Series of events in Ballybough and North Strand
The Ballybough and North Strand area of Dublin is a vibrant community rich in history. We are showcasing a small series of free events for all in the community. Sean...
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Talks
Ongoing
Two Irish Women Who Moved Heaven and Earth for India’s Independence
OnlineONLINE TALK To illustrate Ireland and India’s connection, this talk by Jawhar Sircar will focus on the contributions of two Irish women – Margaret Elizabeth Noble who later adopted the...
All in Good Time: the fascinating history of Dublin’s public clocks
Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2Join Adrian Le Harivel, former Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, for this talk. He became intrigued about this important aspect of streetscape, while walking the city and researching...
A New Dawn in Irish Theatre: The Journey from Mountjoy to the Somme
14 Henrietta Street Dublin 1Join Irish playwright Jimmy Murphy for this talk. After O’Casey’s exile from Ireland and the Abbey, Irish theatre entered a phase of mildly amusing, middle class comedies that endured until...
Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland (1596): Re-Appraised
Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2Spenser’s View has, for centuries, been treated variously as a trove of prejudiced antiquarian lore useful for disparaging Irish people at moments of crisis, and as a store house of...
The Grateful Water: Writing Nineteenth-Century Dublin in Fiction
14 Henrietta Street Dublin 1Juliana Adelman is a historian interested in science, medicine and the environment, especially in nineteenth-century Ireland. Now, she is the author of The Grateful Water, a novel set in1866. When...
The Disappeared: Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998
OnlineONLINE TALK Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc’s recent study, the first of its kind, uncovers the extent to which ‘forced disappearances’ were part of the violent political conflicts that blighted Ireland...
Irish Women in Russia in the age of the Tsars
Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2Angela Byrne explores the rich and varied connections between Ireland and Russia in the pre-revolutionary period, focusing on the Irish women who went in search of adventure or employment, for...
The 1924 Tailteann Games
Rathmines Library 157 Rathmines Road Lwr Rathmines, DublinThe Tailteann Games, a sporting and cultural festival, were re-imagined and modernised from the ancient games of the same name and held for the first time in 1924 as Ireland's...
Building New Ireland: First Decade of the Irish Free State
Ballyroan Library Orchardstown Avenue, RathfarnhamEmerging from centuries of oppression and a bitter civil war, the government of the Irish Free State faced huge challenges to ensure democracy would succeed and Ireland would take her...
From Sackville to O’Connell
Phibsboro Library Phibsboro Library Blacquiere Bridge, PhibsboroDublin City Historian in Residence Elizabeth Kehoe will give a talk about O'Connell Street based on people's memories and historical records, so this will be an eclectic mix about the...
Service Terminated: The Last Tram from Dartry
Terenure Library Templeogue Road, Terenure, Dublin 6W, DublinIn 1937 the Dublin United Tramways Company (1896) embarked on a programme of replacing its trams with buses but the onset of the 'Emergency' paused this. By 1948 CIÉ had...
FAI Amateur XI vs Gold Coast August 1951
Mono’s Bar Dalymount Park Phibsboro, Dublin 7In August 1951, the Gold Coast National football team came to Ireland, playing matches in Belfast and Dublin. The match in Dublin took place in Dalymount Park on Wednesday, 22nd...