To celebrate the Dublin Festival of History, Experience Glasnevin is delighted to host a series of highlight tours of Glasnevin, visiting the crypt of the cemetery’s founder Daniel O’Connell, the...
This photographic exhibition about the recent excavations in St Canice's abbey and churchyard will open on Tuesday 26 September and run for the remainder of the festival. It will be...
To mark the publication of a new Conservation Management Plan, Christ Church will host a series of talks discussing the past, present and future of this iconic Dublin building. Tuesday...
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...
Visitors will be welcomed to Freemasons’ Hall, the headquarters of Irish Freemasonry since 1869. They will have the opportunity to explore the museum and will be guided around the Masonic...
This year, four memorial plaques will be erected by Dublin City Council in partnership with Dublin Fire Brigade. The plaques will mark the sites where a total of seven Dublin...
The Gaelic Athletic Association is often evoked in terms of its objects: medals passed down from generation to generation, jerseys worn in All-Ireland finals, Michael Cusack’s blackthorn stick, a pair...
In 1886 Dublin’s Glass Bottle Makers went on strike to oppose a third successive pay-cut. To break the strike, the city’s bottle manufacturers brought over workers from Denmark and Sweden....
This talk will discuss the fascinating life of Patrick O’Connell, a Dubliner who enjoyed a successful career as a professional footballer in Belfast and England during the early twentieth century...
Join Alison Martin for this online talk on Countess Markievicz’s life and her propaganda cartoons in the lead up to and during the Irish civil war from the National Library’s...
Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in tandem with the new...
Collaborating with the Digital Repository of Ireland, Dr. Martina Mullaney and Dr. Tina Kinsella of the Feminist Art Making Histories Project (FAMH) will deliver a talk about the recording, curating,...
Come see the beautiful early eighteenth-century of Edward Worth (1676-1733), a Dublin physician who bequeathed a magnificent collection of books to Dr Steevens' Hospital. Tours at noon on each Open...
When Seamus Heaney began writing poetry in the 1960s, Ireland was moving into the modern era, but it was to memories of growing up on a small rural farm in...
This photographic exhibition about the recent excavations in St Canice's abbey and churchyard will open on Tuesday 26 September and run for the remainder of the festival. It will be...
To celebrate the Dublin Festival of History, Experience Glasnevin is delighted to host a series of highlight tours of Glasnevin, visiting the crypt of the cemetery’s founder Daniel O’Connell, the...
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...
The Halfway House, at the junction of Walkinstown Road and Drimnagh Road, is steeped in history. Why was it raided and set on fire in 1921, at the height of...