Nick Maxwell 07 Wed 7pm Irish Association of Professional Historians, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. Annual lecture: Penal Times—Irish Catholics in the eighteenth century, Ian McBride. 07 Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, National School, Stonebridge Road. Georgian Dublin: the forces that shaped the city, Diarmuid Ó Gráda. Adm. €4.
Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Picturing Ireland: a view of the nation from the National Library’s collections, Katherine McSharry.
Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South. Embodying the past: commemorating history through the arts, Kelly Fitzgerald (RSAI), Valerie Connor (Curator), Louise Lowe (ANU Productions), Brenda Malone (NMI). Mon 8pm Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society, T.1.17, Tara Building, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Richard Hayes, codebreaker, Marc McMenamin.
Wed 6.30pm People’s College, Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Sq. W. New borders in Ireland and Europe 1918–1923, William Mulligan. Adm. €5. Wed 8pm Old Athlone Society, www.athlonehistory.ie. Irish as a vernacular language in Athlone and its hinterland, 1600–c. 1970, Aengus Finnegan. Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, … Read more
The IRA’s Civil War campaign against Dublin’s cinemas and theatres By Gavin Foster A few nights after St Patrick’s Day 1923, two men arrived at the Bohemian Picture House in Phibsborough, a suburb on the north side of Dublin. The Irish Free State was still in the throes of civil war, but social life was … Read more