All Day

Hidden Histories Self-Guided Treasure Hunt for Children

Presented by Creative Residency @ Richmond Barracks. Are your children curious about the architecture and history of Dublin's buildings, streets and bridges? If so, and if they like to be...

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Ongoing

O, To have a little house

Solo Exhibition by Michelle Malone Curated by Sheena Barrett This first major solo show by recent graduate Michelle Malone will look to consider ideas of embodied identity, social/council housing, including...

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Once Upon a Street

Pearse Street Library hosts a performance/reading by Esther Raquel Minsky of a text written by novelist and lecturer Denis Kehoe. It explores the lives of two Dublin women - artist...

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Sarah Cecilia Harrison: Suffragist, Artist and Councilor

Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life, becoming the first female elected...

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Patrick O’Connell’s Ireland career

In recent years, the Drumcondra-born footballer and football manager Patrick O'Connell (1887-1959) has received increased recognition for his sporting achievements. This talk will look at O'Connell's playing career, focusing particularly...

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The Tenters: A Response to Dublin’s Housing Crisis

In the early twentieth century, Dublin’s chronic housing conditions were described as the worst within the British Empire. The collapse of the Church Street tenement in 1913 with fatal consequences...

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