1916 – Education or Indoctrination?
The Gresham, The O’Connell Suite Introduced by Dr. Gavin Jennings, RTÉ Join guest panelists, Jack Chambers TD, Dr. Kieran Allen and Ruth Dudley Edwards along...
17:00 - 18:00
Politics in 1916
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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...
12:00
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The Irish Folly: The Easter Rising: the Press; the people; the politics
DIT, Room G-021 Michael Foley, Lecturer in Journalism, Dublin Institute of Technology. Photograph courtesy of the RTÉ Archives
15:30 - 16:00
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The Irish Folly: The Easter Rising: the Press; the people; the politics.
DIT, Room G-021 Michael Foley, Lecturer in Journalism, Dublin Institute of Technology. Photograph courtesy of the RTÉ Archives
14:30 - 15:00
Broadcasts On RTÉ Radio 1 – The Four Courts
Four Courts On Easter Monday, a special edition of The History Show will be coming live from The Four Courts. This building which dates...
10:00 - 13:00
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Eoin MacNeill, the Rising and the RIA / The Recent Revolt in Dublin City’: How Ireland’s Lighthouse Service was placed on the 1916 Rising’s front line / Ireland India and Empire: The Reverberations of the 1916 Rising
RIA Lecture Hall Introduced by David McCullagh, RTÉ Eoin MacNeill, the Rising and the Royal Irish Academy In May 1916, the Royal Irish Academy...
11:00 - 13:30
Do We Need a New Proclamation for A New Generation?
The Gresham, O’Connell Suite Introduced by Dr. Gavin Jennings, RTÉ Gerard O’Neill , Chairman of Amárach Research author of 2016: A New Proclamation for A...
13:00 - 14:00
World War One and the Rising / A War Within A War? How the First World War Influenced the Easter Rising
Trinity College, Thomas David Theatre Introduced by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, RTÉ World War One and the Rising What happens if we see World...
14:00 - 16:00
Thomas MacDonagh and Pádraig Pearse / Rebel Poets and Readings
Trinity College, JM Synge Theatre Introduced by Richard Downes, RTÉ Thomas MacDonagh and Pádraig Pearse: Two Teachers, Two Poets, One Revolution. The role of...
14:00 - 15:30
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Beyond Ireland’s Shores / Intelligence & The Rising
Trinity College, JM Synge Theatre Introduced by Richard Downes, RTÉ Beyond Ireland’s Shores The Irish Revolution – the war between the British authorities and...
11:00 - 12:30
Remembering 1916: Have memory and myth become entangled? / Dublin University History Society 1916 Commemorative Debate
Trinity College, Public Theatre Remembering 1916: Have memory and myth become entangled? Introduced and chaired by RTÉ Radio One Presenter Aine Lawlor Professor John...
16:00 - 18:00
Politics Transformed – Are Irish Politics Still Shaped by the Revolutionary Decade?
Trinity College, Public Theatre Introduced and chaired by John Bowman The seismic impact which the events of Easter 1916, and their aftermath, had on politics...
13:30 - 14:30
Ní Réabhlóid go Athbheochan- an mbeadh Éirí Amach ann gan Athbheochan na Gaeilge?
Trinity College, Public Theatre Introduced and Chaired by Cathal Mac Coille, Presenter, Morning Ireland, RTÉ Radio 1 Déanfaidh Cathal Mac Coille cathaoirleacht ar phlé painéala...
11:00 - 12:00
Reflections on the Rising
Trinity College, Edmund Burke Theatre Introduced by David McCullagh, RTÉ Professor Paul Bew, Professor of Politics, Queen’s University Belfast Ivana Bacik, Reid Professor of...
15:00 - 18:00
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The Trials and the Executions of 1916
Trinity College, Edmund Burke Theatre Introduced by John Bowman After the rebellion came the surrender. 1,200 men and women surrendered in Dublin. 2,000 more...
11:00 - 12:00
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Our Politicians Reflect on the Rising: 1916: Building on the Legacy / A Socialist View of 1916
The Gresham, The Trinity Suite Introduced by Dr. Gavin Jennings, RTÉ Our Politicians Reflect on the Rising: 1916: Building on the Legacy One hundred...
11:00 - 13:00
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The Annulments / The IRB and the Easter Rising / Ye Vagabonds
Smithfield Square, The Cobblestone The Annulments Dublin five-piece playing original folk/Americana/roots music The Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Easter Rising: A Continuity...
16:15 - 18:00
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World War I and the Rising: Irish Society and Politics During ‘the War to End All Wars’ / George V’s view of Ireland and reactions to the Rising
St Michan’s Church, Church Street Hosted by Aengus MacGrianna, News Reader, RTÉ World War I and the Rising: Irish Society and Politics During ‘the...
11:00 - 13:00
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
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Within These Walls: Kilmainham Gaol and the Easter Rising / “Let them do with my body whate’er they will”; Rebuilding rebel reputations in the wake of 1916
Four Courts, Court 5 Introduced by Martina Fitzgerald, Political Correspondent, RTÉ Within These Walls: Kilmainham Gaol and the Easter Rising A talk about the...
13:00 - 14:30
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The Four Courts and the Easter Rising / “Don’t shoot me! You’ll get into awful trouble”: GPO Staff in 1916 / “Oh yous are all nicely shanghaied now!” The Final Hours of the Rising on Moore Street
Four Courts, Court 5 Introduced by Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, RTÉ The Four Courts and the Easter Rising How the 1916 Rising affected the Four...
13:30 - 15:30
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“Brave and young Sean Heuston, who died for truth and right” / Con Colbert – The Man & The Myths
Four Courts, Court 4 Introduced by Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, RTÉ “Brave and young Sean Heuston, who died for truth and right”. Dubliner Sean...
13:30 - 15:00
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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
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Patrick Pearse, the Face of the Rising / Patrick Pearse – The Victorian Gael
Four Courts, Court 3 Introduced by David Murphy, Business Editor, RTÉ Patrick Pearse, the Face of the Rising How Patrick Pearse became the public...
13:30 - 15:00
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The Fringes of the Rising / The Echoes from Gettysburg: The Legitimacy of the Rising?
Four Courts, Court 3 Introduced by David Murphy, Business Editor, RTÉ The Fringes of the Rising Mr Justice Michael Moriarty The Echoes from Gettysburg:...
11:00 - 12:30
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Meanwhile in France… / Political Imprisonment after the Rising
Trinity College, Thomas Davis Theatre Introduced by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, RTÉ Meanwhile in France… The gas attack on the 16th Irish Division in...
11:00 - 12:30
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Reacting to the Rising: British government and Irish Rebellion
Four Courts, Court 1 Introduced by Robert Shortt, RTÉ This talk will examine the reaction of the British administration, the Cabinet, and the parliament at...
17:00 - 17:45
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Joseph Plunkett and the Cloak of Invisibility: Following Five Plunketts Through the Rising / James Connolly, A Full Life
Four Courts, Court 1 Introduced by Robert Shortt, RTÉ Joseph Plunkett and the Cloak of Invisibility: Following Five Plunketts Through the Rising Joseph Plunkett,...
14:30 - 16:00
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Comparing the Trials of the Leaders of the Rising and the Trial of Roger Casement / One Bold Deed of Open Treason: Roger Casement’s Trial and Execution / Roger Casement, Alice Stopford Green and Irish Nationality / On Trial for High Treason: The Background to the Roger Casement Painting by John Lavery
Four Courts, Court 1 Introduced by Robert Shortt, RTÉ Comparing the Trials of the Leaders of the Rising and the Trial of Roger Casement...
11:00 - 13:30
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Children and the law in 1916 / The Role of the Four Courts in the Easter Rising
Four Courts, Supreme Court Introduced by Myles Dungan, RTÉ Children and the law in 1916 This talk will examine how the law treated children at...
14:00 - 15:00
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The Role of the Four Courts in the Easter Rising / The Irish Prison System in 1916
Four Courts, Supreme Court Introduced by Kevin Backhurst, Deputy Director General, RTE The Role of the Four Courts in the Easter Rising Chief Justice Susan...
11:00 - 12:30
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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
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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
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“Kulok! Kulok! Kulok!”; 1916, the Easter Rising within a European context.
DIT Level 2: Room 2-021 Introduced by Karina Buckley, RTÉ What were the reactions to the Easter Rising in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin and the...
11:00 - 11:45
Thomas McDonagh and the Easter Rising / John MacBride
DIT Level 4: Room 4-079 Introduced by Darragh Moloney When the Dawn is Come – Thomas McDonagh and the Easter Rising Thomas MacDonagh was drawn...
13:30 - 15:00
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Patrick Pearse – A Political Life / ‘The Social Network: Willie Pearse, the arts and the revolutionary generation’
DIT Level 4: Room 4-079 Introduced by Darragh Moloney Patrick Pearse – A Political Life This talk will assess the contribution of Pearse to the...
11:00 - 12:30
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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
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Jumping into the GPO: “How women entered male space in 1916” / Women, Culture & The Rising / Women, Nationalism and Politics after the Easter Rising
DIT Level 4: Room 4-027 Introduced by Audrey Carville, RTÉ Radio 1 Jumping into the GPO: “How women entered male space in 1916” Gender and...
11:00 - 13:30
Rising the Revivalists to 1916 / “Not Free Merely, but Gaelic as Well”: Was 1916 a Gaelic Revolution?
DIT Level 3: Room 3-067 Introduced by Damien O’Meara Rising the Revivalists to 1916 “But never mind, when it comes to the end I’ll say...
11:00 - 12:30
Turas Treoraithe Uimhir 6 Sráid Fhearchair / Tour of 6 Harcourt St.
6 Sráid Fhearchair | 6 Harcourt Street Tours begin every 30 minutes from 11am – 6pm Take a rare chance to see where Michael...
11:00 - 18:00
Interactive History of Conradh na Gaeilge
6 Harcourt Street/6 Sráid Fhearchair Number 6 Harcourt Street, the Ceannáras of Conradh na Gaeilge, was the headquarters and bank of Sinn Féin in...
11:00 - 18:00
1916: ‘glorious thing’ or ‘altruistic evil’?
Iveagh House Introduced by Ingrid Miley, Industry and Employment Correspondent, RTÉ This lecture will discuss the democratic and moral credentials of the Easter Rising,...
17:00 - 18:00
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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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Why Was There a Rising in Dublin? / Was the Rising Really Necessary?
Iveagh House Introduction by Seán O’Rourke. Why Was There a Rising in Dublin? The Rising was long-prepared, it was ‘a product of its times’,...
11:00 - 12:30
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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
