The Dublin Festival of History Table Quiz, with Dublin’s Historians in Residence

Mansion House Dawson St, Dublin 2

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...

James Smyth – Dr Charles Lucas, Tribune of the People

City Hall Dame St, Dublin 2

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....

Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924

Mansion House Dawson St, Dublin 2

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...

Santiago in Dublin: The Story of St James’s Churches and Graveyard, talk by Sean J Murphy

Richmond Barracks Dublin 8, Dublin

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...