October 04-06
Fri–Sun North Wexford History & Heritage Festival, Gorey, various venues. Seminar on the ‘decade of centenaries’; annual Byrne-Perry lecture; schools essay competition; walking tours.
Nick Maxwell
September 21-22
Sat–Sun Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Autumn School, Gleesons Hotel, Roscommon. hayden.tallaght@gmail.com, 087-9374277.
EVENTS
September 02 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2. Undimmed by the shadow of Rome? Ireland in a European world (100 BC–AD 500), Alexandra Guglielmi. 09 Mon 6.30pm Rathmines Library, Dublin 6 (rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie, 01-497 3539). First Dáil and first shots, Maeve Casserly. 10 Tues 8pm Genealogical Society of … Read more
The Irish Army and the Emergency
By Lar Joye This September marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the passing of the Emergency Powers Act 1939 by Dáil Éireann. Between 1939 and 1945 Ireland remained neutral, although many Irish men and women joined the British Army. The Irish Army expanded to several times its pre-war … Read more
‘An immortal smile of victory’
Albert Power’s bust of Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920). By Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch On 26 October 1920 the Freeman’s Journal devoted its front page to the Sinn Féin lord mayor of Cork, Terence J. MacSwiney, who had died the previous day in Brixton Prison, London, after a hunger strike lasting 74 days. A photograph of the dead man, … Read more