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Exploring the archives: Create a historical comic with Clare Foley, workshop for teens

Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

Explore the collections of Dublin City Library & Archives to create your own historical comic! Clare Foley (illustrator of the recent historical comic Fear and Fever: 14 Days of Typhoid in Edwardian Dublin, published by Dublin City Council) will show you how to create your own comics using real historical sources through hands-on exercises in...

1974-2024: 50 years of Alliance Française at 1 Kildare Street

A Celebration of Franco-Irish Heritage and Francophile Community at Alliance Française Dublin We invite you to join us for a full day of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Alliance Française Dublin’s iconic home at 1 Kildare Street, formerly the Kildare Street Club, inaugurated in 1974 by then French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. The day will start...

Old Liffey Ferry Historic Liffey Boat Tour

Old Liffey Ferry Unit 16, North Wall Quay Beside MV Cill Airne, Dublin, Dublin

**Apologies, registration full** Step aboard the Old Liffey Ferry and explore Dublin's rich history. Our 1-hour voyage takes you along the River Liffey, passing iconic landmarks and historic sites. Discover the city's medieval past, industrial heritage, and maritime legacy. Cruise past bustling Dublin Port, where international trade has shaped the city's economy, and picturesque Poolbeg...

Remembering Grangegorman: Share and Tell

Church of Ireland, Grangegorman TU Dublin Grangegorman Lower, Dublin, 7, Dublin

Remembering Grangegorman is an opportunity for people who have memories of living or working on the Grangegorman site, and have objects relating to the site, to share them with Grangegorman Histories. We want to capture the stories of Grangegorman to contribute to the historical record of the site and to shape narratives that will be...

Children’s History Workshop: Barracks Escape Room

Richmond Barracks Dublin 8, Dublin

Join Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche for this free, interactive workshop for children aged 9-12. Solve the puzzles inspired by the history of Richmond Barracks, and see...

Getting Away with It? Women and Murder in Post-Independence Ireland

Richmond Barracks Dublin 8, Dublin

*Apologies, registration full* From independence in 1922 until the abolition of the death penalty in 1990, 25 women were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Only one ultimately met the hangman. This talk explores their lives, crimes, and punishments. Although extraordinarily rare, women’s lethal violence in this period can reveal much about Irish women’s...

Museums: Constructing History Tour

GPO Museum The GPO O'Connell Street, Dublin, Dublin

**Apologies, registration full** Join us at the GPO Museum on this tour showcasing the ways in which museums encourage people of all ages to engage with the past. Museums are the most direct way to learn about and understand the past. This creates unique opportunities and challenges when exploring a complex history and making it...

Lockout to Independence walking tour

Meeting Points - Outside Clonliffe House Pub 43 Ballybough Rd, Dublin 3, Dublin

**Apologies, registration full** Join local guide Sean Deegan for this historically relevant walk pointing out some of the sites during this significant period in our recent past. From the Howth Guns of 1914, to the Irish Citizens Army in this area, Tom and Kathleen Clarke’s House 1916, Father Matthew Park and the Irish Volunteers. Sean...

The Camac in Inchicore-Kilmainham – Small Stream, Mighty River

Meeting point: Lansdowne Valley Park opposite Blackhorse Luas stop Lansdowne Valley Park, Dublin 12, Dublin

**Apologies, registration full** A three kilometre, guided walk provided by Kilmainham Inchicore Heritage Group following the route of the River Camac from Lansdowne Valley Park to what was once the western boundary of Dublin City at Bow Bridge. Though sometimes referred to as a stream, the flowing water of the Camac facilitated settlement and development...

Walking Tour of Marino

Casino Marino Malahide Road Marino, Dublin 3, Dublin 3

**Apologies, registration full** Casino Marino’s experienced tour guide Conal, will provide a historic guided tour of Marino and environs. The tour will include a walking tour commencing in the Casino Marino, through Saint Vincent`s GAA grounds, The Marino Institute, Marino and Griffith Avenue, Marino Crescent and concluding back at the Casino Marino.

Walking Tour – Port to Gallery

The Substation Alexandra Road, Dublin, Dublin

Explore Dublin Port's vibrant history on an immersive walking tour. Discover the restored substation and original east wall, while tracing the evolution of the city, its communities, and industries. The tour's second part will take you to the Pumphouse, once a graving dock area now transformed into a space for the arts. Currently, 'Temple Bar...

Balbriggan & District Historical Society Pop Up Museum

Pop Up Museum, beside The Central - Mrs. O’s, Bridge Street, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, K32 VK57 Bridge Street, Balbriggan, Dublin, Ireland

Balbriggan & District Historical Society will open their Pop Up Museum from 12 - 5pm on 12 October and 13 October 2024 as part of the Fingal Festival of History. The museum will include exhibitions of the people, places, events providing an insight into life in Balbriggan in times gone by. There will also be...

Print, Painting and Politics: Estella Solomons and Dublin

Richmond Barracks Dublin 8, Dublin

Art historian Kathryn Milligan discusses the life and work of Estella Solomons. A graduate of Dublin’s Metropolitan School of Art, Solomons became one of the leading artists of her generation in the Irish capital active within Cumann na mBan in the Irish revolution. From her beautiful illustrations in The Glamour of Dublin (1926) to her...

Taste of History – The History of Food and Drink

National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts & History Collins Barracks Benburb Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin

Join Museum Guides for an interactive tour which will give visitors a flavour of the wealth of artefacts on display in the Museum that show the continuity and change of food preparation over time and the fascinating insights dining can give us into life, society and culture in Ireland. The tour explores the many different...

Taste of History – The History of Food and Drink

National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts & History Collins Barracks Benburb Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin

Join Museum Guides for an interactive tour will gives visitors a flavour of the wealth of artefacts on display in the Museum that show the continuity and change of food preparation over time and the fascinating insights dining can give us into life, society and culture in Ireland. The tour explores the many different ways...

Children’s History Book Club: Dickensian Dublin with Alan Nolan

Richmond Barracks Dublin 8, Dublin

How well do you know Victorian Dublin? In this special meetup of the Children’s History Book Club, we will be joined by author and illustrator Alan Nolan as we learn about Dublin’s lost landmarks and creepiest crypts – as featured in his new historical book series, starring the young Molly Malone and Bram Stoker! Test...

Devil and the Knock-Down: Social History of the Printing Trade

National Print Museum Beggars Bush Barracks Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Dublin

On this bespoke social history tour at the National Print Museum, explore the ordinary (and extraordinary) lives and customs of the printing trade. The tour will cover topics such as the role of women in the Irish printing trade, ‘fire eaters’, ‘printer’s devils’ and the pressmen who were brought to court for eating a sausage!...

Turas Treoraithe ar Bully’s Acre agus reiligí an Ospidéil Ríoga, Cill Mhaighneann

An tOspidéal Ríoga (Royal Hospital)

Bígí linn agus foghlaimeoimid faoi stair na reiligí ó ré na Lochlannach go dtí an tÉirí Amach 1916. Go hiomlán trí ghaeilge. Cuir d’áit in áirithe trí ríomhphost a sheol chuig rhktours@opw.ie Notes: Caith éadaí oiriúnach don aimsir (Dress appropriately for the weather). Not wheelchair accessible. Uneven terrain.