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...
Apologies, this event is now cancelled. Talk presented by Dr Usama Gad, Ain Shams University, Cairo. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is one of the largest museums of antiquity in...
Servants and enslavers; merchants and governors; educators and journalists – the history of the Irish in the Caribbean is complex and multifaceted. This talk will survey Irish migration to the...
Historian Liam O'Meara will reveal that it was at Inchicore that the Grand Canal’s first lock was located; here that the old mail coaches would pass down Chapel Road to...
The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation is central to Aodh Quinlavan’s recent absorbing study which captures the mood in the capital during a period of...
Coolock Library will host Dr Ruth McManus for a fascinating talk on the development of Coolock and Artane. From the 1950s onwards, the fields and rural hinterland of Coolock, Artane...
Presented by Dr. James Curry, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence for the North West area. This lecture will discuss the Shelbourne FC career of Henry McKop and tell the...
**Booked out** Dublin City Council Historian in Residence for Dublin Central, Mary Muldowney, is working with Dr Declan O'Brien on a history of the Dublin Cattle Market from its opening...