August 04
Fri 7.30pm History Ireland Hedge School, Lispole Community Hall, Co. Kerry. Thomas Ashe—martyr, musician, sportsman and Gaeilgóir, Mary McAuliffe, Richard McElligott, Joe Higgins, Micheál Ó Moráin.
Nick Maxwell
August 04-05
Fri–Sat Friend and Foe 1917: U-Boat activity and rescue in Waterford Harbour, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. Two-day centenary commemorative event.
BOOKWORM
By Joe Culley Barbara Hussey and Anna Kealy (eds), Nothing is written in stone: the notebooks of Justin Keating (Lilliput Press, €20 pb, 280pp, ISBN 9781843516774). Nell Regan, Helena Molony: a radical life, 1883–1967 (Arlen House, €27 pb, 275pp, ISBN 9781851321650). Tina O’Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann Ó Cinnéide (eds), Women writing war: Ireland 1880–1922 … Read more
July 30
Sun 2pm Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, Killeagh graveyard. Fenian Rising 150th anniversary field trip, with Griffin Murray, Aidan Harte & Martin Millerick.
July 26
Wed 7pm History Ireland Hedge School, Richmond Barracks gymnasium, Inchicore, Dublin 8. ‘After my last song’—the life and death of Francis Ledwidge, Michael O’Flanagan, Eunan O’Halpin, Miriam O’Flanagan, Robert Ballagh, Liam O’Meara.