March 28
Thurs 8pm Rathmines, Ranelagh & Rathgar Historical Society, Rathmines Town Hall. The Battle of the Four Courts, June 1922, Michael Fewer. Adm. €3.
Nick Maxwell
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.
March 16
16 Fri 7pm Shane Kenna Memorial Lecture, Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street. A critical analysis of the First World War and its impact on Ireland, Lorcan Collins.
German internees at the Curragh Camp
As the Battle of Britain raged across the skies following the capitulation of France in June 1940, the Irish state had not prepared for the possibility of paratroopers, spies and belligerent aircraft crash-landing on its soil By Luke Diver On 20 August 1940, the lack of preparedness of the Irish state was highlighted when a … Read more