Nick Maxwell Judging by the massive public response to RTÉ’s ‘Road to the Rising’ event on Easter Monday on Dublin’s O’Connell Street (an estimated 50,000 turned out in bright sunshine), the answer to the rhetorical question posed by Brian Hanley in the last issue—‘Who fears to speak of 1916?’—is (apart from the ‘knaves’ and ‘slaves’ of the … Read more
MAY 33 Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. The GPO—200 years of history, Stephen Ferguson. Adm. €3. 7 Thur 11.30am RMS Lusitania centenary lecture, Bray Library, Eglinton Road. The last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, James Scannell. 7 Thur 6.30pm National Print Museum, Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road. ‘The embrace … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150417-HistoryIrelandShow-044.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ National Library, Kildare Street. 7pm Tues 14 April. Tommy Graham with John Horne, Lar Joye, Myles Dungan
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150417-HistoryIrelandShow-043.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” As part of the RTÉ ‘The Road to the Rising’ Event, Gresham Hotel, 3.30pm Monday 6 April 2015 History Ireland Hedge School —Was the Easter Rising justified? Panellists: Ronan Fanning, Felix Larkin, John Borgonovo, Padraig … Read more
March 3 Tues 8pm Clare & Shannon Archaeological & Historical Societies, Old Ground Hotel, Ennis. Praying and singing in medieval Ireland, 1000–1600, Frank Lawrence. 6 Fri 7.30pm NUI Maynooth History Forum, Rhetoric House, South Campus. The moral economy—how the poor survived in 1830s Ireland, Seán Bagnall. 9 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, … Read more