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 Republican Plot and the final resting place of Michael Collins. From poets and presidents, singers and suffragettes, the ordinary and the extraordinary - the stories...
This photographic exhibition about the recent excavations in St Canice's abbey and churchyard will open on Tuesday 26 September and run for the remainder of the festival. It will be open to the public during library opening hours: Tuesday 26 September – Saturday 14 October A 15-min talk on the St. Canice’s Photographic Exhibition by...
To mark the publication of a new Conservation Management Plan, Christ Church will host a series of talks discussing the past, present and future of this iconic Dublin building. Tuesday 26 September, 13:10-14:10 Frank Keohane – An Introduction to conserving Christ Church Linzi Simpson – Excavating the Four Courts at Christ Church Tuesday 3 October,...
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 Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
Visitors will be welcomed to Freemasons’ Hall, the headquarters of Irish Freemasonry since 1869. They will have the opportunity to explore the museum and will be guided around the Masonic meeting rooms which are decorated in Classical, Egyptian, Gothic and Tudor styles. Monday 25, Tuesday 26 and Friday 29 September, 15:00 each day Monday 2,...
This year, four memorial plaques will be erected by Dublin City Council in partnership with Dublin Fire Brigade. The plaques will mark the sites where a total of seven Dublin firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty. This is the story of those firefighters and how they are being remembered by the city...
The Gaelic Athletic Association is often evoked in terms of its objects: medals passed down from generation to generation, jerseys worn in All-Ireland finals, Michael Cusack’s blackthorn stick, a pair of glasses damaged during the events of Bloody Sunday. A History of the GAA in 100 Objects is a fascinating book that offers a new...
In 1886 Dublin’s Glass Bottle Makers went on strike to oppose a third successive pay-cut. To break the strike, the city’s bottle manufacturers brought over workers from Denmark and Sweden. However, the Scandinavians joined the strike which would eventually lead to the formation of an International Union of Glass Bottle-makers, who would have significant success...
This talk will discuss the fascinating life of Patrick O’Connell, a Dubliner who enjoyed a successful career as a professional footballer in Belfast and England during the early twentieth century before moving to Spain and managing clubs such as Racing Santander, FC Barcelona and Real Betis. A senior international with Ireland during the First World...
Join Alison Martin for this online talk on Countess Markievicz’s life and her propaganda cartoons in the lead up to and during the Irish civil war from the National Library’s collections. Alison Martin is a writer and historian from Belfast. Her research focuses on the Irish revolutionary period (1916-1923) and this talk is based on...
Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in tandem with the new state in 1922. Highlighting the men and women of the Army, Air Corps, Naval Service and Reserve, Eoin Kinsella’s recent study offers the first complete...
Collaborating with the Digital Repository of Ireland, Dr. Martina Mullaney and Dr. Tina Kinsella of the Feminist Art Making Histories Project (FAMH) will deliver a talk about the recording, curating, and archiving of oral histories and associated ephemera of feminist artists in Ireland and the UK from the 1970s. The data FAHM is collecting has,...
Come see the beautiful early eighteenth-century of Edward Worth (1676-1733), a Dublin physician who bequeathed a magnificent collection of books to Dr Steevens' Hospital. Tours at noon on each Open Day will include the ‘Librarian’s Choice’. Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout the festival. 26 and 27 September; 3, 4, 10 and 11 October Tour times 11:00...
When Seamus Heaney began writing poetry in the 1960s, Ireland was moving into the modern era, but it was to memories of growing up on a small rural farm in the 1940s that Heaney turned to for poetic inspiration. The pictures he paints for us in his poetry give us a window into a lost...
This photographic exhibition about the recent excavations in St Canice's abbey and churchyard will open on Tuesday 26 September and run for the remainder of the festival. It will be open to the public during library opening hours: Tuesday 26 September – Saturday 14 October A 15-min talk on the St. Canice’s Photographic Exhibition by...
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 Republican Plot and the final resting place of Michael Collins. From poets and presidents, singers and suffragettes, the ordinary and the extraordinary - the stories...
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 Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
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 the War of Independence? Join Cathy Scuffil, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, as she goes back in time and sets the scene for this...