Posts Tagged ‘Westmeath’
15 November 2018: ‘The voice of WW1’, Aidan Heavey Library, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
In November 2018 Westmeath County Libraries will present a series of three seminars hosted by Ciara Murphy exploring three different texts which explore the Irish experience of the First World War. These seminars highlight the importance of both the given and the imagined image, and the dominant and silenced voices of war. They illuminate the…
Read More14-23 November 2018: Exhibition on ‘World War One: The Westmeath connection’, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
Between Wednesday 14 November and Wednesday 23 November 2018, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, Westmeath County Council presented an exhibition in Mullingar entitled ‘World War One: The Westmeath connection’. This exhibition was an initiative of the Westmeath Heritage Forum. It offered insights not only into the sheer scale of…
Read More12 November 2018: ‘Westmeath and the Great War, 1914-1918’, Moate, Co. Westmeath
On Monday 12 November Moate Museum and Historical Society presented a lecture by Ruth Illingworth, entitled ‘Westmeath and the Great War, 1914-1918’. The lecture took place in the Grand Hotel, Moate, at 8.15pm.
Read More11 November 2018: Ecumenical service of remembrance, All Saints’ Church, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
On Sunday November 11 1918, All Saints’ Church, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, held a special ecumenical service of remembrance to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. This included the traditional two minute silence at 11am to mark the moment at which the armistice that ended the war came into effect, and…
Read More9-11 November: ‘North Westmeath remembers the Great War’, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
From Friday November 9 to Sunday November 11 North Westmeath Historical Society presented a series of lectures on the First World War in Westmeath and its neighbouring counties in Castlepollard. There was also be an ecumenical service at St Michael’s Church, Castlepollard, 3pm on 11 November, with the unveiling of a plaque at in memory of those…
Read More8 November 2018: ‘The voice of WW1’, Aidan Heavey Library, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
In November 2018 Westmeath County Libraries will present a series of three seminars hosted by Ciara Murphy exploring three different texts which explore the Irish experience of the First World War. These seminars highlight the importance of both the given and the imagined image, and the dominant and silenced voices of war. They illuminate the…
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