September 28-30
Fri–Sun Ardagh Chalice 150 (2nd WE), Ardagh, Co. Longford. Parades, seminars, guided walks, street entertainment, music, etc. #ardaghchalice150.
Nick Maxwell
September 24 – October 7
Mon–Sun (2 weeks) Dublin Festival of History, various venues. Speakers will include Helen Rappaport (The race to save the Romanovs), Anne Applebaum (Red Famine: Stalin’s war on Ukraine) and Michael Palin (‘The world and voyages of HMS Erebus’). Detailed programme @ http://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie.
September 21-23
Fri–Sun Ardagh Chalice 150 (1st WE), Ardagh, Co. Longford. Parades, seminars, guided walks, street entertainment, music, etc. #ardaghchalice150.
THE JAMES CONNOLLY READER
SHAUN HARKIN (ed.) Haymarket Books €21 ISBN 97816466467 Reviewed by Geoffrey Bell Geoffrey Bell is author of ‘The Easter Rising and the British left’, in Dal Lago, Healy and Barry (eds), 1916 in global context: an anti-imperial moment (Routledge, 2018). Why is James Connolly still worth reading? Why do most parts of the contemporary … Read more
September 03
Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Music, dancing and country house culture in mid-nineteenth century Ireland, Dr Mullaney-Dignam.