The Guardians: 100 Years of An Garda Síochána, 1922-2022 takes readers from the first generation of the Civic Guard/ Garda Síochána, through the 1950s and 1960s, and up to the modern policing service provided by An Garda Síochána in 21st-century Ireland. In this talk, Garda Stephen Moore examines a century of the Gardaí. Note: :...
Are you interested in modern Irish history? Do you think you and your friends could pitch yourself against other history buffs? Join Dublin City's Historians in Residence in one of the city’s most historic locations, the Mansion House, for this table quiz that will test your Irish history knowledge. Teams of four will face eight...
Although born in County Clare, of old Cromwellian stock, and effectively exiled to the Netherlands and London through the 1750s, Charles Lucas ranks as one of the great Dubliners, radicals, pamphleteers, and journalists of eighteenth-century Ireland. He mobilised the Trade Guilds to win one of the city’s two seats in parliament and was promptly disbarred....
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 turmoil. After the Civil War the Corporation continued to irritate the central Government with its activities. In these politically sensitive years, there was a determination...
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee of the Pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at war and at peace; from...
Frank McDonough in conversation with Paul McGann. Established in 1918-19, in the wake of Germany's catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The...
Major turning points in Irish history and great shifts in societal attitudes are often associated with progress but can also be mired in violence. Here, historian and creator of the Irish History Podcast, Fin Dwyer looks at pivotal moments in Ireland’s past – separated by time but tied together by one common trait: murder. He...
Liz Gillis, Mary McAuliffe and Sinead McCoole in conversation with Margaret Ward. The Irish Government launched the Decade of Centenaries in 2012 to celebrate and re-examine the major historical events during the foundation of the Irish State. At the end of the decade this expert panel will discuss the changing nature of women’s representation during...
**Booked out** Helena Murphy is a tour guide of Dublin with Original Dublin. On this unique walking tour, she will explore the LGBTQ+ history of Dublin city centre, in a year that marks 30 years since the decriminilisation of homosexuality. Original Dublin is a local tour company formed in Dublin City in 2022. Meeting at...
Dublin's St James's Church and Graveyard were founded between 1189-92 and dedicated to the saint believed to be buried in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. A total of about 100,000 people were buried in St James's Graveyard before its closure in 1989, most of them Catholics. The graveyard is now owned by Dublin City Council...
The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation. Between 1940 and 1943, a small group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and almost completely unknown - humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the Polish Ambassador, Aleksander Lados, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity...
Jim Lockhart and Barry Devlin in conversation with Elizabeth Boyle 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Horslips seminal album ‘The Táin’. Based on the Irish saga Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), part of the Ulster Cycle of heroic tales, it tells of the war caused by Queen Maeve’s plotting to steal the...
Panel discussion with Cormac Moore, Diarmaid Ferriter and Síobhra Aiken The Land Border between Northern and Southern Ireland was originally intended as an administrative boundary between two devolved parts of the United Kingdom. By the end of 1922 it marked the border between the UK and the new “Irish Free State”. In this event, Dublin...
Dan Stone in conversation with Robert Gerwarth. The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialised and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone reveals how the idea of ‘industrial murder’ is incomplete: many were...
In her latest book, Mary Beard focuses on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not the usual chronological account of Roman rulers: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power...
Mark Jones in conversation with Jennifer Wellington. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium militarily occupied Germany’s economic heartland, the Ruhr, triggering a series of crises that almost spiralled out of control. Hyperinflation plunged millions into poverty and Hitler’s populism ascended to national prominence. In...
A talk by Katherine Pangonis. Of the many cities that dot the Mediterranean coastline, Tyre, Carthage, Syracuse, Ravenna and Antioch are among the oldest and most intriguing. All are beautifully situated, and for history and cultural riches they are rivalled only by their sister cities of Rome, Istanbul and Jerusalem. Yet their fates have been...
In April 1998 the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement was signed, largely bringing an end to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The author, journalist and BBC NI’s former Political Editor Mark Devenport reported live on the lead-up and signing of the Agreement and has spent the last 25 years exploring the highs and lows of...