April 27
Thur 7.30pm Cleary’s Pub, 36 Amiens St. Michael Collins’s Dublin, J.E.A. Connell Jr. Thur 8pm Rathmines, Ranelagh & Rathgar Historical Society, Rathmines Town Hall. The Fitzwilliams of Merrion—the last of the line, Des Smyth. Adm. €3.
Nick Maxwell
April 24
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse Street. Voting for revolution? Dublin parliamentary elections 1918–23, Michael Laffan.
April 20
Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Club, Library. Church/state relations in establishing and reforming legal adoptions in Ireland, 1952–74, Robbie Roulston. Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Brave monuments: the buildings of County Monaghan, Kevin Mulligan.
April 18
Tues 8pm Foxrock Local History Club, Pastoral Centre, Foxrock RC church. Aviation in north Wicklow/south Dublin, Liam Clare; Newtown fife and drum band, Ken Kinsella. Adm. €5.
Strange occurrences in a small Irish village
Underground Films, RTÉ1, 21 December 2016 By John Gibney Strange occurrences in a small Irish village, made by the same team who created the award-winning One million Dubliners, was released in cinemas last August. Aoife Kelleher’s second feature-length documentary shares an aesthetic style and broad thematic approach with its predecessor, not to mention a willingness … Read more