Féile na Staire Baile Átha Cliath 2015

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Dublin City Library & Archive: Wellington Monument
INCLUDES NEW FAMILY
AND CHILDREN’S
PROGRAMME
25 TH SEPTEMBER - 10 TH OCTOBER
Féile na Staire
Baile Átha Cliath 2015
25 MEÁN FÓMHAIR – 10 DEIREADH FÓMHAIR
www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie
Brought to you by Dublin City Council
Events in Dublin Castle
pages 4 to 10
Other events
pages 11 to 16
Family and Children’s Programme
pages 17 to 20
@HistFest
The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council
and is managed by Dublin City Public Libraries.
The Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street houses the
City’s archives and extensive collections relating to Dublin and surrounding
areas. See www.dublincitypubliclibraries.ie for more information and
databases.dublincity.ie for historical resources, genealogical information
and digital collections.
Thanks to Dublin Castle and OPW.
The Family and Children’s Programme for the Dublin
Festival of History has been curated by Children’s Books
Ireland, who run events and projects throughout the
country bringing children closer to the books they love.
Visit www.childrensbooksireland.ie to learn more.
Please access the Printworks venue at Dublin Castle
via the Palace Street entrance, off Dame Street.
Festival Bookshop:
The Gutter Bookshop
Pop-up History Library:
bring along your library card and borrow history books
and historical novels from the Festival’s History Library in Dublin Castle.
Féile na Staire
Baile Átha Cliath 2015
CLÁR
Nach breá an áit é Baile Átha Cliath le haghaidh féile staire? Tá a shráideanna leathana
agus cúnga ar maos sa stair agus baineann a shaoránaigh an-taitneamh as a iliomad
scéalta a insint, a phlé agus a chur i láthair. Ba bhreá an rud é na mílte a d’fhreastail ar
ócáid mhór Road to the Rising ar Shráid Uí Chonaill ar Luan na Cásca i mbliana, agus bhí
Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath brodúil as tacú leis seo. Agus í ag cur le suim seo
an phobail sa stair, tugann an tríú Féile Staire de chuid Chomhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha
Cliath cuireadh do mhuintir Bhaile Átha Cliath agus do chuairteoirí araon teacht le chéile
le héisteacht le stair na hÉireann agus í a phlé agus taitneamh a bhaint as réimse leathan
téamaí stairiúla i gCaisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath, i mbrainsí leabharlainne na cathrach agus in
ionaid eile.
I mbliana, don chéad uair, beidh clár Páistí ann mar chuid d’imeachtaí na Féile d’fhonn
beocht na staire a chur ar a súile don dream óg. Chomh maith leis sin, tá réimse
iontach ócáidí ag cur na staire i láthair i ngach aon áit sa chathair trí líonra na mbrainsí
leabharlainne. Is áthas liom stair na mban a fheiceáil go sonrach i gclár na bliana seo
freisin ina mbeidh léachtaí faoi ról na mban in 1916, faoin gceardchumannaí Helena
Molony, faoi rannpháirtíocht pholaitiúil na mban agus faoin bpolaitíocht inscne.
Ba mhaith liom rath mór a ghuí ar chainteoirí agus ar lucht eagraithe, féachana agus
éisteachta Fhéile Staire Bhaile Átha Cliath i rith Fhéile na bliana seo, agus molaim
Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath as an bhféile a dhéanamh saor in aisce, inrochtana
agus ar fáil do chách.
Críona Ní Dhálaigh
Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath
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2015
PROGRAMME
What better place for a history festival than the city of Dublin? Its streets broad and narrow
are steeped in history and its citizens take great delight in uncovering, debating and living
its many stories. It was great to see the thousands who attended the Road to the Rising
extravaganza on O’Connell Street on Easter Monday this year which Dublin City Council
was proud to support. Building on this public interest in history, Dublin City Council’s third
Dublin Festival of History invites Dubliners and visitors alike to gather to listen and debate
not only Irish history, but a wide range of historical themes in Dublin Castle, city branch
libraries and other venues.
This year for the first time the Festival features a Children’s programme to bring history to
life for the younger audiences. In addition, a wonderful range of events brings history to
every corner of the city via the branch library network. And I am delighted to see women’s
history featuring strongly in this year’s programme with lectures on women and 1916,
trade unionist Helena Molony, women’s political participation and gender politics.
I wish the organisers, speakers and audiences of the Dublin Festival of History every
success for this year’s Festival and I commend Dublin City Council on making this Festival
free, accessible and open to all.
Críona Ní Dhálaigh
Lord Mayor of Dublin
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The programme for the 2015 Dublin Festival of History is once again packed with interesting
lectures, debate, film and walks providing the history lover with a great array of events to attend.
2015
As the centenary of the 1916 Rising approaches, the festival will open with a panel of Irish historians
reflecting on commemorative events to date, and looking ahead to the plans to mark the centenary
of the Rising. Lectures in the branch libraries take up the 1916 theme with talks on the Pearse
sisters and the women who took part in the rebellion. A particular focus will be on the historic past
of some of Dublin’s civic buildings. We know that the HQ of Dublin City Council Public Libraries
was once the HQ of the 3rd Dublin Brigade (during the War of Independence) and I am particularly
interested in hearing that story at the lecture “The Pearse Street ambush at No. 144: 14 March
1921”.
The very fabric of the city that we live and work in everyday is steeped in history, a history that can
be uncovered in the Dublin and Irish Collections at Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street
where we aim to preserve, share and promote the record of Dublin and Irish heritage and enable
historical research.
This year we are delighted to introduce a Family and children’s programme to the festival. Children’s
Books Ireland has worked with us to produce exciting and creative events ranging from Marita
Conlon-McKenna speaking about the Great Famine to learning how to become your own family
archivist. Children can build a Georgian city, try on historical dress or “Solve the History Mystery” in
branch libraries.
The Dublin Festival of History is a wonderful opportunity for all to listen, participate and engage in
historical debate right in the heart of the city. I invite you to come along and enjoy.
Margaret Hayes
Dublin City Librarian
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WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION
COMMEMORATING 1916
Creative writing workshop with Lia Mills
With Diarmaid Ferriter, Anne Dolan, John A. Murphy &
Eamon Phoenix. Moderator Jane Ohlmeyer
All novels play with time but historical novels do it differently.
History can help you write your story – or it can get in the way.
In this session we’ll talk about how to go back in time to find
a story that matters now. What’s the best way to tell it? We’ll
talk about what brings a story to life in a reader’s mind and
how to do the extra research a historical novel needs to make it
credible. Which matters more, fact or fiction? How far can you
go in one direction or the other?
Lia Mills’s most recent novel is Fallen, set in Dublin during the
early years of the Great War and Easter Week, 1916. She has
written two other novels, Another Alice and Nothing Simple, and
a memoir, In Your Face.
Friday, September 25th at 10.15am in
Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street.
Course fee €25. Please book a place at the workshop at:
In 2011 the Government announced its intention “to properly
commemorate the centenary of the great events of 1916”.
The emphasis on “proper” commemoration suggested a
certain caution about what might be construed as “improper”
appropriation of 1916. Since then the debate has raged on how
to properly celebrate the foundation story of the Irish state with
a broad spectrum of views expressed. Some advocate proud
and unashamed celebration of the sacrifice of the men of 1916;
others counter with concern about the legitimacy of violence and
the need to respect sensitivities towards all-island perspectives.
Consensus, for now, seems a long way off. A distinguished
panel debates the issues.
Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD.
Anne Dolan is a lecturer in Modern Irish History at Trinity
College, Dublin. John A. Murphy is Emeritus Professor of History
at University College Cork. Eamon Phoenix is Principal Lecturer
in History at Stranmillis University College, Queen’s University
Belfast. Jane Ohlymeyer is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of
Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin.
Friday, September 25th at 6.00pm in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
Admission FREE but reservations essential.
To book visit www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie
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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME OR THE GARRISON
GAME? A HISTORY OF LEAGUE OF IRELAND
FOOTBALL
With Donal Fallon, Cormac Moore, Mick Wallace and Brian
Hanley. Chaired by Tommy Graham
This year’s History Ireland Hedge School will focus on a
discussion of the history of League of Ireland football. Why was
it called the ‘garrison game’? What were the circumstances of
the FAI split with the Belfast-based Irish Football Association
in the 1920s? Why are League of Ireland clubs so poorly
supported and resourced? Join Hedge School master, Tommy
Graham, to address these and related questions with the panel:
Mick Wallace (Dáil Eireann TD) and historians Donal Fallon
(Come Here To Me blog), Brian Hanley and Cormac Moore.
Friday, September 25th at 8.00pm in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
Shelbourne FC, c.1965, Courtesy Dublin City Sports Archive at
Dublin City Library & Archive.
BLOODY SUNDAY 1920: THE DAY THAT
SHOOK DUBLIN
With Michael Foley, John Borgonovo and Padraig Yeates
In The Bloodied Field, award-winning journalist and author
Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday,
21st November 1920 in Croke Park, and the 90 seconds of
shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate
portrait he tells the stories of those killed, the police and military
personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left
shattered in its aftermath. Historian John Borgonovo will discuss
the synchronised IRA attack that morning designed to cripple
British intelligence services in Ireland. As fourteen men lay dead
in their beds, trucks of police and military rumbled through the
city streets to Croke Park as hundreds of people clamoured at
the gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Distinguished Dublin
historian Padraig Yeates will moderate the discussion about this
most extraordinary day in Irish history.
A former winner of the Boyle Sports Irish Sportsbook of the Year,
Michael Foley is acting sports editor and GAA correspondent for
the Irish edition of the Sunday Times. John Borgonovo teaches
history at University College Cork and has written extensively on
the Civil War period. Padraig Yeates is a distinguished social and
labour historian and the author of City in Revolution which was
published in 2014.
Saturday, September 26th at 11.00am in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
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BELFAST BOYS: HOW UNIONISTS AND
NATIONALISTS FOUGHT AND DIED
TOGETHER IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
KL: A HISTORY OF THE NAZI CONCENTRATION
CAMPS
Nikolaus Wachsmann in conversation with Robert Gerwarth
Richard Grayson in conversation with John Horne
This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast’s
sectarian divide who went to fight in the Great War. Richard
Grayson follows the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who
fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines, recovering
the history of the forgotten West Belfast servicemen, and the
traumatic lives they endured after the war. In so doing, he tells a
new story which challenges popular perceptions of the war and
explains why remembrance remains so controversial in Belfast
today. September 2015 marks the centenary of the death of
Grayson’s own great-uncle from Lurgan who served and died on
the Western Front in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles.
Richard S. Grayson is Professor of Twentieth Century History
at the University of London. John Horne is Professor of Modern
European History at Trinity College, Dublin.
Saturday, September 26th at 1.00pm in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
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By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had
become an overwhelming landscape of terror in central Europe.
Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps
throughout Germany and Europe were at the heart of the Nazi
campaign of repression and intimidation. Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann
is the first historian to write a complete history of the camps,
examining the organisation of an immense genocidal machine,
whilst drawing a vivid picture of life inside the camps for the
individual prisoner. Wachsmann’s superb book looks set to become
the standard work on one of humankind’s darkest hours.
Nikolaus Wachsmann is Professor of Modern European History in
the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck
College, University of London. Robert Gerwarth is Professor of
Modern History at UCD and Director of the Centre for War Studies.
Castle.
LORD EDWARD & “FAITHFUL TONY”
The story of Tony Small, valet to Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
Stella Tillyard in conversation with Marion Lyons
Citizen Lord is the title of Stella Tillyard’s bestselling biography of
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, one of the most fascinating characters
in Irish history. Tony Small was a runaway American slave who
rescued Lord Edward from the battlefield in South Carolina
in 1781 and nursed him back to health. Lord Edward offered
him a job and for the next decade Tony was with Lord Edward
constantly - in North America, in Paris after the Revolution, in
Dublin and Kildare. At some point after Lord Edward’s death in
1798, Tony left Dublin for London and died there sometime after
1805. What might Tony’s story tell us about colonialism? How
did people of colour and minorities experience Dublin in the late
eighteenth century? What are the implications of Tony’s story for
the writing of history?
Stella Tillyard is an historian and author of several books
including the best-selling Aristocrats. Professor Marion Lyons is
Head of the Department of History in Maynooth University.
Castle.
DYNASTY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE
OF CAESAR
Tom Holland in conversation with Zuleika Rodgers
After conquering the world, the great Roman republic collapsed.
Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the
Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who
could give them peace: Augustus – “The Divinely Favoured One”.
The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has never
faded. Now, in the sequel to Rubicon, Tom Holland gives a dazzling
portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty. Dynasty traces the full story
of Roman rule: its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by
its crimes. It is a world populated by murderers and metrosexuals,
adulterers and druids, scheming grandmothers and reluctant
gladiators. Dynasty is the portrait of a family that transformed and
stupefied Rome.
Tom Holland is one of Britain’s greatest popular historians and
a best-selling author of several works on classical and medieval
history. He is also a novelist and documentary film-maker.
Professor Zuleika Rodgers is Head of the Department of Near &
Middle East Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.
Castle.
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NAPOLEON THE GREAT
Peter Longerich
With Andrew Roberts
Joseph Goebbels was one of Hitler’s most loyal acolytes. But how
did this clubfooted son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to
become Hitler’s minister of propaganda, most trusted lieutenant
and personally anointed successor? In Goebbels, renowned
German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich sifts through the
historical record – and thirty thousand pages of Goebbels’s own
diary entries – to answer that question. Longerich paints a chilling
picture of a man driven by a narcissistic desire for recognition
who found the personal affirmation he craved within the National
Socialist movement – and whose lifelong search for a charismatic
father figure inexorably led him to Hitler. Longerich’s Goebbels
is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the
Holocaust for decades to come.
Andrew Roberts’ Napoleon the Great is the definitive modern
biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the space of just twenty
years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain
he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final
defeat at the battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon
transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup
d’etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which
the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he
reinvented the art of warfare. In peace he completely remade
the laws of France and modernized systems of education and
administration. Napoleon is often portrayed as a despot but,
Andrew Roberts conveys his tremendous energy, both physical
and intellectual, and the attractiveness of his personality, even to
his enemies.
Peter Longerich is Professor of Modern German History at Royal
Holloway University of London, and founder of Royal Holloway’s
Holocaust Research Centre.
Sunday, September 27th at 12.00 noon in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
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Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international
renown and a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and
Arts. His three-part series on Napoleon aired on BBC TV this
Summer.
Sunday, September 27th at 2.00pm in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
photo courtesy of Nancy Ellison
JOSEPH GOEBBELS: HITLER’S MESSENGER
THE SILK ROADS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE
WORLD
FASCINATING FOOTNOTES FROM HISTORY
With Giles Milton
Peter Frankopan in conversation with David McWilliams
For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west, in
the New World of the Americas. Today, the east is taking centre
stage in international politics, commerce and culture, shaping
the modern world. This region, the true centre of the earth, is
obscure to many in the west and yet this is where civilization
itself began, where the world’s great religions were born and
took root. The Silk Roads linked continents and oceans together.
Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was
where empires were won – and where they were lost. As a new
era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that
have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising
again.
Dr. Peter Frankopane is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester
College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine
Research. David McWilliams is an economist, author and
broadcaster.
Sunday, September 27th at 4.00pm in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
Did you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin robbed a
bank? Were you aware that Agatha Christie went missing for
eleven days? That Charlie Chaplin’s corpse was filched and
held to ransom? Or that Churchill slaughtered sheep? Do you
know who really killed Rasputin? Fascinating Footnotes From
History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets;
extraordinary stories that read like fiction but are one hundred
per cent fact. Peopled with a gallery of spies, rogues, cannibals,
adventurers and slaves, and spanning twenty centuries and six
continents, the book sheds light on some of the most infamous
stories and most flamboyant and colourful characters from
history.
Giles Milton is a writer and historian. He is the internationally
bestselling author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth,
The Riddle and the Knight, White Gold, Samurai William,
Paradise Lost, Wolfram and Russian Roulette.
Sunday, September 27th at 6pm in Printworks, Dublin
Castle.
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With Peter Snow
Well-known military historian, journalist and broadcaster Peter
Snow tells the story of one of the world’s most famous and
important battles; the Battle of Waterloo. Snow examines the
strengths and weaknesses of the leaders, the armies and their
weapons. Like all the greatest battles, Waterloo is steeped in
controversy—the battle ended in decisive victory, but it might
so easily have turned out differently. Snow explores all the
questions the battle raised. Who made mistakes? Whose victory
really was it? Would Wellington have won without Blücher and
his Prussians? What was the main cause of the French defeat?
200 years on, relive one of the great battles in history with Peter
Snow.
Peter Snow was born in Harcourt Street, Dublin. In 1963 he
began presenting and reporting the ITN News and later became
the main presenter of BBC’s Newsnight. Lately he has continued
a career in television and writing.
Wednesday, September 30th at 7.30pm in venue
to be confirmed.
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photo courtesy of Neil SPence
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO EXPERIENCE
DUBLIN FESTIVAL OF HISTORY PROGRAMME 2015
TALKS
Please book by contacting:
28 September
at 1.10pm
Shane Kenna
The life and afterlife of
Jeremiah O’Donovan
Rossa: a study in
dissension
28th September
at 1.10pm
Rob Goodbody
Physical growth to
economic decline: Dublin
in the 18th and 19th
century
28th September
at 6.30pm
Damien Burke
Fr Michael Morrison
SJ and the liberation
of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp
28th September
at 6.30pm
Jennifer Redmond
Sexual politics and
emigrant bodies in
twentieth-century Ireland
28th September
at 6.30pm
Juliana Adelman &
Catherine Cleary
Dublin’s hidden kitchens:
food and social history in
manuscript recipe books
29 th September
at 1.10pm
Grace Ries
The Sinking of the SS
Arandora Star (2nd
July 1940): Conflicting
patterns of remembrance
29 th September
at 6.30pm
Las Fallon
Guns and Hoses: the
Dublin Fire Brigade
1916-23
th
Shane Kenna holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin.
He has published biographies of O’Donovan Rossa and
Thomas MacDonagh in addition to histories of the Irish
Republican Brotherhood.
No booking required. All welcome on a first
come first served basis.
Central Library, ILAC Centre
Rob Goodbody is an historic building consultant and
building historian. He received the Industrial Heritage
Association of Ireland’s medal for his publications, which
include the Royal Irish Academy’s recent Irish Historic
Towns Atlas, no. 26, Dublin, part III, 1756 to 1847.
Cabra Library
Damien Burke is the Assistant Archivist at the Irish Jesuit
Archives and edited Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First
World War, Messenger Publications (2014).
cabralibrary@dublincity.ie
8691414
Jennifer Redmond is a lecturer in twentieth-century Irish
history at Maynooth University. She is the President of
the Women’s History Association of Ireland. Her latest
book, Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland (co-edited), was
published by Irish Academic Press (2015).
terenurelibrary@dublincity.ie
4907035
Juliana Adelman is a lecturer in history at St Patrick’s
College Drumcondra. She is, with Catherine Cleary, the
co-presenter/writer of the radio series “History on a plate”
(RTÉ Radio 1). Catherine Cleary is an award winning
journalist who has been writing about food for over a
decade and writes a weekly restaurant column for the
Irish Times.
inchicorelibrary@dublincity.ie
4533793
Grace is studying for an M.Phil in Public History and
Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin, having
previously studied Medieval History at the University of
East Anglia in the UK. She is particularly interested in
collective memory and the politics of commemoration.
come first served basis
Las Fallon is an operational firefighter with over 27 years
service in the fire brigade. He was the curator of the
Dublin Fire Brigade Museum from 2008-2011 and is
the author of Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution
(2012).
coolocklibrary@dublincity.ie
8477781
City Hall
Terenure Library
Inchicore Library
Dublin City Library & Archive
Coolock
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TALKS
12
29 September
at 6.30pm
Peter Costello
The Municipal Joyce:
James Joyce and the City
Corporation
Mansion
House
Peter Costello is a writer, critic and editor, who also acts
as Honorary Librarian of the Central Catholic Library in
Dublin. He is the author of over 30 books, most recently
Conan Doyle Detective which has been translated into
French and Spanish.
lordmayor@dublincity.ie
2226200
30 th September
at 11.00am
Brendan
MacQuaile
March Away my Brothers:
music and stories of
Irishmen in the trenches
Raheny Library
Brendan MacQuaile is a classically trained baritone who
has performed widely in Ireland and abroad. His book
March Away My Brothers (2011) is a reflection on the lives
and music of Irish men who served in the First World War.
rahenylibrary@dublincity.ie
8315521
30 th September
at 6.30pm
Mary-Louise
O’Donnell
Sisters of the
Revolutionaries: Margaret
and Mary Brigid Pearse
Rathmines Library
Mary-Louise O’Donnell holds a doctorate from the
University of Limerick and is the author of Ireland’s Harp:
the Shaping of Irish Identity c.1770 to 1880, UCD Press
(2014). She is a renowned harpist and has given lectures
and recitals throughout Europe and North America.
rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie
4973539
30 th September
at 6.30pm
Nell Regan
Keeping the Spirit Alive:
Helena Molony and
commemorating the
Rising
Finglas Library
Nell Regan is an award-winning poet and her biography
of Helena Molony was published in Female Activists, Irish
Women and Change, Eds. Mary Cullen and Maria Luddy
(2001).
finglaslibrary@dublincity.ie
8344906
30 th September
at 7.00pm
Henrietta
McKervey
What Becomes of Us
Inchicore Library
Henrietta McKervey won this year’s Hennessy First Fiction
Award. Her first novel What Becomes Of Us is set in RTE
in the 1960s as it prepares its coverage of the fiftieth
anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Henrietta will discuss her
research and writing and read from the book.
inchicorelibrary@dublincity.ie
4533793
1st October
at 6.30pm
Claire McGing
Republicans and
Widows: Women’s
political participation and
representation in Ireland,
1918-1973
Donaghmede Library
Claire McGing is based in the Department of Geography,
Maynooth University. Her research focuses on women
in Irish politics, north and south and she is currently
researching a monograph on the eleven widows elected to
Dáil Éireann between 1923 and 1977.
donaghmedelibrary@dublincity.ie
1st October
at 6.30pm
Conor McNamara
Under the Starry Plough:
Labour and Easter Week
1916
Ballyfermot Library
Dr Conor McNamara is currently the NUI Galway, 1916
Scholar in Residence and has published extensively on the
history of the Irish Revolution. This lecture is in response
to the extensive range of books on Irish history and labour
in the Sé Geraghty Collection in Ballyfermot Library.
ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie
6269325
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8482833
TALKS
1 October
at 7.45pm
st
2nd October
at 1.10pm
John Dorney
3rd October
at 10am 12.30pm
Dublin in 1890 - when
Bohemians were born
Dalymount Park (Member’s Bar),
Phibsboro
Panel discussion chaired by Tommy Graham (editor,
History Ireland), with Donal Fallon (Come Here To Me
blog), Dr Ciaran Priestley (Bohemian FC), Dr David
Dickson (TCD) and Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD).
Tickets €5 from Bohemian FC office at
Dalymount Park and
www.shop-bohemianfc.com
The Pearse Street
ambush at No. 144:
14 March 1921
Pearse St Library
John Dorney is the editor and main contributor to the Irish
Story history website and co-host of “The Irish History
Show” on Near FM. He is currently working on a history of
the Irish Civil War in Dublin 1922-23, due to be published
by Merrion Press in 2016.
Easter Week
Remembered – a preview
of the forthcoming
exhibition at National
Museum of Ireland,
Collins Barracks
National Museum of Ireland Decorative Arts
& History, Collins
Barracks
Join Museum curators Sandra Heise and Lar Joye and
researchers Brenda Malone, Darragh Gannon and Conor
Morrissey for presentations on the themes and artefacts
of the new exhibition on the 1916 Rising, due to open at
Collins Barracks in February 2016. Includes talk by Lar
Joye “Flags Unfurled: the national flag collection and
1916”.
Free admission , please book at
bookings@museum.ie
www.museum.ie
3rd October
at 12pm
Jason McElligott
and Paul Murray
Puritanism, William
of Orange and Bram
Stoker’s Dracula
Council Chamber,
City Hall
Bram Stoker visited Marsh’s Library several times in
1866/7. Newly-discovered documents reveal what he
consulted on his visits and shed important light on the
preoccupations and interests of the young Stoker. Paul
Murray is the author of From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life
of Bram Stoker (2004). Dr Jason McElligott is The Keeper
of Marsh’s Library, Dublin.
5th October
at 7.00pm
Joe Duignan
Irish Doctors in the First
World War
Walkinstown Library
Joe Duignan is a retired surgeon and former Council
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He
has lectured on the nature and treatment of wounds and
diseases of past military campaigns from the Crimea to
World War Two and on the medical advances during this
period.
walkinstownlibrary@dublincity.ie
4558159
5th October
at 6.30pm
Philip Lecane
Beneath a Turkish Sky:
The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
and the assault on
Gallipoli
Ballymun Library
A committee member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Association, Philip Lecane has written many articles on
the Irish in World War 1 and on local history. His book
Torpedoed! The R.M.S. Leinster Disaster (2005), tells the
story of the Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead mail boat, sunk by
a German submarine in the Irish Sea in 1918.
ballymunlibrary@dublincity.ie
8421890
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TALKS
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6 October
at 6.30pm
Lisa-Marie Griffith
Henry Gore Sankey:
Portrait of a perfect Lord
Mayor 1791-2
Mansion House
Dr Lisa-Marie Griffith is project manager on RSS updates
for Dublin City University. Along with Dr Ruth McManus,
she was contributing editor of Leaders of the City: Dublin’s
first citizens, 1500-1950 (2013).
lordmayor@dublincity.ie
2226200
6th October
at 11.00am
Ben Fagan
Stories from behind the
camera: Filming the Irish
Revolution 1916-22
Charleville Mall Library
Ben Fagan is a historical writer, researcher and
photographer based in Co. Wicklow. His current project is
to create a photo record of the 2016 commemorations.
6th October
at 6.30pm
Neil Richardson
Irishmen in the British
Army, Dublin Easter 1916
Drumcondra Library
Neil Richardson is the author of the award-winning A
Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall: Stories of Irishmen in
WW1. He is the in-house historian at the Irish Military War
Museum in Co. Meath, and his latest book is According to
Their Lights: Stories of Irishmen in the British Army, Easter
1916.
drumcondralibrary@dublincity.ie
8377206
6th October
at 6.30pm
Sarah Hunter
The Dublin University
Mission: an Irish Christian
mission in imperial India
Pembroke Library
Sarah Hunter completed her BA and MA at Queen’s
University, Belfast and is currently a final year PhD student
in the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin.
Her PhD thesis examines the impact of Irish medical
missionaries working among Indian women in British
Bengal, 1885-1930.
pembrokelibrary@dublincity.ie
6689575
7th October
at 6.30pm
Patrick Walsh
Ireland and the first global
financial crisis: the Irish
experience of the South
Sea Bubble of 1720
Phibsborough Library
Dr Patrick Walsh is a Research Fellow in the School of
History at University College Dublin. He is the author of
The South Sea Bubble and Ireland, Money, Banking and
Investment, 1690-1721 (2014).
phibsborolibrary@dublincity.ie
8304341
7th October
at 6.30pm
Fergus Dowd, Alan
McLean, Maureen
O’Sullivan, Brian
Kerr and Peter
Byrne
Patrick “Don Patricio”
O’Connell: the Dubliner
who saved FC Barcelona
Marino Library
Patrick “Don Patricio” O’ Connell (1887-1959), Irish
footballer and manager from Drumcondra, played for
renowned teams such as Belfast Celtic, Hull City and
Manchester United. In Spain in the 1930s he managed
Real Betis and FC Barcelona, saving the Barcelona club
from bankruptcy. Despite reaching such high levels of
success, Patrick died destitute and anonymous in London.
marinolibrary@dublincity.ie
8336297
7th October
at 7.00pm
Marguerite
Helmers
Harry Clarke’s illustrations
for Ireland’s Memorial
Records: Commemorating
Irish soldiers who died in
World War 1
Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane
Marguerite Helmers is Rosebush Professor of English at
the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She specialises in
word and image relationships, particularly relating to 20th
century Ireland and England. Her book Harry Clarke’s War:
Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 will be published
by the Irish Academic Press in September 2015.
7th October
at 7.00pm
Anne-Marie
McInerney
Internment in Dublin
during the Irish Civil War
1922 - 3
Walkinstown LIbrary Anne-Maire has recently finished her PhD in Modern
Irish History in Trinity College, Dublin. She has previously
worked as a researcher and teaching assistant and
presently works for Dublin City Public Libraries.
walkinstownlibrary@dublincity.ie
4558159
th
TALKS
8 October
at 6.30pm
Liz Gillis, Mary
McAuliffe and
Éadaoin Ní
Chléirigh
Women and the Easter
Rising: accompanied
by a talk on the redevelopment of Richmond
Barracks
Ballyfermot Library
Richmond Barracks is one of the State’s seven 2016
‘Permanent Reminder’ projects opening in May 2016.
Éadaoin Ní Chléirigh is the Executive Chair of the project.
Liz Gillis is a tour guide in Kilmainham Gaol and Dr Mary
McAuliffe is a lecturer in Women’s Studies in UCD.
ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie
6269325
8th October
at 6.30pm
Cecelia Hartsell
Blood Sacrifice:
comparing the political
struggles of Irish
Nationalists and African
Americans during World
War 1.
Rathmines Library Cecelia Hartsell is a researcher of American history,
specialising in twentieth-century war and society. She is
a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and is completing
her doctorate in American History at Fordham University
in New York City.
rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie
4973539
The Great War Signal
Corps
The Riding School at Collins Barracks The Great War Signal Corps is a musical composition
for four voices, keyboard and analogue electronics.
Performed in a minimalist dramatic setting, this exciting
new piece explores the First World War from an Irish
perspective using a text sourced from archival material in
the National Library and Museum.
For information and booking contact
Anna Murray 086 0816677
th
Thursday 8th –
Saturday 10 th
October at 8pm
Composed and written by George Higgs
Voices: Tonnta Music, directed by Robbie Blake
Keyboard: David Bremner
Drama and electronics performed by members of Dublin
Youth Theatre and the composer.
10 th October
at 3.00pm
Steven O’Connor
Revolutionaries in
Khaki: Irish Great War
veterans in the War of
Independence
Raheny Library Dr Steven O’ Connor is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Irish
History at Trinity College, Dublin. He holds a PhD from
UCD and his first book, Irish Officers in the British Forces,
1922-45, was published in 2014.
rahenylibrary@dublincity.ie
8315521
27th September
& 11th October
at 2.00pm
Tour of Grangegorman
Military Cemetery
Grangegorman, Military Cemetery,
Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7
Phoenix Park tour guides will unlock this hidden history
site, the final resting place of British soldiers killed in 1916
Rising and those who lost their lives on the RMS Leinster.
Booking required. Meet at the cemetery gates.
01-6770095
3rd October
at 11.00am
Tour of Bohemian FC
graves at Glasnevin
Cemetery
Glasnevin Cemetery
Club historians will lead a tour of graves of Bohemian
players, officials and others associated with the club.
These include a confidant of Michael Collins in the IRA,
an Irish Parliamentary Party MP whose two sons were
Bohemian captains, ‘Tod’ Andrews’ brother, and the
only player to die of injuries received while playing for
Bohemians.
Tickets €5 from Bohemian FC office at
Dalymount Park and
www.shop-bohemianfc.com
Walks
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TALKS
Films
3rd October
at 2.00pm
Colin Farrell &
Dave Farrell
7th October at 2.00pm
8th October at 5.30pm
‘Doc Spot’ A Terrible
Beauty: The challenges
of making historical
documentaries in Ireland.
Includes screening of the
docu-drama A Terrible
Beauty (93 minutes)
Dublin City Library & Archive
Colin has worked in a variety of roles, both in front and
behind the camera. He is currently working as Creative
Director for multimedia company Tile Media, he heads
up the team behind the ‘Stories from 1916’ project. Dave
produced many award-winning history documentaries
during his long career with Tile Films. In his role as
Producer with Tile Media, he is currently developing a
variety of history-based TV and film projects.
come first served basis
Pearse Street Library Film Club will show history films
Exhibitions - Printworks foyer Dublin Castle
25th - 27th
September
8th October
6.30pm
Fragments: Stories from Gallipoli
A powerful exhibition marking the centenary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landings
at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, this exhibition consists of personal diaries, photographs and
letters from Irish-born soldiers who served in Gallipoli. Developed by Dublin City Public Libraries
Service, the exhibition draws mainly on sources from the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association Archive
held at Dublin City Library and Archive.
Canakkale: Road to Peace out of War
A photographic exhibition which has been funded by the Turkish Embassy in Ireland in remembrance
of the gallantry and friendship that flourished on Turkish land. It reflects not only the military aspect
of the Battle of Çanakkale in 1915 but also the humane relationship between the soldiers on both
warring fronts.
Liam Breen
Development of schools for the Deaf in Cabra from 1846. Liam Breen, Chairperson of Deaf Heritage
Centre, will discuss his research on the early development of Deaf schools in Cabra. Liam is qualified
archivist and curator. ISL interpretation provided.
Cabra Library
FOOD
Relax between lectures with refreshments in local cafes offering the following special deals to festival goers during the Dublin Castle weekend:
Silk Road Café, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, 20% discount
Tír na Nóg Caife, City Hall, buy one get one free on teas/coffees
FESTIVAL GOERS ...
Enjoy free entry to ‘The Story of the Capital’ Exhibition in City Hall
Avail of special concession rate of €3 for entry to Dublin Castle State Apartments and Medieval Undercroft
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Please book at:
cabralibrary@dublincity.ie
8691414
FAMILY AND CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME
DUBLIN HISTORY TRAIL FOR
FAMILIES!
DRESSING FOR HISTORY
Saturday 26th September and Sunday 27th
September - available 11.00am - 6.00pm
A self-led history hunt for all the family, beginning
at Dublin Castle where you can collect your maps
and clues from Printworks. Follow the clues to
find out more about life in Dublin through the
ages and discover a new side to your city!
No booking required, suitable for all ages.
‘A CHILD’S VIEW OF DUBLIN LIFE
THROUGH THE AGES’
Sunday 27th September 12.30pm - 1.30pm
and 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Join this hour long, family walking tour outside
Printworks, Dublin Castle.
Suitable for ages 6+.
POP-UP MUSEUM FROM
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND
- DECORATIVE ARTS & HISTORY,
COLLINS BARRACKS
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September
1.00pm - 4.00pm in Printworks, Dublin Castle
Drop in and explore some of the artefacts from
the Museum’s collection of objects for handling
with Museum educators. A fascinating, drop-in
handling session for all ages.
Saturday 26th September 11.30am - 12.30pm
in the Vaults at City Hall
Style has changed drastically over the years and
changing fashions reveal a lot about an historical
period. Join clothing historian Laura Thorp to
find an historical costume from the 19th century
that appeals to you and write a story around the
character this costume evokes.
Free entry to City Hall exhibitions with Festival
brochure or Dublin History Trail.
Suitable for ages 7+
Please note: Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian for all events.
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BUILD GEORGIAN DUBLIN
GEORGIAN DECORATIONS WITH
CRAFTS2CHERISH
Saturday 26th September 11.30am - 1.30pm
in the Upper Yard at Dublin Castle (or
Printworks,weather dependent)
Bring the whole family along to join picturebook
creator Chris Judge in creating a mini, cardboard
version of Georgian Dublin. Step back in time
by creating and walking through Dublin of the
1700s and 1800s. In partnership with Ballyfermot
College of Further Education.
Suitable for all ages.
also available to walk-ups.
THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE
Saturday 26th September 1.30pm - 3.30pm in
Chester Beatty Library
Join Suzanna from Crafts2Cherish and create
your own decorative panel. Participants will learn
how to make a simple wall plaque inspired by
Georgian architecture, using quick air dry clay.
Suitable for ages 6 – 11.
Booking essential via www.cbl.ie
Saturday 26th September 2.00pm - 3.30pm in
the Poddle Room, Printworks, Dublin Castle
To mark 170 years since the beginning of the
Great Famine, join Marita Conlon-McKenna
(Under the Hawthorn Tree, Wildflower Girl, Fields
of Home) to find out more about the great hunger
and the Irish diaspora abroad.
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IS YOUR LIFE WORTH FIGHTING
FOR?
Sunday 27th September 11.30am - 1.00pm in
the Poddle Room, Printworks, Dublin Castle
Join Claire Hennessy, author of Seeds of Freedom
and travel with her to the Boston Tea Party, the
French Revolution and the Wexford Rebellion
to find out what its like to be a child fighting for
freedom.
FILL A VIKING SHIP
DROP IN DRAWING WITH ROXANA
MANOUCHEHRI: GEORGIAN
MOTIFS
Sunday 27th September 1.00pm - 3.00pm at
Dublinia
Sunday 27th September 1.00pm - 3.00pm at
Chester Beatty Library
Join award winning illustrator and designer Mark
Wickham and help him fill a Viking ship full of
fearsome Viking warriors.
Meet artist Roxana Manouchehri and learn
drawing techniques including line, shading and
decorations. This relaxed and informal session
will explore Georgian motifs.
€1 off Dublinia admission price with Festival
brochure or Dublin History Trail.
No booking required.
Suitable for teens and adults; all levels of
experience welcome. Free, no booking required.
Materials provided, but please feel free to bring
your own sketch book.
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I AM THE FAMILY ARCHIVIST!
SOLVE THE HISTORY MYSTERY
Image courtesy of Frank Miller, Irish Times
Sunday 27th September 3.00pm - 4.30pm in
Courtyard Room 1, Printworks, Dublin Castle
Bring your family to meet curator Bernadette
Larkin and create your own time capsule
capturing your experiences of everyday life in
Dublin in 2015. Bring along one or more items
that represent your life, for example a photograph
or your favourite book. Leave with some tips to
help you become your own family’s archivist!
Suitable for families with children ages 6+
The Family and Children’s Programme for the
Dublin Festival of History has been curated by
Children’s Books Ireland.
Cabra Library, Thursday 1st October,
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Rathmines Library, Tuesday 6th October,
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Become a history detective in a drop-in workshop
for families, exploring all kinds of fascinating
objects with educators from the National Museum
at Collins Barracks. No booking required.
Suitable for families with children aged 7 – 11
years.
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NOTES
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Cuimhnímis ar Éirí
Amach na Cásca i
mBaile Átha Cliath
Dublin Remembers
the 1916 Rising
For 2016 Dublin City Council presents
lectures, exhibitions, artistic works,
digitised documents, walks, drama and
much more to remember the 1916 Rising
in the capital.
Keep informed of centenary events
by signing up for the mailing list at:
www.dublincity.ie/decadeofcommemorations
www.richmondbarracks.ie
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