Posts Tagged ‘Glasnevin Cemetery’
11 November 2018: State commemoration of Armistice Day, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11
On Sunday 11 November 2017 Glasnevin Trust hosted the official state event to mark Armistice Day, commemorating the end of the First World War. In 2008, Glasnevin Trust and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission set about the task of marking previously unmarked graves in Glasnevin Cemetery of World War I and World War II graves of soldiers,…
Read More23 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…
Read More19 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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