Nick Maxwell On 9 February 1912 the Belfast News-letter reported that ‘yesterday the Right Honourable Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, paid his much discussed visit to Belfast, and, in company with Mr Redmond and Mr Devlin, addressed a Home Rule meeting in the Celtic Park grounds under the presidency of Lord Pirrie K.P. Without … Read more
The erection of a national memorial to servicemen from Ireland who were killed in the Great War was being proposed almost as soon as the war was over; in 1919 a trust fund was established for this purpose. There were various suggestions as to what form a war memorial would take (such as a physical … Read more
Wed 7pm Lucan Library, Unit 33, shopping centre. The shadow war: Michael Collins and the politics of violence, Joe Connell. Wed 8pm Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society, Royal Marine Hotel. The Oratory [formerly Dominican Convent]: this hidden gem decorated in the Celtic style by Sister Concepta Lynch, Liz Pilkington. Adm. €3.
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. The Liffey’s place in the development of Dublin, Christpher Moriarty.