A Complicated History: Ireland and the Caribbean

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum The Chq Building, Custom House Quay, North Dock, Dublin 1, Dublin, Dublin

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...

The Coming of the Railway to Inchicore

Dublin City Library & Archive Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin, Dublin

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...

Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924

Mansion House Dawson St, Dublin 2

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...

Building Coolock and Artane: From farmland to suburb

Coolock Library Barryscourt Road, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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...

Henry McKop: Shelbourne FC Cult Hero

Ballymun Library Ballymun Road, Dublin 11, Dublin

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...

A History of the Dublin Cattle Market

Phibsboro Library Phibsboro Library Blacquiere Bridge, Phibsboro, Co.Dublin

**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...

Weaving In The Liberties

Inchicore Library Richmond Barracks, Dublin, Dublin

The Liberties of Dublin has historically been home to an industrial working class. Much of this history is related to brewing and distilling, and the associated businesses and trades that...

Lunchtime Tour: How to Search at the Registry of Deeds

Tailte Éireann Registry of Deeds Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Dublin

This tour will give a brief history of the Registry of Deeds and will show how you can search our records. The records date from 1708 and relate to property...

Medicine in History and History in Medicine

The Edward Worth Library The Edward Worth Library Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin, Dublin

**Booked out** Professor Davis Coakley (1946-2022) was an outstanding physician, historian, and leader of reform in medical services and education. This inaugural Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture explores the position of...

The role of Landlords during the Great Irish Famine

Annie Moore Room, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum The CHQ Building George's Dock, Dublin 1, Dublin

**Booked out** What impact did the Great Famine have on land ownership and estate boundaries in Ireland? What did it mean for tenant farmers and how did the landed gentry...

Industrial heritage of Dublin south-east

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

Presented by the Dublin City Council Archaeology and Heritage sections, in association with the Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland. This lecture will focus on the industrial heritage of the south-eastern...

From 8th Amendment to Repeal of the 8th

Central Library Ilac Centre Henry St, Dublin 1, Dublin

Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40th anniversary of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, including a comparison with the successful campaign for Repeal...