Nick Maxwell November 02 Mon 7pm Irish Labour History Society & Communications Workers’ Union, Norton House, North Circular Road. Communicating the union, Francis Devine. 02 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Burials in settlements or settlement in cemeteries? Archaeological evidence for the treatment and role of the dead among the living … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150930-HistoryIrelandShow-052.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @Glasnevin Cemetery Visitor Centre, 7 pm, Thursday, 17 September 2015 Hedge School master Tommy Graham with historians Judith Campbell, Gabriel Doherty, Shane Kenna and Conor McNamara. A History Ireland Hedge School supported by the Commemorations … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150911-HistoryIrelandShow-051.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Rathmichael Summer School, National School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill, Co. Dublin 8pm Fri 21 Aug Franc Myles, Tom Condit, Seán Duffy, Robert Chapple and Tommy Graham in the chair Listeners please note: only the first … Read more
Joseph Plunkett was the primary planner of the Rising, and the objective was that the Volunteers and Citizen Army would seize strategic buildings throughout Dublin in order to cordon off the city and resist the coming attacks by units of the British army. The Volunteers’ plan had two elements: first, to prevent British access to … Read more
In his memoir Rebellions, Tom Dunne gives what I suspect is the enduring image of T. Desmond Williams (1921–87), professor of modern history in UCD for nearly 40 years, for many students who encountered him in his later years. Dunne writes, after noting Williams’s eccentric teaching methods, ‘I was never very interested in the already … Read more