#OtD 13 Apr 1949 Marie Louise Berneri, anti-war activist and anarchist died aged just 31. She had been a central figure in the UK anarchist movt and helped organise support for Spanish orphans and refugees after the civil war. This is one of her books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/journ…

Interesting job here! #Archivist #JobFairy

Article on the 1918 conscription crisis here: ‘A Declaration of War on the Irish People’ The Conscription Crisis of 1918'. theirishstory.com/2018/04/24/a-d…

History talk tomorrow!

Historian Cormac Moore's talk 'the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19' will be about the devastating 'Spanish Flu' in Ireland.

Pembroke Library / Wed 10 April / 1pm

Register:
T: 01 222 8450
E: [email protected] Dublin City Libraries
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Historian Mary Muldowney will discuss the historical background of the plays and Sean O’Casey’s activities, particularly his membership of the Irish Citizen Army.

Cabra Library, Saturday 20 April, 2.30pm

Booking essential:
T. 01 222 8317
E. [email protected] Dublin City Libraries

Forthcoming this autumn -⁦ Dr. Jennifer Redmond⁩ & ⁦Dr Mary McAuliffe⁩ (eds) ‘The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland’-new & original research in often marginised,hidden & contested areas of Irish gender / LGBTI histories-pre order now fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/the…

Very limited space left for our day session that includes a discussion on “An International Movement for Momentous Times”

Featuring ⬇️

Jeremy Corbyn
Clare Daly
Claire O'Connor 🇵🇸
Daniel Lambert

Pick up the last few here 🎟️ 👇

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History talk tomorrow

'Fleapits, Palaces, and Multiplexes: a history of cinemas in Dublin' by historian in residence Katie Blackwood (Katie Blackwood).

Tuesday 9 April at 6.30pm in Raheny library.

To book: Call (01) 222 8323 or email [email protected] Dublin City Libraries

Sylvia Meehan (2 April 1929 #Dublin -6 Sept 2018 #Galway ).👩‍🎓UCD ALUMNI. When husband died, taught Eng/History. VP ASTI. Chair♀️committee Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Instrumental in equal pay for women! Founder ISCP! On National Council on Ageing and Older People.

Really looking to this year's IAPH Annual Lecture by Emile Chabal next Tuesday at 7pm The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square. 'The art of editing: Eric Hobsbawm and Past & Present'. Chaired by Dónal Hassett

Thank you to The Workers' Party for their support on #TressellFest

One of the major themes of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is Frank Owen’s frustration and trying to make his fellow workers see they were complicit in their own exploitation.

🎬 Caoimhe Garland explains 👇

1/ For the weekend that’s in it - a selection of extracts from Dr Kathleen Lynn’s diary of 1916, detailing her Easter week experience. She began her diary just before the Rebellion & would keep, daily, until 1955. #diariesofkathleenlynn #easter1916 heritage.rcpi.ie/Projects/Dr-Ka…

‘Servants in the Big House in Ireland’

A talk by historian Elizabeth 🇺🇦🇺🇦💛💙🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 on how big houses depended on a workforce to cook, clean, wait tables, run baths, manage the demesne, and raise children.

In Central Library on Wednesday 10 April at 2:30pm.

Free admission. Dublin City Libraries

Rising from the ranks of the suffragists & part of the 1st generation of newly enfranchised women, Mary MacSwiney (b. #OTD 1872) was instrumental in attracting international attention to her brother Terence's death during a tour of the US in 1921.
dib.ie/biography/macs… #DIBLives

Online first! First article in our special issue on Decolonizing Academia in the Irish Journal of Sociology, edited by Bhargabi Das, Sayan Dey and Epifania Amoo-Adare. More incoming! doi.org/10.1177/079160…

A reminder to join us on Tuesday April 2nd (this day week) at 19:00 at the RSAI, 63 Merrion Square to hear Emile Chabal deliver the annual Irish Association of Professional Historians lecture on ‘The Art of Editing: Eric Hobsbawm and Past & Present’. Open to all!

🇮🇪 SOE agent Maureen Patricia (Paddy) O'Sullivan parachuted into the Lot department in the early hours of 23 March 1944. She was badly concussed when hitting the ground and took some time to recover.
Born in Dublin in 1918, she was educated in France and Belgium and was fluent…

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Author Sonja Tiernan of our 2 bestsellers Irish Women's Speeches Vol 1 & 2 talks about political speeches

1/130pm BBC Radio Ulster Talkback
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#ThroughHerEyes
Cork-born pirate Anne Bonny, the machete-wielding plunderer of the high seas in the Caribbean, is back in the news. There's a new song (Fiona Kennedy) and a new book (@NualaNiC about her.

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