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Tours at the NMI – Decorative Arts and History

National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts & History Collins Barracks Benburb Street, Stoneybatter

Through Dublin Festival of History, join tour guides at the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History at Collins Barracks on a variety of engaging family tours exploring the...

Highlight Tour of Glasnevin Cemetery

Experience Glasnevin Finglas Road, Dublin 11

To celebrate the Dublin Festival of History, Experience Glasnevin is delighted to host a series of highlight tours of Glasnevin, visiting the crypt of the cemetery’s founder Daniel O’Connell, the...

Medicine in History and History in Medicine

The Edward Worth Library The Edward Worth Library Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin

**Booked out** Professor Davis Coakley (1946-2022) was an outstanding physician, historian, and leader of reform in medical services and education. This inaugural Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture explores the position of...

The role of Landlords during the Great Irish Famine

Annie Moore Room, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum The CHQ Building George's Dock, Dublin 1

**Booked out** What impact did the Great Famine have on land ownership and estate boundaries in Ireland? What did it mean for tenant farmers and how did the landed gentry...

Industrial heritage of Dublin south-east

Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Presented by the Dublin City Council Archaeology and Heritage sections, in association with the Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland. This lecture will focus on the industrial heritage of the south-eastern...

From 8th Amendment to Repeal of the 8th

Central Library Ilac Centre Henry St, Dublin 1

Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40th anniversary of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, including a comparison with the successful campaign for Repeal...

May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan

Dublin Unitarian Church 112 St Stephens Green Dublin 2, Dublin

This event remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820). Dr Drennan, a onetime elder of the Dublin Unitarian Church congregation, was born the son of a unitarian minister...