Nick Maxwell Fri–Sat Birr Historical Society, conference on Birr workhouse. Speakers: Willie Smyth, Mary E. Daly, John Joe Conwell & Margaret Hogan. Enquiries: www.birrhistsoc.com. Fri–Sat Centre for the Study of Irish Protestantism and Dept of History, NUI Maynooth. Irish religious history: Catholic, Protestant, and beyond? Fri–Sat O’Connell Heritage Summer School, Caherciveen Library and Derrynane House, Caherdaniel. The … Read more
Fri–Sat Birr Historical Society, conference on Birr workhouse. Speakers: Willie Smyth, Mary E. Daly, John Joe Conwell & Margaret Hogan. Enquiries: www.birrhistsoc.com. Fri–Sat Centre for the Study of Irish Protestantism and Dept of History, NUI Maynooth. Irish religious history: Catholic, Protestant, and beyond? Fri–Sat O’Connell Heritage Summer School, Caherciveen Library and Derrynane House, Caherdaniel. The … Read more
2013 is the centenary of the Lockout, but the big one os on the horizen already. Every day at 2.30pm, Glasnevin Cemetery is hosting a re-enactment of Patrick Pearse’s famous (or infamous) oration at the grave of the Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915, where he revealed that he and others were, as … Read more
Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2. Undimmed by the shadow of Rome? Ireland in a European world (100 BC–AD 500), Alexandra Guglielmi.
Mon 8pm Celbridge Historical Society, Celbridge Library. Irish women and World War II, Mary Muldowney.