By Eoin Meegan This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of women winning the right to vote, an event that has rightly been widely celebrated. To understand how this came about, however, we have to go back to the nineteenth century. […]
Read more →By Eoin Meegan This year sees the centenary of the sinking of RMS Leinster, a combined passenger and mail sorting ship that was fatally struck by a torpedo on October 10th 1918. Eclipsed, perhaps, by other events at the […]
Read more →Graphic Explorations In Print is a showcase of work produced by graphic design students at Distillers Press from 1983 up to the modern day. The exhibition had its debut last December and is running in the National Print Museum in […]
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Learn about Donnybrook’s hidden history of Wesleyans and Mad Hatters this weekend! In 1813, Mr John Wright and his two brothers set up a beaver hat factory in Donnybrook, building a row of cottages to house its workers. These workers […]
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Claim your history with Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society! The Docklands have a rich cultural history which is in danger of being forgotten in more modern times, as Declan Byrne from the DDWPS points out: “From the 1900s to the […]
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Dublin City Council’s Decade of Commemorations continues this year by marking the 100th anniversary of the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. On Saturday, President Michael D. Higgins laid a wreath at the grave of the Fenian leader and revolutionary who […]
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This weekend sees the first annual Sarah Lundberg Summer School event, as East Wall History Group presents Kathleen Lynn, a Truly Radical Woman. The Summer School has been set up to honour activist, historian and publisher Sarah Lundberg, who passed […]
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Gain some insight into a central part of Dublin’s history, as the Mansion House opens its public rooms! As 2015 marks the 300th anniversary of the Mansion House serving as official residence to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the celebrations […]
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Join the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society as they Bring History Alive! Three speakers will hold court in the CHQ Building this weekend, to give an insight into historical and social developments involving Dockland communities and the wider Dublin population […]
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