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Neglected reputations: The forgotten Yeats sisters, Susan and Elizabeth.

Dublin City Library & Archive Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin, Dublin

This talk by Eunan McKinney, Project Director of The Yeats Sisters Commemoration Project, will explore the neglected creative and entrepreneurial reputations of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats. For almost 50 years in the first half of the 20th century, the Yeats’ sisters made a lasting contribution to the cultural identity of an emerging new state, the...

Book Cultures and Surgical Training in Early Modern London.

Dr Elaine Leong (University College London) will give a lecture on ‘Book Cultures and Surgical Training in Early Modern London’. This is the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History. Note: Limited spaces. To book, email info@edwardworthlibrary.ie

Histories and Mysteries of Book Publishing

Joly Theatre National Library of Ireland 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Dublin

Instead of studying the book as an individual author's work, book historians pay attention to its architecture, and processes of book production. They focus on publication contexts that might impact the meaning contained in the book. Dr Lucy Collins, Professor Porscha Fermanis, Eoin McCarney, and Dr Tapasya Narang will reflect on the importance of holding,...

Shackleton’s 1909 Dublin lecture and the Lady Dudley nurses

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ONLINE TALK Following the return of his Antarctic expedition (1907-1909) aboard SY 'Nimrod', Ernest Shackleton toured Europe delivering lectures to the peoples and learned societies of the great cities. He returned to his native Ireland in December, 1909, and gave a lecture in Dublin to raise funds for the Lady Dudley nurses scheme. This talk...

T. K. Whitaker: Irishman of the 20th Century

Central Bank of Ireland New Wapping Street North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Dublin

The long life enjoyed by Dr. T.K. Whitaker parallels the history of the modern Irish state in whose economic, financial, social, constitutional, educational, political and cultural evolution he played a pivotal role. Whitaker’s inspirational blueprint for the regeneration of the Irish economy in the 1960s, guiding Ireland’s path to membership of such bodies as the...

A Bridge Too Far – Cornelius Ryan with Philip Lecane

Kevin Street Library 18 Lower Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Dublin

Cornelius Ryan died in November 1974, aged 54. Once a world famous best-selling author, he is today virtually forgotten. Born in Heytesbury Street, educated in Synge Street, altar boy in...

Drumcondra’s Story Through Maps

Drumcondra Library Millmount Avenue Drumcondra, Dublin, Dublin

**Apologies, registration full** In this illustrated talk, Ruth McManus will take us on a journey charting the evolution of Drumcondra through time. Drawing on historic maps and images we will...

Down by the River Poddle

Ballyfermot Library Ballyfermot Road Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, Dublin

The secrets the river Poddle holds are key to understanding the basic foundations of the City of Dublin. This river of many names, mostly flowing underground, out of sight and...

The IRA War on Entertainments

Rush Library Chapel Green, Rush, Dublin

In 1923 the anti-Treaty IRA, in response to the ongoing execution of their prisoners, declared a ban on public entertainments including sports, theatre and cinema during a period of 'national...

The Dublin/Monaghan Bombings – Fifty Years On

Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

A talk looking back, 50 years on, on the worst day for fatalities of the Troubles, 17 May 1974, when three bombs exploded in Dublin City Centre and one in...

The Battle of Cabra Baths and other 20th century histories

Cabra Library Navan Rd, Dublin 7, Dublin

**Apologies, registration full** Dublin City Historian in Residence, Mary Muldowney will talk about the outdoor Cabra Baths that was opened by the City Council in the 1940s and other fascinating...

Football in Dublin: The makings of the people’s game

The Orchard Community Centre Cherry Orchard Grove, Cherry Orchard, Dublin 10

The Library in the Community will host a talk by Bohemian FC's club historian and independent sports historian Gerard Farrell. Initially emerging as a minority pursuit in the city's elite...

Kate Mosse – Map of Bones

St Ann's Church Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Dublin

Historical novelist Kate Mosse will discuss Map of Bones the 4th and final novel in her Joubert Family Chronicles. Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from...

A City of Voices, How Dublin 4 Shaped Irish Radio

Ringsend & Irishtown Community Centre Thorncastle Street, Dublin, Dublin

For the first time, a lecture on the role of Dublin 4 in the history of Irish radio broadcasting. Radio historian and chairperson of the Ringsend and District Historical Society,...

A Dublin Day – Monday July 6th 1925

Cabra Parkside Community Sports Centre John Paul II Park Ratoath Road, Cabra, Dublin 7, Dublin

The Library in the Community section will host a talk by James Scannell, current President of the Old Dublin Society. On July 6th 1925, the Dublin United Tramways Company launched...

The port of Dublin in time of famine

The Substation Alexandra Road, Dublin, Dublin

Join David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin Fellow Emeritus) for an enlightening lecture on the Port of Dublin during the famines of 1740-41 and 1846-48. Explore how maritime trade and port...

Bodysnatchers, Surgeons and Insurgents: the History of RCSI

Albert Lecture Theatre Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 123 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Dublin

In 1784, a small group of Irish surgeons broke ranks with the Guild of Barber-Surgeons to form the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Ever since, RCSI has been at...

25th Medieval Dublin Symposium

Neill Hoey lecture theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Trinity College Dublin Neill Hoey lecture theatre Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Dublin

The 25th Medieval Dublin symposium, organised by the Friends of Medieval Dublin with support from the Department of History of Trinity College Dublin, will showcase new research in the history...