To celebrate Dublin Festival of History, the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology will be hosting a selection of tours where you can discover and engage with the Museum’s collection. On our Highlights Tour (10.30 and 15.30), see what life was like in Ireland from the Stone Age to Early Medieval Ireland. Learn all about...
**Booked out** A walking tour of the veterans houses on Quarry Rd, Cabra built in 1920's specifically for soldiers from WW1 and their families. The houses were administered by the pioneering Sailors and Soldiers Trust an unusual North-South body that remained active after partition. The housing provided in Cabra was one of a number of...
Join Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children, Dervilia Roche, for a free, interactive workshop for children aged 9 – 12. Explore the history of Richmond Barracks in puzzle form and piece together a timeline of the building’s past. Note: Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout the workshop. Click here to book.
** Booked out** An OPW Farmleigh House Guide will present and explore Irish artist Michael Angelo Hayes’ Installation of the Prince of Wales as Knight of St. Patrick, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1868- an amazing painting in Farmleigh library depicting this famous occasion and the elite guests who attended the ceremony. Step back through...
Liz Gillis, Mary McAuliffe and Sinead McCoole in conversation with Margaret Ward. The Irish Government launched the Decade of Centenaries in 2012 to celebrate and re-examine the major historical events during the foundation of the Irish State. At the end of the decade this expert panel will discuss the changing nature of women’s representation during...
**Booked out** Helena Murphy is a tour guide of Dublin with Original Dublin. On this unique walking tour, she will explore the LGBTQ+ history of Dublin city centre, in a year that marks 30 years since the decriminilisation of homosexuality. Original Dublin is a local tour company formed in Dublin City in 2022. Meeting at...
The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, is pleased to present Get to the Point by Irish artist Brian Duggan. During the 1970s oil crisis, Ireland planned its first nuclear power station in an attempt to become ‘energy independent’. This project film is an examination of archival material and new footage from...
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’...
**Waitlist only** The Cosgrave administration officially asked renowned stained glass artist Harry Clarke to design a window as Ireland's present to the International Labour Office building in Geneva in 1927. The window was finished before Clarke died in January 1931, but it was never displayed. Join Dr John Gibney and Dr Roisin Kennedy in discussion...
Dublin's St James's Church and Graveyard were founded between 1189-92 and dedicated to the saint believed to be buried in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. A total of about 100,000 people were buried in St James's Graveyard before its closure in 1989, most of them Catholics. The graveyard is now owned by Dublin City Council...
A lecture on the remembrance of WW1 in Ireland 1919 and present day. Including the highs and lows of remembrance during the war of independence and civil war and the challenges the fledgling Irish Government faced with remembrance services in the 1920s and 30s. Who were the ex-service men and what challenges did they face?...
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’...
The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation. Between 1940 and 1943, a small group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and almost completely unknown - humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the Polish Ambassador, Aleksander Lados, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity...
Seaweed is a widely available and varied natural resource with different species used for many purposes, including food, toiletries, fertilisers, and other chemical applications. The seaweed industry is developing rapidly in the 21st century. This mirrors an explosion in the commercial trade in seaweed in the 19th century – primarily in kelp which was used...
**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...
Poet Dermot Bolger joins historian Donal Fallon to discuss recent poems dedicated to Grace Gifford Plunkett, Herbert Simms, Nuala O’Faolain and others. Bolger will read from his collection Other People's Lives, and discuss his career, from the days of Raven Arts Press to the present day. This is an in-person event. Click here to book.
In this event, Ellen Rowley and Carole Pollard will draw out the links between Dublin’s buildings and Dublin’s political, social, cultural and economic histories. By focusing on architecture as the central thread in the story of the city in formation, 1900–2000, both historians will discuss and illustrate the relationship between architecture, housing and people in...
This talk will discuss research from the recent volume Ireland and the Crusades (Four Courts Press, 2022) with particular focus on the central role played by Hugh de Lacy - the first earl of Ulster - in the crusade against the 'Cathar' heretics in Southern France in the early thirteenth century. By exploring the rich...
