Marking Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations, the National Archives, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Royal Irish Academy, has created an exhibition featuring records from its collections relating to Ireland’s membership of the League. The exhibition features official documents, photographs, recollections, letters and ephemera and charts the exciting early...
**Booked out** NO LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee of the Pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at...
Frank McDonough in conversation with Paul McGann. Established in 1918-19, in the wake of Germany's catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The...
In this event, Ellen Rowley and Carole Pollard will draw out the links between Dublin’s buildings and Dublin’s political, social, cultural and economic histories. By focusing on architecture as the central thread in the story of the city in formation, 1900–2000, both historians will discuss and illustrate the relationship between architecture, housing and people in...
Major turning points in Irish history and great shifts in societal attitudes are often associated with progress but can also be mired in violence. Here, historian and creator of the Irish History Podcast, Fin Dwyer looks at pivotal moments in Ireland’s past – separated by time but tied together by one common trait: murder. He...
Liz Gillis, Mary McAuliffe and Sinead McCoole in conversation with Margaret Ward. The Irish Government launched the Decade of Centenaries in 2012 to celebrate and re-examine the major historical events during the foundation of the Irish State. At the end of the decade this expert panel will discuss the changing nature of women’s representation during...
The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, is pleased to present Get to the Point by Irish artist Brian Duggan. During the 1970s oil crisis, Ireland planned its first nuclear power station in an attempt to become ‘energy independent’. This project film is an examination of archival material and new footage from...
**Booked out** Helena Murphy is a tour guide of Dublin with Original Dublin. On this unique walking tour, she will explore the LGBTQ+ history of Dublin city centre, in a year that marks 30 years since the decriminilisation of homosexuality. Original Dublin is a local tour company formed in Dublin City in 2022. Meeting at...
**Waitlist only** The Cosgrave administration officially asked renowned stained glass artist Harry Clarke to design a window as Ireland's present to the International Labour Office building in Geneva in 1927. The window was finished before Clarke died in January 1931, but it was never displayed. Join Dr John Gibney and Dr Roisin Kennedy in discussion...
The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation. Between 1940 and 1943, a small group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and almost completely unknown - humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the Polish Ambassador, Aleksander Lados, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity...
Poet Dermot Bolger joins historian Donal Fallon to discuss recent poems dedicated to Grace Gifford Plunkett, Herbert Simms, Nuala O’Faolain and others. Bolger will read from his collection Other People's Lives, and discuss his career, from the days of Raven Arts Press to the present day. This is an in-person event. Click here to book.
This talk will discuss research from the recent volume Ireland and the Crusades (Four Courts Press, 2022) with particular focus on the central role played by Hugh de Lacy - the first earl of Ulster - in the crusade against the 'Cathar' heretics in Southern France in the early thirteenth century. By exploring the rich...
Jim Lockhart and Barry Devlin in conversation with Doireann Ní Bhriain 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Horslips seminal album ‘The Táin’. Based on the Irish saga Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), part of the Ulster Cycle of heroic tales, it tells of the war caused by Queen Maeve’s plotting to steal...
A talk by Katherine Pangonis. Of the many cities that dot the Mediterranean coastline, Tyre, Carthage, Syracuse, Ravenna and Antioch are among the oldest and most intriguing. All are beautifully situated, and for history and cultural riches they are rivalled only by their sister cities of Rome, Istanbul and Jerusalem. Yet their fates have been...
Panel discussion with Cormac Moore, Diarmaid Ferriter and Síobhra Aiken The Land Border between Northern and Southern Ireland was originally intended as an administrative boundary between two devolved parts of the United Kingdom. By the end of 1922 it marked the border between the UK and the new “Irish Free State”. In this event, Dublin...
Dan Stone in conversation with Robert Gerwarth. The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialised and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone reveals how the idea of ‘industrial murder’ is incomplete: many were...
**Waitlist only** Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated Bad Bridget podcast, join Anna Carey to discuss the Bad Bridget project. Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Bad Bridget explores the remarkable lives of some Irish emigrant women. This is an in-person...
Conradh na Gaeilge ag léiriú Painéal de thriúr + óstach 120 bliain ó ceapadh an Baile Átha Cliathach Pádraig Mac Piarais mar Eagarthóir ar An Claidheamh Soluis, nuachtán Chonradh na Gaeilge, óstálfaidh Conradh na Gaeilge, le tacaíocht ón Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, pléphleainéal ar obair an Phiarsaigh mar iriseoir, scríbhneoir, agus...
In her latest book, Mary Beard focuses on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not the usual chronological account of Roman rulers: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power...
100 bliain tar éis deireadh Chogadh na gCarad, pléfear na dúshláin agus na deacrachtaí a bhí ag pobal na Gaeilge agus na heagraíochtaí athbheochana sna 1920í. An raibh ról ann fós do Chonradh na Gaeilge? Cén tionchar a bhí ag bunú na stáit nua agus Cogadh na gCarad ar chúrsaí chultúir agus teanga in Éirinn?...
Mark Jones in conversation with Jennifer Wellington. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium militarily occupied Germany’s economic heartland, the Ruhr, triggering a series of crises that almost spiralled out of control. Hyperinflation plunged millions into poverty and Hitler’s populism ascended to national prominence. In...