’s Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-1922. It is unclear whether the republican leader Michael Collins (1890-1922) spent more than a night in Dublin prior to leaving for London to work in the British Post Office in 1906, but his presence there…
Read More26 November 2016: ‘The battle of the Somme and the First World War’ seminar, Dublin City Library and Archives, Dublin 2
On Saturday 26 November, as part of Explore your archive week 2016, Dublin City Library and Archives hosted an afternoon seminar on ‘The battle of the Somme and the First World War’, arising from the current DCLA exhibition on the Somme. Subjects discussed included the design and research of the exhibition itself, the experience of…
Read More1 February 2014: ‘Dear dirty Dublin’: the Dublin Lockout’, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin 1
On Saturday 1 February 2014 Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane presented Dear Dirty Dublin: the Dublin Lockout, a special concert commemorating the Dublin Lockout 1913. The event took place in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Gallery,Parnell Square, Dublin 1.Dear Dirty Dublin was an expansion of the ‘Musical Tales’ project which toured Dublin City Libraries…
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