Join author Marita Conlon-McKenna for this children’s event at Pearse Street Library. Marita has written several acclaimed books for children but is perhaps best known for her famine trilogy Under the Hawthorne Tree, Wildflower Girl and Fields of Home. Marita will be chatting about her writing work and her love of history. She will be...
John O’Brien, author of Securing the Irish State: A century of policing 1922 – 2022, outlines the evolution of An Garda Síochána and how this new and unarmed police force was established in the midst of a bloody civil war. Note: This event will also be available online post-festival. To book, please click here.
**Event CANCELLED due to unforseen circumstances** In 2013, ANU Productions presented 'Living the Lockout' at 14 Henrietta Street. For many, this was a first engagement with the museum space. Since then, ANU Productions have been a central force in the Decade of Centenaries in Dublin. Louise Lowe from ANU will discuss all of this with...
**Booked out** Kathryn Milligan, author of ‘Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Visualising a Changing City’, will discuss the work of artist Harry Kernoff. Born in London on 9 January 1900, Harry Aaron Kernoff was a prolific figure in twentieth century Irish art. Well regarded for his portraiture and landscape painting, Kernoff often focused on the depiction of...
**Booked out** Lecture by Dr Charles E. Nelson (Associate Editor, Archives of Natural History): ‘Irish gardening books, 1700–2000’. This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture. Note: Limited spaces, please book a seat. Booking: Email info@edwardworthlibrary.ie.
**Waitlist only** An exploration of attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth-century Dublin by Francis Thackaberry. The citizens of prosperous Georgian Dublin associated poverty with idleness, disease and moral decay and sought ways to prevent ‘foreign’ vagrants from ‘infesting’ the city. One response was to found Dublin’s first tax-funded workhouse in James's Street in 1703....
As founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey built one of the largest pan-Africanist organisations in history. The Jamaican-born activist mobilised millions in arguing for the establishment of an independent Black nation – a call that gained global traction after World War I. Like anti-colonial nationalists in Asia and Africa, Garvey took...
Constáblaí Éireannacha de chuid CRÉ ag gabhadh Sasanach as Gaeilge a labhairt, Giúdaigh Bhaile Átha Cliath agus Protastúnaigh Bhéal Feirste ag foghlaim Gaeilge, agus an Eaglais Chaitliceach ag diúltú an Ghaeilge a mhúineadh i scoileanna. Faigh amach an stair rúnda faoi na dearcthaí casta i leith na Gaeilge le linn réabhlóid na hÉireann. Sa gcaint...
Dr Cormac Moore, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, will give a talk on "House for Heroes" on the historic housing scheme in Killester for the First World War veterans in 1923. Click here to book.
It takes time to build a literary tradition. In Dublin: A Writer’s City, author Chris Morash sets out to produce a literary map of the city, area by area, looking at the ways in which knowing the literary heritage of our own neighbourhoods enriches our experience of living in the city. In this talk, he’ll...
Join South Dublin County Council Historian in Residence Liz Gillis as she explores the status of women in Ireland in the 19th century and the women who dared to dream of change. Click here to book.
Museums and exhibitions are usually experienced as places of truth, places we visit to gain knowledge about the past or to come to terms with difficult heritage. But how are sensitive materials, such as hospital archives, patients’ belongings, or medical instruments, selected and tactfully displayed? What decisions lie behind the choice of objects exhibited, the...
Join NLI curator, Elizabeth Kirwan for this overview of the National Library’s photographic collections. As Ireland’s capital city, Dublin witnessed many aspects of the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923. This talk will highlight a selection of original photographs of Dublin taken during 1922-1923 from the NLI’s historic collections. These photographs reflect a turbulent and bitter period...
To mark the publication of a new Conservation Management Plan, Christ Church will host a series of talks discussing the past, present and future of this iconic Dublin building. Tuesday 26 September, 13:10-14:10 Frank Keohane – An Introduction to conserving Christ Church Linzi Simpson – Excavating the Four Courts at Christ Church Tuesday 3 October,...
The RDS Library & Archives will host this event in the RDS Library. The RDS Drawing Schools were founded in 1749 and would eventually go on to become the National College of Art and Design. This event will consist of an illustrated talk from the RDS Archivist and Curator that will explore the history of...
The League of Ireland is commonly seen as a development league, one whose best players are signed at an early age, usually by larger, wealthier clubs from Britain, following a pattern established more than a century ago. But in this set of four case studies from the 1920s through to the twenty-first century another narrative...
Dr Bernard Kelly discusses the unique situation caused by deserters from the British military who either fled or found themselves in Ireland between 1922 and 1932, and how the Free State effectively became a safe haven for them. Booking: Call Rush Library at 01 870 8414 or email rushlibrary@fingal.ie.
If we think of Dublin like the cross-section of a great tree, with rings spreading outwards, the area around St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Dublin Castle is the heartwood, the medieval core. In Dublin: A Writer’s City, author Chris Morash sets out to produce a literary map of the city, area by area, looking at the...
