The Edward Worth Library will be holding a number of Open Days during Dublin Festival of History. Come see our beautiful early eighteenth-century Library and enjoy our latest exhibition: 'The...
Pembroke Library will host a lecture by Dublin City Historian in Residence Cormac Moore, on the life of Pembroke Library's first Librarian, Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O' Donovan) who,...
You are invited to join us at the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition for an exploration on the influence of the classics on the works of Seamus Heaney. While...
The appointment of the first women on the frontline of Dublin Corporation’s public health service at the turn of the 20th century, when Dublin was widely considered one of Great...
A Bird in the House, God Bless Her was recorded by Michael Fortune of folklore.ie, with the Southside Travellers Action Group (STAG). Telling of rare customs in Ireland, it includes...
Dublin City Historian in Residence, Elizabeth Kehoe, will give a talk about O’Connell Street based on people's memories and historical records so this will be an eclectic mix about the...
**Apologies, registration full** Join the Walk of Shame, a new history of Dublin in the rumours, scandals and crimes of one square mile: the Georgian splendour of Fitzwilliam Square. This...
In July 1927, at just thirty-five years old, Kevin O’Higgins was assassinated on his way to Mass in Booterstown, Co. Dublin. A reviled figure for anti-Treaty republicans, O’Higgins became the...
In her talk – entitled ‘Sacraments and Suburbs: Building Catholic Dublin, 1960-80– Dr Ellen Rowley will share some ongoing research into the relationship between the Irish Catholic Church (namely the Dublin Archdiocese) and the built environment during the heady decades of expansion, from 1960 to c.1980. Richly illustrated and in some instances, barely cooked, Ellen’s...
Dr. Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, will provide an insight into the various illnesses and diseases occurring in Dublin of the 1700s, and how and where...
**CANCELLED** The choral setting of the Requiem Mass is a centuries-old tradition. Its formal structure has brought consolation to generations in its comforting predictability. How then has the choral Requiem...
*Apologies, this event has now been CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances* In the 1970s, the Janelle clothing factory was a significant employer in North-West Dublin. It offered employment to many...
**Apologies, registration full** The Royal Irish Academy will host a live recording of Three Castles Burning, a social history podcast created and hosted by Donal Fallon. The episode will feature the editors and contributors of 'Irish Food History: a companion' (Royal Irish Academy, 2024). Edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman, this book,...
Myles Dungan is one of Ireland’s best-known and most respected broadcasters on both radio and television for more than two decades. He is the author of a number of popular...
The work of women filmmakers has been recognised and celebrated in recent years. However, women’s contribution to the field of nonprofessional filmmaking remains under-explored. As part of a project funded by the Irish Research Council Kasandra O’Connell (IFI Irish Film Archive) and Sarah Arnold (Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University) will discuss...
Join Dublin City Historian in Residence Cathy Scuffil, as she unravels the story behind the Dolphin’s Barn Brick Company and the people associated with it. The company was located on...
There are some 200 memorials in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. In this talk, based on book of the same name, the biographies of those commemorated are explored. Many of these were...
Within the archives of CIÉ are the records of most of the former railway companies of Ireland who operated the railway lines that criss-crossed the country from the 1830s up...
