**Apologies, registration full** Join Warren Farrell, Donal Fallon and the Kavanagh family for a talk exploring the history of Glasnevin Cemetery and its relationship with its neighbour ‘The Gravediggers’ pub...
The Irish Polish Society presents a talk by distinguished historian, Gabriel Doherty, University College Cork, on a refugee crisis in Ireland,1949-51. On 30 September 1949, the Victory, a WWII ship,...
2024 marks the centenary of the death of Dublin born composer, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. With a strong association with Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Stanford was one of the most significant...
The Edward Worth Library will be holding a number of Open Days during Dublin Festival of History. Come see our beautiful early eighteenth-century Library and enjoy our latest exhibition: 'The...
Pearse Lyons Distillery invites you to explore the rich history and heritage surrounding the former St. James Church, and how it came to be a distillery. Discover the stories of...
Join 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...
ONLINE 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...
Join 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...
Spenser’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 Edward Worth Library will be holding a number of Open Days during Dublin Festival of History. Come see our beautiful early eighteenth-century Library and enjoy our latest exhibition: 'The...
Juliana 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...
ONLINE 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...
Angela 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...
Dublin 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...
In 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...
Emerging 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...
The 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...
In 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...
