Síobhra Aiken (QUB) and Hayley Brabazon (DCU) will give a lecture on ‘Politics of Necessity: commemorating the world wars in the Republic of Ireland’ in the K114, Newman Building, UCD.
16 Oct
4:00 pm
Newman Building UCDUniversity College Dublin, Stillorgan Rd, Belfield, Dublin 4
Dublin WFA Conference: The Great War and the Irish Revolution, Pearse Street Library, Dublin. Topics and Speakers ‘They Have Rights Who Dare Maintain Them’ – The Formation of the Irish Volunteers by Gerry White; Conditional Loyalty – the 1914 ‘Curragh Incident’ by Patrick Sheehan Stories from the Stones – Dublin Soldiers in War and Revolution […]
Book Launch: Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War’. During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned to Italy from around the world to perform their conscripted military service, a mass mobilisation which was a uniquely Italian phenomenon. But what happened to these men following their arrival and once the […]
05 Nov
6:30 pm
Newman Building UCDUniversity College Dublin, Stillorgan Rd, Belfield, Dublin 4
Lunchtime Seminar: ‘The Irish soldier settlers of Nova Scotia, 1818-1838′ The topic of Irish soldier settlers in Nova Scotia between 1818 and 1838 is primarily the subject of academic research, notably by Dr. Michael Vance of Saint Mary’s University. These soldiers, many from southern and western Ireland, were granted land as a way of settling […]
13 Nov
12:00 pm
Newman Building UCDUniversity College Dublin, Stillorgan Rd, Belfield, Dublin 4