**Event CANCELLED due to unforseen circumstances** In 2013, ANU Productions presented 'Living the Lockout' at 14 Henrietta Street. For many, this was a first engagement with the museum space. Since then, ANU Productions have been a central force in the Decade of Centenaries in Dublin. Louise Lowe from ANU will discuss all of this with...
This tour will be delivered exclusively in ISL. When you enter 14 Henrietta Street you’ll experience over 300 years of city and family life in the walls of one address. Our intimate guided tours bring you on a journey from the house's grand Georgian beginnings to the tenement dwellings of its later years. By connecting...
**Waitlist only** An exploration of attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth-century Dublin by Francis Thackaberry. The citizens of prosperous Georgian Dublin associated poverty with idleness, disease and moral decay and sought ways to prevent ‘foreign’ vagrants from ‘infesting’ the city. One response was to found Dublin’s first tax-funded workhouse in James's Street in 1703....
**Waitlist only** 2023 marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raised in Dublin’s north inner city and with strong connections to Dublin’s tenements, Behan is regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. In 2000, Peter Sheridan directed Borstal Boy, inspired by Brendan's 1958 memoir. Sheridan...