April 03
Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road. An empire in search of subjects: Catholic Irish and the British army in the eighteenth century, Macdara Dwyer.
Nick Maxwell
March 29
Fri 8pm Sligo Field Club, Sligo IT Education Centre. Casimir Markievicz: his love affair with Ireland, Pat Quigley.
March 28
Thurs 8pm Rathmines, Ranelagh & Rathgar Historical Society, Rathmines Town Hall. The Battle of the Four Courts, June 1922, Michael Fewer. Adm. €3.
Rank Silo at Shannon Mills
Dock Road, Limerick By Emma Gilleece The Rank Silo overlooking the docks in Limerick city is one of the last surviving structures of Shannon Mills, once one of the largest flour-milling complexes in these islands. Joseph Rank Ltd, today Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM), was founded by Joseph Rank (1854–1943) in Hull in 1875, and expanded … Read more
March 27
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse Street. ‘Home Rule is casting many a shadow now’: southern women and the Ulster Declaration of 1912, Rosemary Raughter.