Ireland and the Corfu Crisis, 1923

THE LITTLE-KNOWN CORFU CRISIS OF 1923 PROVIDED INEXPERIENCED IRISH DIPLOMATS WITH A BLUNT INTRODUCTION TO POWER POLITICS By Mark Phelan In August 1923, brigands murdered an Italian general and several of his assistant compatriots who were part of an international commission attempting to define the disputed frontier between Albania and Greece. Because the murders occurred … Read more

Keeping on track

LABOUR, ENLISTMENT AND DEMOBILISATION IN IRELAND’S FIRST WORLD WAR RAILWAYS By Peter Rigney In the early weeks of the First World War, British railway companies were taken under government control. The companies obtained a commitment that no railwayman would be accepted into the forces without the permission of his employer. Irish companies were not thought … Read more

February 28

Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. Shell shock and its treatment at Dublin’s Richmond War Hospital, 1916–1919, Brendan Kelly.

February 27

Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. ‘Down with Dublin’—Frank Gibney and the role of the capital city in the vision of the nation, Fergal MacCabe.