The Halfway House, at the junction of Walkinstown Road and Drimnagh Road, is steeped in history. Why was it raided and set on fire in 1921, at the height of...
Apologies, this event is now cancelled. Talk presented by Dr Usama Gad, Ain Shams University, Cairo. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is one of the largest museums of antiquity in...
Servants and enslavers; merchants and governors; educators and journalists – the history of the Irish in the Caribbean is complex and multifaceted. This talk will survey Irish migration to the...
Historian Liam O'Meara will reveal that it was at Inchicore that the Grand Canal’s first lock was located; here that the old mail coaches would pass down Chapel Road to...
The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation is central to Aodh Quinlavan’s recent absorbing study which captures the mood in the capital during a period of...
Coolock Library will host Dr Ruth McManus for a fascinating talk on the development of Coolock and Artane. From the 1950s onwards, the fields and rural hinterland of Coolock, Artane...
Presented by Dr. James Curry, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence for the North West area. This lecture will discuss the Shelbourne FC career of Henry McKop and tell the...
**Booked out** Dublin City Council Historian in Residence for Dublin Central, Mary Muldowney, is working with Dr Declan O'Brien on a history of the Dublin Cattle Market from its opening...