Nick Maxwell Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road. The military world of Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork, 1603–1642, David Edwards. Fri 8.30pm Kilkenny Home Rule Club, 3 St John’s Quay. Spanish ’flu, Ida Milne. Adm. €5.
Thur–Sat ICTU & Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class, NUI Galway. Labour, gender and class in the struggle for Irish Independence.
05 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Paul Henry—art and Modernism, Eimear O’Connor. Adm. €3.
Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South. Surviving the seventeenth century? The Kennedys of Mount Kennedy, Cork, Therese Hicks.
Despite a chequered career in the service of six European monarchs (four of them Russian) and a military reputation that merited Frederick the Great of Prussia’s glowing comparison to Prince Eugene, Lacy has not merited a biography in either Russian or English. A number of possible reasons can be proffered for this major lacuna in … Read more