23 October 2018: ‘Pandemic: Ireland and the Great Flu 1918-19’, Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Dublin 11

On Tuesday 23 October 2018 Glasnevin Trust and Trinity College Dublin’s School of Histories and Humanities presented a one day conference to mark the centenary of the ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The pandemic travelled emerged in the latter months of the First World War, and was transported across the globe as armies demobilised on an…

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19 August 2018: Annual Collins/Griffith commemoration, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11

On Sunday 19 August 2018 Glasnevin Trust hosted the annual Collins-Griffith commemoration, marking the 96th anniversary of the deaths of both Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in August 1922. The event was organised by the Collins-Griffith Commemoration Society, Glasnevin Trust and the Defence Forces. Arthur Griffith (1872-1922) was the politician and journalist who founded and later…

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