Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20140311-HistoryIrelandShow-034.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded on 17 August @Heritage Festival, Kitchen Bake (old Methodist Hall) Tommy Graham in the Chair with Pascal Mooney, Marc Geagan, Gerry Gallagher, Charlie McGettigan
Wed 6.30pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse Street. Dublin day by day, Ken Kinlay + presentation of the Society’s Medal.
Thurs 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2. Irish literature and the historiography of eighteenth-century Ireland, Vincent Morley.
Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. South. Kilmainham, Islandbridge and beyond—new light on Irish Viking graves, Stephen Harrison.
The Lockout centenary inevitably focuses attention on Dublin’s tenement slums, but urban poverty is nothing new. Amongst the copious holdings of Marsh’s LIbrary are a small collection of papers relating to one of the less salubrious institutions of eighteenth-century Dublin: its workhouse (MS Z.3.1.1, 143-55). … Read more