Nick Maxwell 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.
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
Thur 7.30pm Eblana Forum, Dún Laoghaire Club, 3 Eblana Avenue. Weapons of the Irish Revolution, Paul Callery.
1986 At a Sinn Féin Árd Fheis, delegates voted to change the party’s constitution to allow members to sit in Dáil Éireann. Gerry Adams (37) was elected president. 1815 George Boole, the founder of pure mathematics and of computer science, first professor of mathematics at Queen’s College, Cork (1849), born in Lincoln.
Making History (1988), few have commented on the impact this has had on the study of Irish history and its dissemination to a wider public. Translations was the first production of the Field Day Theatre Company, set up at the height of the Northern ‘Troubles’ to explore a cultural ‘fifth province’ that would transcend political … Read more