Posts Tagged ‘Sinn Fein’
5-6 May 2017: ‘1917 Centenary Reflections Conference’, Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 May the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, in association with Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society and Roscommon County Council Library Service and Heritage Office, presented a conference entitled ‘1917 Centenary Reflections’. Taking the North Roscommon bye-election of February 1917 as a starting point, this conference explored Irish life in the pivotal…
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On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Collins Griffith Commemoration Society held a seminar in the Mansion House, Dublin 2, entitled ‘Aftermath of the Rising: Reflecting on the politics of 1917’. This explored key events that took place in 1917 – the rise of Sinn Féin and the Irish Convention – and the manner in which this…
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