Join Adrian Le Harivel, former Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, for this talk. He became intrigued about this important aspect of streetscape, while walking the city and researching domestic clocks. There are about 80 public clocks across central Dublin, between the two canals, many easily missed. Dated examples range from 1804 to 2019,...

Join Irish playwright Jimmy Murphy for this talk. After O’Casey’s exile from Ireland and the Abbey, Irish theatre entered a phase of mildly amusing, middle class comedies that endured until the early 1950s, however, the arrival of a radical new play and a daring production signalled a seismic shift, reshaping the Irish theatrical landscape forever....

Spenser’s View has, for centuries, been treated variously as a trove of prejudiced antiquarian lore useful for disparaging Irish people at moments of crisis, and as a store house of evidence that the English government engaged upon an Irish genocide in Elizabethan times. This lecture offers a radical re-appraisal of the manuscript copy that Spenser...

Juliana Adelman is a historian interested in science, medicine and the environment, especially in nineteenth-century Ireland. Now, she is the author of The Grateful Water, a novel set in1866. When...

Angela Byrne explores the rich and varied connections between Ireland and Russia in the pre-revolutionary period, focusing on the Irish women who went in search of adventure or employment, for...

In 1937 the Dublin United Tramways Company (1896) embarked on a programme of replacing its trams with buses but the onset of the 'Emergency' paused this. By 1948 CIÉ had...

Emerging from centuries of oppression and a bitter civil war, the government of the Irish Free State faced huge challenges to ensure democracy would succeed and Ireland would take her...

The Tailteann Games, a sporting and cultural festival, were re-imagined and modernised from the ancient games of the same name and held for the first time in 1924 as Ireland's...

In August 1951, the Gold Coast National football team came to Ireland, playing matches in Belfast and Dublin.  The match in Dublin took place in Dalymount Park on Wednesday, 22nd...

Our history often hides in plain sight. We travel roads, pass laneways and street-signs without appreciating the events that may have happened here in the past. A photograph found in...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of one of Dublin’s most beloved artists. Harry Kernoff was a devoted lover of Dublin City and expressed his passion in...

Join historian, Sean J Murphy, for this talk about Charles Lucas. Dr Charles Lucas (1713-1771) was a Protestant or Anglo-Irish Nationalist whose statue stands in Dublin’s City Hall. He was...