The Central Bank of Ireland Archive will host a paper which will survey the lives of female employees of the Central Bank of Ireland, and the relationship between changes in the bank to broader socio-cultural changes in Ireland between 1965-1990. Using oral history, archival research and data analysis, the paper will map changes in women’s...
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 open to the public during library opening hours: Tuesday 26 September – Saturday 14 October A 15-min talk on the St. Canice’s Photographic Exhibition by...
Commemorate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement at the GPO Museum. This special guided tour charts the turbulent path to peace on the island of Ireland during the twentieth century; focusing on key developments in twentieth century Irish political and social history, culminating in the peace agreement reached...
This event will showcase some of the most exciting historical scholarship in Ireland today. Researchers supported by the Irish Research Council, will share insights on their projects and discuss working-class life in Dublin across the twentieth century. Contributors will reflect on the social, cultural, and political history and legacies of Dublin’s working-class communities. This event...
**Booked out** Please note: The meeting point is now at The Chapters bookstore. Join Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children, Dervilia Roche, for this family walking tour in Dublin city centre. Families will be following the route of the Hidden Histories treasure hunt, solving clues, and discovering some of the hidden parts of the city’s...
Richmond Barracks is delighted to welcome Liz Gillis, co-author (with Mary McAuliffe) of Richmond Barracks, 1916 “We were there” – 77 women of the Easter Rising’. A landmark text published in 2016, it shone a light on a previously overlooked aspect of the revolutionary period. In the words of John Banville, “This book goes a...
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 Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
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 Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
In this talk, Dr Peter Rigney will speak on conflict on the Irish railway network throughout the 1916 to 1923 period, including industrial relations disputes involving railway workers, the labour movement, and the employers. Inchicore railway works played a key role throughout this revolutionary period. Peter is editor of Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour...
Cuairt ar theach stairiúil le Mícheál Mac Donncha, iar-Ardmhéara na Cathrach, agus údar an leabhair ‘The Mansion House and the Irish Revolution’. B’áit lárnach é seo sna himeachtaí ó 1912 go 1923. A visit to the historic house with Mícheál Mac Donncha, former Lord Mayor of the City, and author of the book ‘The Mansion...
Join Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche for a free, interactive workshop for children aged 9 - 12. Find out what life was like in Medieval Dublin, discover the Medieval buildings that still stand in the city today, and try some Medieval games. Note: Children aged 9-12 must be accompanied by parents or...
Join us at the National Gallery of Ireland for a free guided Irish Sign Language tour exploring some Irish History in the Gallery’s permanent collection. This selection of artworks explores pivotal points in Ireland’s and Dublin’s history. Artists documented important moments in history with portraits of key figures and accurate depictions or artistic interpretations of...
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 Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
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 Museum and its collection. Discover the journey of Collins Barracks in ‘From Barracks to Museum’, learn about Ireland’s military and revolutionary history in ‘Recovered Voices’...
Michael Healy was raised in a Dublin tenement and through a combination of innate talent, hard work and lucky breaks he pulled himself out of grinding poverty. Ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, he established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in the exacting craft of stained glass and worked at...
‘Four Wedding Dresses and a Funeral Coat’ will combine dramatic scenes with dance and music in Richmond Barracks to explore how the lives of Kitty Kiernan and her sisters became interwoven with some of Ireland’s most iconic leaders and the terrible losses they endured, not only of their menfolk but of their family home, which...
Captain Hermann Goertz parachuted into Ireland during the summer of 1940 with his mission to act as a liaison officer with the IRA and to enlist their assistance during a potential German invasion of Britain. During his period in Ireland, until his arrest in November 1941, he stayed in a number of safe houses including...
Rescheduled event In most cultures music is widely acknowledged as a means of communication which transcends all other media. Through music we gain insight into the thoughts and feelings of others; we articulate the past and present; we touch the spiritual and the temporal. Musical style can be powerfully evocative of any point in time...