Jim Lockhart and Barry Devlin in conversation with Doireann Ní Bhriain 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Horslips seminal album ‘The Táin’. Based on the Irish saga Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), part of the Ulster Cycle of heroic tales, it tells of the war caused by Queen Maeve’s plotting to steal...
**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...
**Booked out** Tour of the old British military cemetery at Blackhorse Avenue, by the Phoenix Park. Through the cemetery we will see the span of the British Empire and the Irish involvement in it, from the Indian wars to the Boer War to the First and Second World Wars. There is a special emphasis on...
Come celebrate the Dublin Festival of History at Dublinia and join a special interactive family tour. Try on a Viking costume, and even get a chance to hold a Viking sword or shield! Visit the Medieval Fair and learn all about cures for diseases long ago. Take a stroll down a medieval street, pop into...
Panel discussion with Cormac Moore, Diarmaid Ferriter and Síobhra Aiken The Land Border between Northern and Southern Ireland was originally intended as an administrative boundary between two devolved parts of the United Kingdom. By the end of 1922 it marked the border between the UK and the new “Irish Free State”. In this event, Dublin...
Marking Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations, the National Archives, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Royal Irish Academy, has created an exhibition featuring records from its collections relating to Ireland’s membership of the League. The exhibition features official documents, photographs, recollections, letters and ephemera and charts the exciting early...
**Waitlist only** Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated Bad Bridget podcast, join Anna Carey to discuss the Bad Bridget project. Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Bad Bridget explores the remarkable lives of some Irish emigrant women. This is an in-person...
Dan Stone in conversation with Robert Gerwarth. The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialised and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone reveals how the idea of ‘industrial murder’ is incomplete: many were...
Learn drawing techniques, including line drawing, shading, perspective, and decoration during these relaxed and informal sessions with Roxana Manouchehri. This workshop will focus on drawing historical costumes inspired by the Chester Beatty collections. Materials are provided but please feel free to bring your favourites. Suitable for adults and teens. No booking required.
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’...
Join us for a talk on the the events of this momentous year in Rathfarnham, where we will be sketching out the background of the owners of Rathfarnham Castle at the time and their involvement, before placing the events in the locality within the Dublin and Leinster context. Booking: Call (01) 493 9462 or email...
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’...
In her latest book, Mary Beard focuses on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not the usual chronological account of Roman rulers: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power...
Conradh na Gaeilge ag léiriú Painéal de thriúr + óstach 120 bliain ó ceapadh an Baile Átha Cliathach Pádraig Mac Piarais mar Eagarthóir ar An Claidheamh Soluis, nuachtán Chonradh na Gaeilge, óstálfaidh Conradh na Gaeilge, le tacaíocht ón Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, pléphleainéal ar obair an Phiarsaigh mar iriseoir, scríbhneoir, agus...
100 bliain tar éis deireadh Chogadh na gCarad, pléfear na dúshláin agus na deacrachtaí a bhí ag pobal na Gaeilge agus na heagraíochtaí athbheochana sna 1920í. An raibh ról ann fós do Chonradh na Gaeilge? Cén tionchar a bhí ag bunú na stáit nua agus Cogadh na gCarad ar chúrsaí chultúir agus teanga in Éirinn?...
Mark Jones in conversation with Jennifer Wellington. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium militarily occupied Germany’s economic heartland, the Ruhr, triggering a series of crises that almost spiralled out of control. Hyperinflation plunged millions into poverty and Hitler’s populism ascended to national prominence. In...
A talk by Katherine Pangonis. Of the many cities that dot the Mediterranean coastline, Tyre, Carthage, Syracuse, Ravenna and Antioch are among the oldest and most intriguing. All are beautifully situated, and for history and cultural riches they are rivalled only by their sister cities of Rome, Istanbul and Jerusalem. Yet their fates have been...
**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...
