In all the media hoopla surrounding President Trump’s recent visit to Europe very little attention was paid to the ostensible purpose of the visit—to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy landings, a key contribution to the eventual defeat of fascism and Nazism a year later. (Needless to say, no mention at all was … Read more
JULY 03 Wed 6.30pm Inchicore Library, Emmet Road, Inchicore. The Black and Tans to the Treaty. inchicorelibrary@dublincity 04 Thur 1pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Guided tour of the Yeats exhibition. 04 Thur 7pm Irish Archaeology Field School, Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford. Before the Normans—the archaeology of early medieval Wexford, Ian Doyle. … Read more