Take a tour of the largest terraced house on Merrion Square, learn about its history, see the latest exhibitions and discover the work of the Irish Architectural Archive. No booking...
Join Francis Thackaberry as he talks about the coming of the Great Southern and Western Railway to Inchicore. This event was often seen as the beginning of the transformation of...
Patrick Quigley will explore how Stanislaw (Stasko) Markiewicz, son of Casimir and stepson of Countess Markievicz, stayed in Dublin at three critical stages of his life. He had a happy...
**Apologies, registration full** Join Clark Brydon, the Head of the Cathedral’s Education Department, for a rare and unique tour, where you will get to see some parts of this historic...
Tailte Éireann is the state body with responsibility for the property registration system, property valuation service, and national mapping and surveying infrastructure for the State. Tailte Éireann is custodian of...
The Irish State came into existence on 6 December 1922. At this time the creation of a new system of courts remained unfinished business. In January 1923 a Judiciary Committee was appointed to advise the Irish government on the establishment of a new court system. Its report was followed by the enactment of the Courts...
Dr Paul G. Smith (Independent Scholar and former Bríd McGrath Research Fellow) will present a lecture on 'Forfeited estates of 1688 in Ireland: an account of the late proprietors and...
**Apologies, registration full** Visit the very beating heart of modern Ireland with a tour of Busáras, Ireland’s first purpose-built bus station officially opened on 19 October 1953. Designed by renowned...
From the award-winning filmmakers of 406 Days – The Debenhams Picket Line comes the story of the Dublin Monaghan Bombings. On the 17th May 1974 three no warning bombs detonated...
The story of Henrietta Street is the story not only of architectural and political history, but the arts. When campaigner Uinseann MacEoin saved a number of Henrietta Street homes in the 1960s and ‘70s, it began a process of revitalisation that drew artists to the street. Mick O’Dea, past president of the Royal Hibernian Academy,...
Join the Gallery's Irish Sign Language tour guides for a look at highlights from the Gallery’s An Túr Gloine exhibition as well as key stained glass works from the permanent...
ONLINE TALK Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city’s many qualities are all too frequently overlooked,...
This lecture marks the centenary of the closure of the Freeman’s Journal which appeared for the last time on 19 December 1924. Founded in 1763 as the organ of the so-called ‘patriot’ opposition in the Irish parliament, it was the principal Irish nationalist daily paper in the nineteenth century. For 50 years, from 1841 to...
Approximately 210,000 Irishmen volunteered for the British Forces between 1914 and 1918; of these, around 35,000 died, with over 6,000 of these from Dublin. This talk will tell the story...
In the mid-1940s Marlborough House was set up by the Department of Education as a place of detention for young boys. It was the only centre of its type managed...
Dublin City Historian in Residence, Elizabeth Kehoe will be giving a talk about O’Connell Street based on people's memories and historical records so this will be an eclectic mix about...
Let historian Juliana Adelman and geographer Ann Marie Durkan show you a different side to Dublin as they tell stories of Dublin’s animal past. Covering approximately 100 years of history,...
**Apologies, registration full** Join Dublin City Historian in Residence, Katie Blackwood, for an illustrated talk on the history of Dublin cinemas that takes the audience through the early days of makeshift venues, the golden age of cinema building, and right up to the emergence of the multiplexes of the 1990s. Incorporating architecture, censorship, queuing, courting...
