Week of Events
Turas Siúlóide Dhátheangach ar Streachailt do Shaoirse (1912-23), le hamhráin/ Bilingual Walking Tour on the Fight for Irish Freedom (1912-23), with songs
Turas Siúlóide Dhátheangach ar Streachailt do Shaoirse (1912-23), le hamhráin/ Bilingual Walking Tour on the Fight for Irish Freedom (1912-23), with songs
**Apologies, registration full** 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...
Interwar Ireland: State-Building and Peace-Making
Interwar Ireland: State-Building and Peace-Making
**Apologies, registration full** The Irish Research Council (IRC) will showcase some of the most exciting research in Ireland today. IRC-supported researchers will share insights on their latest projects and join...
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
**Apologies, registration full** In 1904, Roger Casement became internationally celebrated for unearthing the grotesque violence of the Belgian Congo. Soon after, he won even greater renown and a knighthood for...
“Clouded Reveries” Film Screening
“Clouded Reveries” Film Screening
Is scannán faisnéise é Clouded Reveries faoi shaol agus shaothar an fhile agus an scríbhneoir aistí beo Éireannaigh Doireann Ní Ghríofa, a bhí i mbéal an phobail go tobann sa...
From Prejudice to Punk to Pride
From Prejudice to Punk to Pride
As former lead singer with Dublin punk band Chant! Chant! Chant! and founding member of Muted Cupid, Ireland's first LGBT theatre group, Eoin Freeney reflects on the post-punk era of...
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and...
Paula Meehan in Conversation
Paula Meehan in Conversation
**Apologies, registration full** Paula Meehan is one of Ireland's best-known contemporary poets. In this discussion with historian Donal Fallon, she will read and discuss a number of recent works with...
Land Is All That Matters
Land Is All That Matters
**Apologies, registration full** In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well....
Songs of History
Songs of History
Songs have told the story of Ireland and Irish history for centuries. In this special event, musicians and singers Mike Hanrahan and Eleanor Shanley, working with historian Liz Gillis will...
The Trouble with Recent History
The Trouble with Recent History
**Apologies, registrations full** The last 50 years in Ireland present a very turbulent and troubled history. The country has seen terrible violence in Northern Ireland, the collapse of the economy...
Turas Treoraithe ar Chaisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath
Turas Treoraithe ar Chaisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath
Déanfaidh Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí ceiliúradh ar ár stair agus ár dteanga le chéile ag Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath mar chuid de Fhéile na Staire Bhaile Átha Cliath. Bígí linn...
The outbreak of the Troubles, 1969-73: ‘Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume fourteen’
The outbreak of the Troubles, 1969-73: ‘Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume fourteen’
Since 1998 the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series has been publishing archival documents on Ireland's foreign relations since 1919, to make them more accessible. Now, with the fourteenth...
Old Liffey Ferry Historic Liffey Boat Tour
Old Liffey Ferry Historic Liffey Boat Tour
**Apologies, registration full** Step aboard the Old Liffey Ferry and explore Dublin's rich history. Our 1-hour voyage takes you along the River Liffey, passing iconic landmarks and historic sites. Discover...
Queer Femininities of the late 19th and 20th Century Ireland
Queer Femininities of the late 19th and 20th Century Ireland
Mary McAuliffe will lead discussion on this nascent and very vibrant area of study in the histories of Irish sexualities. She’ll be talking about Irish female revolutionaries and same-sex relationships....
Gaeil agus Géibheann agus Éamonn Mac Thomáis (1927-2002)
Gaeil agus Géibheann agus Éamonn Mac Thomáis (1927-2002)
Nótáil gur eachtra dhá pháirt é seo a bheidh 90 nóiméad in fhad. Gaeil agus Géibheann Eoghan Mac Cormaic Ina leabhar nua fhoilsithe Gaeil agus Géibheann tharraing Eoghan Mac Cormaic...
Heroines of the Wars: Talk by Clare Mulley and Rick Stroud
Heroines of the Wars: Talk by Clare Mulley and Rick Stroud
Clare Mulley tells the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. She was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw...
History Ireland Hedge School: Is Irish history ‘sea blind’?
History Ireland Hedge School: Is Irish history ‘sea blind’?
In 1986, the maritime historian, John de Courcey Ireland, wrote: ‘The lives of island peoples like Ireland’s been dominated by the seas encircling them. Yet this fact has been largely...
The Irish in the Resistance
The Irish in the Resistance
**Apologies, registration full** Clodagh Finn and John Morgan are co-authors of The Irish in the Resistance, a new history which tells some of the untold stories of the ordinary heroes...
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
Sam Leith and Sarah Carey Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? Maybe you tumbled down a rabbit hole, flew out of your bedroom...
Churchill and the First World War: Talk by Peter Caddick-Adams
Churchill and the First World War: Talk by Peter Caddick-Adams
**Apologies, this event is now CANCELLED** In his short new biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian Peter Caddick-Adams shows that the recipe for Winston Churchill’s success during his wartime premiership...
Stanford 100: Pipeworks Organ Recitals at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Stanford 100: Pipeworks Organ Recitals at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
2024 marks the centenary of the death of Dublin born composer, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. With a strong association with Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Stanford was one of the most significant...