Posts Tagged ‘Mansion House’
18-20 January 2019: Dublin City Council commemoration of first Dáil Éireann, Mansion House, Dublin 2
From Friday 18 January to Sunday 20 January 2019 Dublin City Council presented a series of open days in the Mansion House, Dublin 2, to mark the centenary of the first meeting of Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House on 21 January, 1919. Over three days, the public were invited to visit the building, and view the…
Read More9 June 2018: Lá na mBan commemoration, Mansion House, Dublin 1
On Saturday 9 June 2019 SIPTU hosted a commemorative event in the forecourt of the Mansion House, Dublin to mark the centenary of ‘Lá na mBan’, 9 June 1918. This had arisen from the conscription crisis of 1918, and thousands of female activists took to the streets for Women’s Day/Lá na mBan to register another concerted…
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…
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