Historian Liam O'Meara will reveal that it was at Inchicore that the Grand Canal’s first lock was located; here that the old mail coaches would pass down Chapel Road to the turnpike at the Cow and Calf en route to Kildare; and of course, here that the Great Southern & Western Railway company set up...

Professor Frank Barry will reveal that Dublin was still an industrial city when Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973 with almost half of the largest manufacturing establishments in the state. The Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate employed 3,500. Jacob’s biscuit factory employed around 1,500 and was predominantly female. Twenty-five or so of...

Joe Brady and Paul Ferguson will reveal that maps are huge repositories of information and tell much about the times in which they were created. This lecture explores some lesser-known maps of Dublin selected from a larger project tracing the history of the city in maps. Included will be that produced for the funeral of...