Nick Maxwell In this issue’s Platform (pp 10–11) Felix M. Larkin rightly takes successive governments to task for their philistine neglect of our national cultural institutions, and of the National Library in particular. Does he perhaps let righteous indignation get the better of him, however, in contrasting this niggardly approach with ‘the lavish spending of the Easter … Read more
JANUARY 08 Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8. Robert the Bruce’s Irish wars, Seán Duffy. 11 Mon 8pm Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, Harbour Hotel, Dock Road. Galway in 1916—a pictorial review, Paul Duffy + AGM. 12 Tues 8.15pm Skerries Historical Society, Keane’s Lounge, The Bus Bar, … Read more
Mon 8pm Clondalkin Historical Society, Áras Cronáin, Watery Lane. The Kildare connection to the Easter Rising 1916, Seamus Cullen. Thur 7pm Glasnevin Trust & Trinity College Dublin, Glasnevin Milestone Museum. Poets of the back chair: Francis Ledwidge and Hedd Wynn (1887–1917), Myles Dungan and Nerys Williams. Adm. €10. Thur pm Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, … Read more
Fri-Sat Roundwood Historical Society Seminar on 1916, Parish Centre. Nationalism 1603–1905, Kevin Whelan; Women and 1916, Mary McAuliffe; Nationalism 1905–1916, Eunan O’Halpin; James Connolly and the Left, Pádraig Yeates; History Ireland Hedge School, The 1916 Proclamation: then and now, Robert Balagh, Eunan O’Halpin, Pádraig Yeates, Margaret Ward. Tickets €20, +353 (0)1 2818146, mon.farrell@gmail.com. Subscribe to … Read more
Tues 7pm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown 1916 Committee, The Lexicon, DL. Roger Casement, Angus Mitchell. Tues 8pm Howth Peninsula Heritage Society, Angling Centre, West Pier. Eoin MacNeill: scholar, nationalist, revolutionary, parliamentarian, Michael McDowell. Thur 7pm Glasnevin Trust & Trinity College Dublin, Glasnevin Milestone Museum. The Hales brothers and the Irish Revolution, Liz Gillis. Adm. €10. Subscribe to … Read more