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With their drums and their guns: Irish soldiers and their music in the American Civil War
About 200,000 Irishmen fought in the American Civil War, 1860-64, most of them in the Union Army. Listen to their stories and songs with Brendan MacQuaile. Brendan is a classically trained baritone who has performed widely in Ireland and abroad. He has written and performed about Irish soldiers in the First World War. Booking is …
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The USSR through Irish eyes: Irish Republican women and the Soviet Union
At the beginning of the 1930s several boats left Dublin bound for Leningrad, populated with some of Ireland’s best known women radicals such as Helena Molony, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and the veteran suffragette Charlotte Despard. What brought them to Russia and how did it effect them? This lecture makes use of new material from archives in …
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Find out more »Military Archives and the 1916 Rising
Commandant Stephen Mac Eoin, Irish Defence Forces Director of the Military Archives will discuss collections relating to the 1916 Rising in the Military Archives including the various genealogical sources available with reference to the Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan, Na Fianna Éireann and Dublin Brigade Activity Reports. Booking is required. Please contact Coolock library at +353 …
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