September 29 – October 14
Oct (2 weeks) Dublin Festival of History, http://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie. Speakers include: Chris Patten, Janina Ramirez, Ian Kershaw, Robert Service.
Nick Maxwell
September 19
Thur 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel, Bray. The 1867 Bray Head derailment, James Scannell. Adm. €5.
September 12
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. Dorothy Macardle: unlikely republican, Leeann Lane.
Half-Irish and all slave
The life of John Roy Lynch, whose political career during Reconstruction is one of the most remarkable achievements in the pantheon of Irish-American politics. By Joe Regan On 3 November 1939, the New York Times reflected on the political career of the recently deceased John Roy Lynch, remarking that he was ‘one of the most … Read more
Reconstruction
The American Civil War (1861–5) brought freedom to four million slaves. Reconstruction was the attempt to politically, socially and economically rebuild and reform the South. By the early 1870s, biracial democratically elected governments were functioning throughout the South. Citizenship and suffrage had been granted to African-Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) and the Fifteenth Amendment … Read more