Bígí linn ar thuras siúlóide staire chun foghlaim faoin troid ar son shaoirse na hÉireann i mBaile Átha Cliath ag tús an fichiú haois. Déanfaidh an turas seo iniúchadh ar...
**Apologies, registration full** Join your tour guide Ronan McGreevy for A First World War tour of Dublin. The First World War was the biggest war that Ireland participated in. The war left a bitter and contested legacy in Dublin which in 1914 began as a city in a British Empire at war with Germany and...
Meg Connery was a leading figure in the Irish militant suffragette movement of the early twentieth century, and was prominent in driving the campaign for voting rights for Irish women....
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 a predecessor of Grattan and Flood and indeed in some respects a precursor of the republican United Irishmen. Following his election to Dublin Corporation as...
Patrick Quigley will explore how Stanislaw (Stasko) Markiewicz, son of Casimir and stepson of Countess Markievicz, stayed in Dublin at three critical stages of his life. He had a happy childhood in Rathgar before leaving Dublin for Ukraine in 1915, returned to comfort the Countess on her deathbed in 1927 and emigrated from Poland to...
This year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Cathal Brugha. Brugha was a tireless and devoted activist for Irish republicanism across various spheres including: as an Irish language activist in the Gaelic League, a key organiser for both the Irish Volunteers and Sinn Féin, Minister for Defence in the underground Dáil government from...
The Irish Tourist Association (ITA) was established in January 1925 as a result of a Conference held in Government Buildings in Dublin, under the Presidency of the Minister for Industry...
