AUGUST 01

Thur 1pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Guided tour of the Yeats exhibition. Thur 2.30pm Spirit of Mother Jones Summer School, North Cathedral Visitor Centre, Cork. The extraordinary life of John Swiney, United Irishman, Kieran Groeger.

JULY 12

Fri 1pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Guided tour of the ‘World War Ireland’ exhibition.

July 04

Thur 1pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Guided tour of the Yeats exhibition. Thur 7pm Irish Archaeology Field School, Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford. Before the Normans—the archaeology of early medieval Wexford, Ian Doyle.

Peterloo—an Irish tragedy?

Amongst those killed and injured were a great many of the city’s Irish workers and their families. By Mairtín Ó Catháin This year marks the 200th anniversary of the infamous attack by government forces on a mass gathering of parliamentary reformers in St Peter’s Fields in Manchester, in which an estimated seventeen people were killed … Read more

EVENTS

JULY 03 Wed 6.30pm Inchicore Library, Emmet Road, Inchicore. The Black and Tans to the Treaty. inchicorelibrary@dublincity 04 Thur 1pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Guided tour of the Yeats exhibition. 04 Thur 7pm Irish Archaeology Field School, Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford. Before the Normans—the archaeology of early medieval Wexford, Ian Doyle. … Read more