Week of Events
New Perspectives on the Irish Civil War
New Perspectives on the Irish Civil War
**Apologies, registration full** This event will centre on the new Atlas of the Irish Civil War, the latest volume in the award-winning Atlas Series. It presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922–3). Featuring contributions from over ninety leading scholars from a range of disciplines, this...
The Last Disco: The Story of the Stardust Tragedy
The Last Disco: The Story of the Stardust Tragedy
In conversation with authors and journalists Christine Bohan, Sean Murray and Nicky Ryan. A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine’s Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out...
The Boundary Commission
The Boundary Commission
The Irish Boundary Commission was set up to determine the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It met for the first time on 6 November 1924. Its chairman was Mr Justice Richard Feetham, a judge of the South African Supreme Court; he was assisted by two Commissioners, Eoin MacNeill, the Irish Free...
Niall McCullough: Architect and Historian
Niall McCullough: Architect and Historian
When Niall McCullough died in 2021, Ireland lost not just one of its pre-eminent architects but also one of the great historians of Dublin. His fascination and love of the city was exemplified in two of his books, Dublin: An Urban History and Dublin - Creation, Occupation, Destruction. This historical work shares the care, study...
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
Kate Summerscale London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double...
Interwar Ireland: State-Building and Peace-Making
Interwar Ireland: State-Building and Peace-Making
**Apologies, registration full** The Irish Research Council (IRC) will showcase some of the most exciting research in Ireland today. IRC-supported researchers will share insights on their latest projects and join...
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
**Apologies, registration full** In 1904, Roger Casement became internationally celebrated for unearthing the grotesque violence of the Belgian Congo. Soon after, he won even greater renown and a knighthood for...
From Prejudice to Punk to Pride
From Prejudice to Punk to Pride
As former lead singer with Dublin punk band Chant! Chant! Chant! and founding member of Muted Cupid, Ireland's first LGBT theatre group, Eoin Freeney reflects on the post-punk era of...
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and...
Paula Meehan in Conversation
Paula Meehan in Conversation
**Apologies, registration full** Paula Meehan is one of Ireland's best-known contemporary poets. In this discussion with historian Donal Fallon, she will read and discuss a number of recent works with...
Land Is All That Matters
Land Is All That Matters
**Apologies, registration full** In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well....
Songs of History
Songs of History
Songs have told the story of Ireland and Irish history for centuries. In this special event, musicians and singers Mike Hanrahan and Eleanor Shanley, working with historian Liz Gillis will...
The Trouble with Recent History
The Trouble with Recent History
**Apologies, registrations full** The last 50 years in Ireland present a very turbulent and troubled history. The country has seen terrible violence in Northern Ireland, the collapse of the economy...
The outbreak of the Troubles, 1969-73: ‘Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume fourteen’
The outbreak of the Troubles, 1969-73: ‘Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume fourteen’
Since 1998 the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series has been publishing archival documents on Ireland's foreign relations since 1919, to make them more accessible. Now, with the fourteenth...
Queer Femininities of the late 19th and 20th Century Ireland
Queer Femininities of the late 19th and 20th Century Ireland
Mary McAuliffe will lead discussion on this nascent and very vibrant area of study in the histories of Irish sexualities. She’ll be talking about Irish female revolutionaries and same-sex relationships....
Gaeil agus Géibheann agus Éamonn Mac Thomáis (1927-2002)
Gaeil agus Géibheann agus Éamonn Mac Thomáis (1927-2002)
Nótáil gur eachtra dhá pháirt é seo a bheidh 90 nóiméad in fhad. Gaeil agus Géibheann Eoghan Mac Cormaic Ina leabhar nua fhoilsithe Gaeil agus Géibheann tharraing Eoghan Mac Cormaic...
Heroines of the Wars: Talk by Clare Mulley and Rick Stroud
Heroines of the Wars: Talk by Clare Mulley and Rick Stroud
Clare Mulley tells the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. She was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw...
The Irish in the Resistance
The Irish in the Resistance
**Apologies, registration full** Clodagh Finn and John Morgan are co-authors of The Irish in the Resistance, a new history which tells some of the untold stories of the ordinary heroes...
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
Sam Leith and Sarah Carey Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? Maybe you tumbled down a rabbit hole, flew out of your bedroom...