Join Alison Martin for this online talk on Countess Markievicz’s life and her propaganda cartoons in the lead up to and during the Irish civil war from the National Library’s collections. Alison Martin is a writer and historian from Belfast. Her research focuses on the Irish revolutionary period (1916-1923) and this talk is based on...

Join NLI curator, Elizabeth Kirwan for this overview of the National Library’s photographic collections. As Ireland’s capital city, Dublin witnessed many aspects of the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923.  This talk will highlight a selection of original photographs of Dublin taken during 1922-1923 from the NLI’s historic collections. These photographs reflect a turbulent and bitter period...