**Booked out** All free festival tours on the Old Liffey Ferry have now booked out, however the Old Liffey Ferry would like to offer a 25% discount code on their regular tickets for anyone who would like to book a tour outside of the festival. Please visit https://oldliffeyferry.com/ and enter the code historyfestival23 to avail of...
In this talk, Dr Peter Rigney will speak on conflict on the Irish railway network throughout the 1916 to 1923 period, including industrial relations disputes involving railway workers, the labour movement, and the employers. Inchicore railway works played a key role throughout this revolutionary period. Peter is editor of Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour...
To celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Alliance Française network, Alliance Française Dublin is pleased to organise a special event focused on the beautiful heritage building: 1 Kildare Street, once described as having one of the finest interiors of nineteenth century Dublin. The event will start with a presentation of the building, followed by a...
Cuairt ar theach stairiúil le Mícheál Mac Donncha, iar-Ardmhéara na Cathrach, agus údar an leabhair ‘The Mansion House and the Irish Revolution’. B’áit lárnach é seo sna himeachtaí ó 1912 go 1923. A visit to the historic house with Mícheál Mac Donncha, former Lord Mayor of the City, and author of the book ‘The Mansion...
To celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Alliance Française network, Alliance Française Dublin is pleased to organise a special event focused on the beautiful heritage building: 1 Kildare Street, once described as having one of the finest interiors of nineteenth century Dublin. The event will start with a presentation of the building, followed by a...
Join Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche for a free, interactive workshop for children aged 9 - 12. Find out what life was like in Medieval Dublin, discover the Medieval buildings that still stand in the city today, and try some Medieval games. Note: Children aged 9-12 must be accompanied by parents or...
Join us at the National Gallery of Ireland for a free guided Irish Sign Language tour exploring some Irish History in the Gallery’s permanent collection. This selection of artworks explores pivotal points in Ireland’s and Dublin’s history. Artists documented important moments in history with portraits of key figures and accurate depictions or artistic interpretations of...
Through Dublin Festival of History, join tour guides at the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History at Collins Barracks on a variety of engaging family tours exploring the Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
Bí linn ar an turas seo i nGaeilge ag féachaint ar bhuaicphointí an bhailiúcháin. Tá an turas saor in aisce agus ní gá áit a chur in áirithe. Tar linn ar thuras trí Ghaeilge ag breathnú ar bhuaicphointí an bhailiúcháin.
**Booked out** All free festival tours on the Old Liffey Ferry have now booked out, however the Old Liffey Ferry would like to offer a 25% discount code on their regular tickets for anyone who would like to book a tour outside of the festival. Please visit https://oldliffeyferry.com/ and enter the code historyfestival23 to avail of...
Through Dublin Festival of History, join tour guides at the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History at Collins Barracks on a variety of engaging family tours exploring the Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
Michael Healy was raised in a Dublin tenement and through a combination of innate talent, hard work and lucky breaks he pulled himself out of grinding poverty. Ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, he established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in the exacting craft of stained glass and worked at...
‘Four Wedding Dresses and a Funeral Coat’ will combine dramatic scenes with dance and music in Richmond Barracks to explore how the lives of Kitty Kiernan and her sisters became interwoven with some of Ireland’s most iconic leaders and the terrible losses they endured, not only of their menfolk but of their family home, which...
Made by 12 people in Dublin with artists Claire Halpin and Colm Keegan. This exhibition of personal objects, stories and poems asks what do we choose to remember, and why? The Archive Within Us is an exhibition of personal histories, made by a group of people in Dublin in collaboration with visual artist Claire Halpin...
Made by 12 people in Dublin with artists Claire Halpin and Colm Keegan. This exhibition of personal objects, stories and poems asks what do we choose to remember, and why? The Archive Within Us is an exhibition of personal histories, made by a group of people in Dublin in collaboration with visual artist Claire Halpin...
Made by 12 people in Dublin with artists Claire Halpin and Colm Keegan. This exhibition of personal objects, stories and poems asks what do we choose to remember, and why? The Archive Within Us is an exhibition of personal histories, made by a group of people in Dublin in collaboration with visual artist Claire Halpin...
In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two vital narratives that underpin the extraordinary but troubled events of 1917. One puts the blame squarely on Tsar Nicholas...
Captain Hermann Goertz parachuted into Ireland during the summer of 1940 with his mission to act as a liaison officer with the IRA and to enlist their assistance during a potential German invasion of Britain. During his period in Ireland, until his arrest in November 1941, he stayed in a number of safe houses including...