December 7
Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road. ‘Home for Christmas’: John Francis O’Reilly and John Kenny, the last German agents to ‘drop in’, Anthony Kinsella.
Nick Maxwell
December 01
Thur 2pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. Public tour: The life and works of William Butler Yeats.
November 23
Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Settlement and architecture in Plantation Ireland: an archaeological perspective, James Lyttleton.
November 21
Thur 7.30pm Eblana Forum, Dún Laoghaire Club, 3 Eblana Avenue. Deansgrange graves, Jamie Moran. Thur 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel. Fassaroe and related crosses, Rachel Moss. Adm. €5. Thur 8pm Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society, Holy Rosary Centre. A picture of romance: the story of Mabel Young and Paul Henry, Paul Flynn.
November 03
1918 A week after being ordered by the imperial naval command to sail out and make a last stand in the North Sea against the British, crews of the German fleet at Kiel, on the Baltic coast, mutinied. 1917 Conor Cruise O’Brien, writer, historian, academic and politician, born in Dublin. 1917 The Balfour Declaration—Arthur Balfour, … Read more