To Speak of Easter Week – Part 2

Day	Time	Place	Speaker
28^TH MARCH \| EASTER MONDAY	13:00 - 14:00	DIT Aungier Street	Helene O’Keeffe Maurice O'Keeffe

DIT Level 2: Room 2-020

“They were anxious for demonstration, a demonstration in blood” – Bulmer Hobson

The 1916 Rising Oral History Collection: Part 2 will be a joint presentation by Maurice O’Keeffe and Dr Helene O’Keeffe on the Kimmage and the Four Courts Garrisons and on the St. Enda’s Boys. The taking up of positions at the various outposts around the city and the battles that ensued. Sound clips and historical images will be used.

Maurice O’Keeffe, curator of Recollections of 1916 and its Aftermath, along with Helene O’Keeffe, present talks and audio visual selections from the Family Memories Collection. Maurice and Jane O’Keeffe are editors of Irish Life and Lore 1916 Oral History Collection

Photograph courtesy of the Capuchin Archive

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