January-February Events

Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Rd. ‘Unshaken loyalty’: the Catholic Irish Brigade in British service, 1793–1798, Ciaran McDonnell.

Mon    8pm Clondalkin Historical Society, Áras Cronáin, Watery Lane. The Kildare connection to the Easter Rising 1916, Seamus Cullen. Thur    7pm Glasnevin Trust & Trinity College Dublin, Glasnevin Milestone Museum. Poets of the back chair: Francis Ledwidge and Hedd Wynn (1887–1917), Myles Dungan and Nerys Williams. Adm. €10. Thur    pm Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, … Read more

Fri-Sat Roundwood Historical Society Seminar on 1916, Parish Centre. Nationalism 1603–1905, Kevin Whelan; Women and 1916, Mary McAuliffe; Nationalism 1905–1916, Eunan O’Halpin; James Connolly and the Left, Pádraig Yeates; History Ireland Hedge School, The 1916 Proclamation: then and now, Robert Balagh, Eunan O’Halpin, Pádraig Yeates, Margaret Ward. Tickets €20, +353 (0)1 2818146, mon.farrell@gmail.com.

Tues    7pm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown 1916 Committee, The Lexicon, DL. Roger Casement, Angus Mitchell. Tues    8pm Howth Peninsula Heritage Society, Angling Centre, West Pier. Eoin MacNeill: scholar, nationalist, revolutionary, parliamentarian, Michael McDowell. Thur    7pm Glasnevin Trust & Trinity College Dublin, Glasnevin Milestone Museum. The Hales brothers and the Irish Revolution, Liz Gillis. Adm. €10.

Tues 8pm Foxrock Local History Club, Pastoral Centre, RC Church. A history of Dublin Port, Cormac Lowth; Famous visits (popes, presidents, royalty), Padraig Laffan. Adm. €5.