Event Listings

Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse Street. ‘Home Rule is casting many a shadow now’: southern women and the Ulster Declaration of 1912, Rosemary Raughter.

16 Fri 7pm Shane Kenna Memorial Lecture, Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street. A critical analysis of the First World War and its impact on Ireland, Lorcan Collins.  

Thur 6.30pm Antrim and Down Branch Western Front Association, PRONI, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter. The homecoming of ex-servicemen to Ireland, Emmanuel Destenay. Thur 8pm Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, Glenalbyn Sports Club. The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes—the Irish Oscar Schindler, Clodagh Finn. Adm. €3.

Sat 10am–4pm Manchester Irish Educational Group, Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester. Conference: The waves of Tory, Jim Hunter; Spike Island, Barra Ó Donnabháin; Charles O’Neill, Francis O’Neill; The Orange Order, Mervyn Busteed.

07 Wed 7pm Irish Association of Professional Historians, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. Annual lecture: Penal Times—Irish Catholics in the eighteenth century, Ian McBride. 07 Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, National School, Stonebridge Road. Georgian Dublin: the forces that shaped the city, Diarmuid Ó Gráda. Adm. €4.