Events for 3 October, 2016
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2:00 pm
Richmond Barracks & Goldenbridge Cemetery Guided Tour – BOOKED OUT
*** Sorry - Booked Out*** Please contact Richmond Barracks for details of other tours and times. Monday 3rd October and Saturday 8th October at 2pm Step back in time to experience the mutli-layered history of Richmond Barracks. Visit the soldiers' gymnasium where insurgents were held after the 1916 Rising and where the leaders were court …
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History, Memory & The Archives: Sources for the Revolutionary period in Military Archives
With Commandant Stephen Mac Eoin, Irish Defence Forces Director of the Military Archives This will be a ticketed event on a first-come, first-served basis. See www.militaryarchives.ie for details Events are liable to change. To stay informed of any changes in the Festival programme, please sign up to our mailing list
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War brought to our very doors: Women and everyday life during the Easter Rising
Using diaries, letters and other primary documents, this lecture will look at life for non-combatant women during Easter week 1916. The picture shows Monica Roberts who kept a diary documenting the events of the week of the Rising. Fionnuala Walsh recently completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin on Irishwomen and the First World War. …
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Find out more »The school and the home: boarding schools in Dublin 1800-1860
This talk will examine what kind of education was on offer and what it was like to be a student at boarding school in the early nineteenth-century. What did students study and why? Mary Hatfield is a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar at Trinity College Dublin. Her work focuses on constructions of middle-class Irish childhood …
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Find out more »Pearl Harbour: Examining the ‘date which will live in infamy’ in its 75th anniversary year
The Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii in December 1941 caused thousands of casualties and brought the US into WWII the very next day. Cecelia Hartsell is a historian, specialising in American history and the Irish revolutionary period. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and is completing her Master’s degree in history …
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