Trinity Comprehensive School Tour
Collins Barracks – Trinity Comprehensive School Experience the story of 1916 come to life before your very eyes. Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun Dublin, recreate...
11:00 - 16:00
Life in 1916
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100 Years of Weddings
Buswells Hotel, The Meeting Room Irish Destinies – fifty years of trust in the Irish Nation – wedding photographs from the period 1916-1966 by...
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A Brush With Irish History (1913-1925): The Artistic Response
The RHA Gallery This talk examines how painters such as Jack B. Yeats, Sean Keating, John Lavery, Kathleen Fox and others represented the Rising...
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1916 Sackville Street Art Project
There were more civilians killed during the 1916 Easter Rising than British Soldiers or Irish Volunteers. These 262 men, women and children who were...
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Hodges Figgis
Hodges Figgis is delighted to have the Author of “Courage Boys we are Winning” – Michael Barry- present an illustrated slide-show on the major...
13:00 - 14:00
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“I Was There”: What’s in the RTÉ Archives?
Generator Hostel Introduced by Taragh Loughrey Grant Over many years, RTÉ Radio and Television recorded the recollections of participants and witnesses to the events...
13:00 - 14:00
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association Walking Tour
Collins Barracks (Front Arch Assembly.) ‘Fall the men in – there is trouble at the Castle!’ It was a normal working day for the...
14:30 - 0:00
Dublin Restaurants Before 1916
DIT, Room G-018 Dr. Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire , Chef, Food Historian and Lecturer in Culinary Arts DIT, Cathal Brugha Street. Photograph...
17:00 - 17:30
Walls Do Talk
DIT, Room G-020 A description of what happened during the Easter rising in the buildings and surrounding areas used by the Dublin Institute of...
17:00 - 17:30
1916, The First Casualties
DIT, Room G-022 The First Casualties of 1916 preceded Easter Monday and occurred a long way from the centre of action in Dublin. A...
15:30 - 16:00
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Impact of the Rising on the Civilian population during and after 1916
DIT, Room G-020 This talk will focus on the devastating effects that the Rising had on the civil non-combatant population of Dublin from 24...
15:00 - 15:30
1916, The First Casualties
DIT, Room G-022 The First Casualties of 1916 preceded Easter Monday and occurred a long way from the centre of action in Dublin. A...
14:30 - 15:00
Walls Do Talk
DIT, Room G-020 A description of what happened during the Easter rising in the buildings and surrounding areas used by the Dublin Institute of...
16:00 - 16:30
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Impact of the Rising on the Civilian population during and after 1916
DIT, Room G-020 This talk will focus on the devastating effects that the Rising had on the civil non-combatant population of Dublin from 24...
14:00 - 14:30
Dublin Restaurants Before 1916
DIT, Room G-018 Dr. Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire , Chef, Food Historian and Lecturer in Culinary Arts DIT, Cathal Brugha Street. Photograph...
16:00 - 16:30
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A Terrible Beauty is Born…
DIT, Room G-018 MacDonagh and MacBride…Maire Ni Shiulbhaigh, Michael O’Hanrahan, Peadar Kearney. This paper tells the story of Easter Week 1916 at the Jacob’s...
14:00 - 14:30
Inspiring Ireland 1916 Exhibition
Royal Irish Academy, Reading Room As part of ‘Reflecting the Rising’, the Digital Repository of Ireland invites members of the public to enjoy ‘pop-up’ talks...
12:00 - 16:00
Life in 1916 Ireland – Stories and Statistics
Generator Hostel Introduced by Tracey Clifford We searched for statistics to illustrate what life was like for people living 100 years ago and compared...
17:00 - 18:00
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Birth, Life and Death in 1916
Mansion House, Round Room Introduced by Bryan Dobson, Newscaster, RTÉ We Could Be Heroes Music and singing is at the core of this piece,...
11:00 - 13:00
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The State of the Arts in 1916 / A Fuzzy Mixture of Accident and Design: The Production and Printing of the Easter Proclamation
RIA, Council & Members Room Introduced by Della Kilroy The State of the Arts in 1916 Revolutionary in practice and in philosophy. Barbara Dawson, Director...
16:00 - 17:30
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Legion of the Excluded: What the 1916 Rebels Wore / Kilmainham Gaol Graffiti
RIA, Council & Members Room Introduced by Evelyn Cusack Legion of the Excluded: What the 1916 Rebels Wore What the 1916 rebels wore reflected the chaotic...
11:00 - 12:30
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Letters of 1916: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times
RIA Lecture Hall Introduced by Avril Hoare Letters of 1916 is a new online database that provides unprecedented access to the private thoughts, dreams,...
17:00 - 18:00
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The Rising through Objects: The Material Culture of the Easter Rising
RIA Lecture Hall Introduced by Avril Hoare The Rising through Objects: The Material Culture of the Easter Rising This talk explores the material culture...
14:30 - 15:30
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The Stephen’s Green Trenches: A Challenge to Middle Class Social Norms / Unearthing Ireland’s Revolutionary Wars – Examining the Archaeological Evidence
The RCSI, Heuston Lecture Theatre (Entrance via York Street) Introduced by Helen Donohue The Stephen’s Green Trenches: A Challenge to Middle Class Social Norms This talk...
14:30 - 16:00
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The Women of the College of Surgeons Garrison / To Surgeons and Beyond! RCSI, Rebels and the Republic
The RCSI, O’Flanagan Lecture Theatre (Entrance via York Street) Introduced by Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, RTE Broadcaster The Women of the College of Surgeons Garrison Approximately 30...
14:30 - 15:45
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Trauma, Shock, Resilience: The Psychological Impact of the 1916 Rising in Dublin
The RCPI, Lecture Hall Introduced by Mary Calpin, RTÉ Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin. Fellow of Royal College of Physicians Ireland....
14:00 - 14:30
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Insanity and Insurrection: Mental Illness in 1916 Ireland
The RCPI, Lecture Hall Introduced by Mary Calpin, RTÉ A discussion on mental illness in 1916 Ireland. Alice Mauger, Historian of Medicine. Please...
12:00 - 13:00
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Easter Rising, Science Falling: How the Rising Negatively Affected Irish Science
The RCPI, The Winter Hall Introduced by Susan Jackson, Newscaster, RTÉ Following the Easter Rising in 1916, the War of Independence which followed, and...
17:00 - 18:00
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1916 and the Richmond Asylum / Treating the Wounded During Easter Week
The RCPI, Dun Library Introduced by Fergal Bowers, Health Correspondent, RTÉ 1916 and the Richmond Asylum Exploring how the Rising affected the large asylum...
16:00 - 17:30
A Sinister and Hateful Memory: The 1916 Rising Through the Eyes of Protestants in Dublin
Trinity College, JM Synge Theatre Introduced by Richard Downes, RTÉ Dublin Protestants and their institutions – the churches, their clubs, their clerics, their newspapers...
17:00 - 18:00
Speaking Forever: The Abbey Rebels / Representing the Rising: The Visual Arts in 1916
The Gresham, O’Connell Suite Introduced by Dr. Gavin Jennings, RTÉ Speaking Forever: The Abbey Rebels Author Fearghal McGarry considers the Abbey rebels’ memories of the...
15:00 - 16:30
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association Walking Tour
Collins Barracks (Front Arch Assembly.) ‘Fall the men in – there is trouble at the Castle!’ It was a normal working day for the...
11:30 - 12:15
Foundations and Reflections: Narratives of the Easter Rising
Trinity College Chapel Introduced by Flor Mac Carthy, RTÉ Reflecting the Rising Presented by Trinity Literary Society this talk, given by staff and students,...
11:00 - 12:00
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Dublin, Easter 1916: What Was it Like?
Trinity College, Thomas Davis Theatre Introduced by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, RTÉ History Ireland Hedge School. Host: Tommy Graham, Editor, History Ireland Dr John...
17:00 - 18:00
Fighting at the South Dublin Union
Trinity College, Jonathan Swift Theatre Introduced by Paul Cunningham, RTÉ Professor Davis Coakley, Faculty of Health Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Photograph courtesy of the...
17:00 - 18:00
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Guinness and 1916
Trinity College, Jonathan Swift Theatre Introduced by Paul Cunningham, RTÉ Guinness Archivist, Eibhlin Colgan, provides an illustrated history of the impact of the events...
15:00 - 15:30
“The troop train arriving at platform one”: The Railways and the Rising
Trinity College, Jonathan Swift Theatre Introduced by Paul Cunningham, RTÉ By teatime on Easter Monday, several thousand British troops had arrived in Dublin by...
13:00 - 13:45
Protestant Rebels in 1916
Trinity College, Robert Emmet Theatre Introduced by Brian Dowling, RTÉ Historical, literary and journalistic accounts of the Easter Rising frequently give the impression that...
15:15 - 16:00
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Going to the Pictures / Film and the Irish Revolution
Trinity College, Máirtín Ó Cadhain Theatre Introduced by Emma McNamara Going to the Pictures By Easter 1916, Dubliners were in the grip of a...
11:00 - 12:30
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The Story of The City’s Trams with Film
Generator Hostel From the commencement of the horse trams in 1872, to their closure in 1949 – John Kelleher, Chair of the Transport Museum...
15:00 - 16:00
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“I Was There”: What’s in the RTÉ Archives?
Generator Hostel Introduced by Taragh Loughrey Grant Over many years, RTÉ Radio and Television recorded the recollections of participants and witnesses to the events...
11:00 - 12:00
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Reassessing the military achievements of the 1916 Rebels
Collins Barracks, A/V Room Introduced by Maire Treasa ni Cheallaigh Conor Mulvagh, University College Dublin. Photograph courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland
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The Sherwood Foresters: From Dún Laoghaire to Mount Street Bridge.
Collins Barracks, A/V Room Introduced by Maire Treasa ni Cheallaigh Military Historian and Retired Army Officer, Billy Campbell, on the Sherwood Foresters and the...
15:30 - 16:30
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Frongoch 1916/2016: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Internment
Collins Barracks, A/V Room Introduced by Maire Treasa ni Cheallaigh In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, some 1800 Irish men were interned at Frongoch...
11:00
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British Troops in Dublin during Easter Week / 1916 in the Midlands / The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland
Collins Barracks, The Palatine Room. Introduced by John Murray, RTÉ Presenter British Troops in Dublin during Easter Week By the end of Easter Week...
11:00 - 13:00
“The Vertigo of Self-Sacrifice”: The Abbey Theatre and Easter 1916
The Abbey Theatre, Stage Join historian Fearghal McGarry for a lecture on the role of the Abbey Rebels and the wider impact of Easter...
12:00 - 13:00
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1916: A Suite of Songs / Organ Recital / Talk: The Big House from Rebellion to Truce, 1916-1921
St. Ann’s Church Introduced by Aidan Matthews The Ranelagh and Charles Marshall The events at St. Ann Church will begin with ‘A Suite of...
11:30 - 12:45
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An Afternoon at The Shelbourne
The Shelbourne Hotel Ballroom Introduced by Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy, RTÉ Eating Out – 1916 Restaurants & Taking Afternoon Tea Máirtin Mac ConIomaire...
14:00 - 18:00
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Old Hannah / Firefighters in time of war: The Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution
Smithfield Square, The Cobblestone Old Hannah Foursome schooled in folk, country and roots music, hailing from Sligo. Firefighters in time of war: The...
11:00 - 12:30
A Poet’s Revolt / The Rising: One Hundred Years After / Choral Music
St Michan’s Church, Church St Hosted by Aengus MacGrianna, News Reader, RTÉ A Poet’s Revolt? Literature and the I916 Rising Poetry and theatre played...
15:00 - 17:00
A Celebration in Song / A Challenge to Conscience and Courage / Identity: How We Know Who We Are
St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street Introduced by Eileen Dunne, RTÉ A Celebration in Song Choral music from the Mary, Mother of Hope Senior National...
11:00 - 12:30
Who Dares to Speak of the Trauma of 1916?
DIT Level 2: Room 2-018 Introduced by Paul Murphy A personal perspective on combat stress reaction and the re-telling of the events of 1916...
16:00 - 16:30
The Brave Men of Louth
DIT Level 2: Room 2-017 Introduced by Darren Frehill “Men from Dundalk were detailed to cut the viaduct on the Great Northern railway near...
14:00 - 15:00
Walk and Talk (as Gaeilge)
The RHA Gallery Walk and Talk tour in Irish of the 186th RHA Annual Exhibition presenting the RHA Annual Exhibition in the broader context...
11:00
The Burning of Academy House and its Exhibition
The RHA Gallery A lecture on the destruction of the 1916 RHA annual exhibition, the bombardment of Abbey Street, and the destruction of the Academy’s collections....
16:00
“27th of April Last”
The RHA Gallery The Royal Hibernian Academy, more than any other cultural institution in Ireland experienced the magnitude of the 1916 Rising. Academy House,...
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We Kill All Our Own / Fighting and Writing / The photographs of the widows and children of the 1916 leaders in The Catholic Bulletin.
National Library of Ireland, Lecture Theatre Introduced by Sean Rocks, Presenter, Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 We Kill All Our Own What it Said in thePapers:...
16:00 - 18:00
Irish Citizen Army and Union Memorabilia
Liberty Hall An exhibition of Irish Citizen Army and union memorabilia from 1916, including photographs, paintings and other items of historical interest, will be...
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Looting, Law and Order During the 1916 Rising / I saw the horrified face of a frightened woman: Moore St Market and the 1916 Rising
Four Courts, Court 5 Introduced by Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, RTÉ Looting, Law and Order During the 1916 Rising The Dublin Metropolitan Police During Easter...
11:00 - 12:30
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Dublin Families Surviving the Rising / Rural Radicalisation: Farm Labourers in Revolt / Looting, Law and Order During the 1916 Rising
Trinity College, Robert Emmet Theatre Introduced by Brian Dowling, RTÉ Dublin Families Surviving the Rising This lecture explores the impact of the Easter Rising...
11:00 - 12:30
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Would Home Rule have delivered the same? / Closest to the Action in 1916: Dubliners Speak Up
Four Courts, Court 4 Introduced by Ray Kennedy, RTÉ Newscaster Would Home Rule have delivered the same? Mr Justice John McMenamin, judge of the...
11:00 - 12:30
The Ramparts / An overlooked aspect of 1916 / A Cork Capuchin’s journey through Easter Week 1916
St. Michan’s Church, Halston St Introduced by Eileen Dunne, RTÉ The Ramparts The Ramparts, Ireland’s newest Male Voice Chamber Choir perform a set of Irish...
14:00 - 15:30
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Remembering 1916 / Remembering Revolution – How should the State commemorate a violent past?
The Mansion House – Round Room Introduced by John Bowman, RTÉ broadcaster and historian Remembering 1916 Keynote address by President Michael D. Higgins. ...
15:00 - 18:00
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Some Things You Didn’t Know About 1916
DIT Level 2: Room 2-023 A lot of people know a little about the Rising and some people know a lot about the Rising. No...
17:00 - 18:00
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A History of the Easter Rising in 5 Objects
DIT Level 2: Room 2-023 The story of the Rising and its aftermath through objects that survive from that time. Some of these are what...
15:30 - 16:00
Life Beyond the Rising / The Digital Revolution
DIT Level 2: Room 2-022 Introduced by Damien O’Meara, Presenter, Countrywide, RTE Radio 1 Life Beyond the Rising What newspapers tell us about everyday experience...
16:00 - 17:00
Hearts of Down
DIT Level 2: Room 2-022 Introduced by Damien O’Reilly, Presenter, Countrywide, RTE Radio 1 Reflections on the death of two County Down soldiers killed...
11:00 - 12:00
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Patrick Pearse’s overtly Catholic Rising was Immoral and Anti-Democratic / “The people, the Catholic nation is with us”:
DIT Level 2: Room 2-022 Introduced by Damien O’Meara, Presenter, Countrywide, RTE Radio 1 Patrick Pearse’s overtly Catholic Rising was Immoral and Anti-Democratic The Rising...
13:00 - 15:00
RTÉ’s Insurrection – Rising as a Modern Event / The Reel Rebellion
DIT Level 2: Room 2-021 Introduced by Karina Buckley, RTÉ RTE’s Insurrection – Rising as a Modern Event Luke Gibbons, Professor of Irish Literary and...
16:00 - 18:00
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The Rebels and the ‘Rabble’: Inner-city Dubliners and the Rising / “A wicked and insane” rebellion: The response of John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party
DIT Level 2: Room 2-021 Introduced by Karina Buckley The Rebels and the ‘Rabble’: Inner-city Dubliners and the Rising Why did some inner-city Dubliners respond...
13:00 - 15:00
To Speak of Easter Week – Part 4
DIT Level 2: Room 2-020 “The hardest task was to surrender” – Sean Holohan, son of Paddy Holohan Captain C Company, 1st Battalion Dublin Brigade...
17:00 - 18:00
Children of the Nation / Teaching 1916: What we told the Children
DIT Level 2: Room 2-046 Introduced by Nuala Carey Children of the Nation Childhood, gender and class in 1916: What was childhood like in 1916;...
14:00 - 15:30
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Richmond Barracks: Lost Chapters of our National Story
DIT Level 2: Room 2-018 Introduced by Paul Murphy The 1916 Easter Rising was one of the most important events in the history of Richmond...
13:00 - 13:30
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Who ever heard of the Irish/Jewish Revolution?
DIT Level 2: Room 2-018 Introduced by Paul Murphy The European Jewish revolutionary tradition and Ireland, 1916-1922. Stuart Rosenblatt, Irish/Jewish Genealogical Society of Ireland. ...
11:00 - 11:45
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From a Whisper to a Roar: Monaghan, the 1916 Rising and its commemoration in 1966/ ‘It started with a bang’: 1916 and Edenderry – a Midlands Perspective
DIT Level 2: Room 2-017 Introduced by Marty Morrissey, RTÉ From a Whisper to a Roar: Monaghan, the 1916 Rising and its commemoration in 1966...
11:00 - 13:00
Staging a Boy Republic: Patrick Pearse and the Boys of St Enda’s / Scouting for Rebels: Na Fianna Éireann and the 1916 Rising
DIT Level 3: Room 3-067 Introduced by Damien O’Meara Staging a Boy Republic: Patrick Pearse and the Boys of St Enda’s Pearse’s school, St Enda’s...
13:30 - 15:00
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The Not So Famous Five: the Ring Brothers and the GPO in 1916 / From Royal to Rebel: Herbert Bingham, Lord Lucan and Diana, Princess of Wales / My Great Uncle, Tom Duke / “My Grandfather: Radicalised by Imprisonment, 1916”
DIT Level 2: Room 2-024 Introduced by Nuala Carey The Not So Famous Five: the Ring Brothers and the GPO in 1916 This talk...
11:00 - 13:30
“Whatever You Say, Say Nothing”
DIT Level 2: Room 2-019 Introduced by Siún nic Gearailt, Nuacht, RTÉ Hidden Histories: Family Memory and the 1916 Rising. Felicity Hayes-McCoy, author of A...
11:00 - 11:45
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Eamon de Valera and the 1916 Proclamation
Iveagh House Introduced by Ingrid Miley, Industry and Employment Correspondent, RTÉ The significance of Eamon de Valera having no part in drafting the Proclamation....
13:30 - 14:15
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Ról na Meán í 1916
Freemason’s Hall Freemason’s Hall Déanfaidh Cormac Ó hEadhra ó Radio na Gaeltachta cathaoirleacht ar phlé painéala faoi ról chinniúnach na meán Ghaeilge agus Bearla...
13:30 - 14:30
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The Car and the 1916 Rising / The Rising Value of Rising Collectables
Buswells Hotel, The Georgian Suite (Conference Room) Introduced by Yvonne Judge, RTÉ The Car and the 1916 Rising Motorised transport, in particular the motorcar,...
16:00 - 17:00
Putting a Value on the Rising Collections
Buswells Hotel, The Press Room Specialists from Whyte’s Irish Art & Collectables will provide free valuations of your historic heirlooms from the 1916-1922 period. The...
11:00 - 16:00
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The GAA and 1916 / UP THE DUBS! – Dublin GAA & 1916 / Players or Patriots? The Gaelic Athletic Association and the 1916 Rising
Buswells Hotel, The Georgian Suite (Conference Room) Introduced by Marty Morrissey, RTÉ The GAA and 1916 Many members of the GAA took part in the...
13:00 - 15:00
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Making the Headlines: The News in 1916
Buswells Hotel, The Georgian Suite (Conference Room) Introduced by Yvonne Judge, RTÉ While the rebellion dominated the headlines this talk explores what else made the...
11:00 - 11:30
Royal Hibernian Academy
These are ticketed events. The Royal Hibernian Academy, more than any other cultural institution in Ireland, experienced the magnitude of the 1916 Rising. Academy...
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St Ann’s Church of Ireland
The events at St. Ann Church will begin with ‘A Suite of Songs Commemorating 1916’ performed by The Ranelagh Singers followed by a number...
11:30 - 17:30
