O, To have a little house
Solo Exhibition by Michelle Malone Curated by Sheena Barrett This first major solo show by recent graduate Michelle Malone will look to consider ideas of embodied identity, social/council housing, including...
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Hidden Histories Self-Guided Treasure Hunt for Children
Presented by Creative Residency @ Richmond Barracks. Are your children curious about the architecture and history of Dublin's buildings, streets and bridges? If so, and if they like to be...
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The Van Gogh Sisters (Big Weekend)
In this thoughtful and unprecedented biographical history, Willem-Jan Verlinden delves into previously unpublished correspondence in the Van Gogh family archives to bring Vincent’s three sisters out from their brother’s shadow, poignantly portraying their dreams, disappointments and grief....
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Children’s History Workshop: Dublin’s Secret Symbols
Donaghmede Library is delighted to host a children’s history workshop for children aged 9-12, with Dervilia Roche, Dublin’s first Historian-in-Residence for Children. In this workshop children can explore Dublin’s past, through hidden animals,...
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Politics, Prisoners & Protests – 1922 (Big Weekend)
(C) This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the National Museum of Ireland Mná100 in collaboration with Dublin City Historian-in-Residence Programme Historian for the Commemorations Unit and Curator of...
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World (Big Weekend)
On Every Tide is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long engagement with the complexities of Irish identity,...
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Gender Identity during Ireland’s Revolutionary Period: IRC-supported research
The Irish Research Council (IRC) is hosting an event as part of the Dublin Festival of History 2022 that will showcase some of the most exciting research in Ireland today....
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Children’s History Workshop: Dublin’s Secret Symbols
Ballyfermot Library is delighted to host a children’s history workshop for children aged 9-12, with Dervilia Roche, Dublin’s first Historian-in-Residence for Children. In this workshop children can explore Dublin’s past, through hidden animals,...
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries How Women (Also) Built the World (Big Weekend)
A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unheard...
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Sister Against Sister: Women and the Irish civil war (Big Weekend)
Panel: Dr Leeann Lane (DCU); Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD); Dr Margaret Ward (QUB) and moderated by Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD). The civil war in Ireland was not only ‘brother against brother’. Cumann...
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The Celts: A Sceptical History (Big Weekend)
The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages...
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Guided Tour of Viking and Medieval Dublin – BOOKED OUT
Dublinia, located at the heart of Viking and Medieval Dublin, is a step back in time and a journey through the city as it was back then. Experience what life...
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Guardians of the Peace with Conor Brady (Big Weekend)
Guardians of the Peace is a political history of the Irish police force, An Garda Síochana, from its foundation at the birth of the Irish State, through the Irish...
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The World Turned Upside Down: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the British Army and the Cause of Irish Freedom (Big Weekend)
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the British Army, and the battle for Irish Freedom. This illustrated talk begins at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, where Lord Edward Fitzgerald fought in...
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 (Big Weekend)
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the...
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The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale (Big Weekend)
The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA. She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen...
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The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (Big Weekend)
A razor-sharp examination of Gone with the Wind, the emergence of ‘the Lost Cause’, and how they have influenced American culture – from race riots to Trump. Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel became an overnight bestseller...
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Kathleen Clarke: Dublin’s First Female Lord Mayor
2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Kathleen Clarke. The first female Lord Mayor of the city, Clarke was a leading figure in Cumann na mBan and a...
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