Address

The Registry, McKee Barracks, Dublin 7.

Phone

353-(0)1-677 7853

Email

secretary@militaryheritage.ie

Organizer

UCD Centre of War Studies
UCD Centre of War Studies
Phone
01 7168608
Website
https://www.ucd.ie/warstudies/

Founded in 2008, the UCD Centre for War Studies promotes a wide range of international research activities focused on the origins, nature, and consequences of all war-related violence from ancient times to the present day.

Location

Newman Building UCD
Newman Building UCD
University College Dublin, Stillorgan Rd, Belfield, Dublin 4
Opening Hour
Newman Building 08:00-22:00 08:00-18:00 Closed Sat & Sun

The Newman Building, designed by Andrzej Wejchert (who also developed the original campus masterplan) opened in 1970 and was originally known as the Arts-Commerce-Law Building.

Date

05 Nov 2025

Time

6:30 pm

Book Launch

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 war had ended?