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,...
(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...
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,...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In his latest collection, Other People's Lives, Dermot Bolger follows in the footsteps of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, in using the backdrop of walks through his native city...
In the late eighteenth century, the artist James Malton captured Dublin at a moment in time. The engraver and watercolourist gave us some of the most iconic depictions of buildings...
Dr Melanie Brown Two circumstances, namely the small number of Jews in Ireland in the twentieth century, together with the Irish government's complex attitude to its own professed neutrality during...