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In “Women’s Voices 1914-1918” we read from some archival sources from Dublin City Library and Archive to highlight four Irish women whose lives were impacted by the First World War in very different ways. The four women featured are Anna Haslam, Nora Guilfoyle, Monica Roberts and Maeve Cavanagh. Part of a new exhibition by Dublin City Archives entitled “Doing their bit” Irish Women and the First W...

Dr Brian Hanley, author and historian looks at Communism in Ireland during the period 1917-1937 Part of a series of lunchtime talks at Dublin City Hall curated by Francis Devine and organised by Dublin City Library & Archive, to commemorate the Russian Revolution of 1917. Courtesy of History.com Recorded at Dublin City Hall on 17 October 2017.

Donal Fallon, Historian-in-Residence, Dublin City Council looks at the Irish response to the Russian Revolution. Part of a series of lunchtime talks at Dublin City Hall curated by Francis Devine to commemorate the Russian Revolution of 1917. Courtesy of History.com Series curated by Francis Devine. Organised by Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street Dublin 2 Recorded at Dublin City H...

The Conniving House tavern, long since forgotten, opened in 1725. On the water not far from where Sandymount Green is now, it is the cultural and geographical starting point for this lecture on the lively interaction of poetic and musical cultures in eighteenth-century Dublin. The only verbal account that we have of that venue comes from Life of John Buncle, esq. by Thomas Amory, who heard there t...

Cathy Scuffil, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, looks at the history of William Spence Engineering Works Cork Street established in 1856. Recorded on the 24 November 2017 at Dublin City Library and Archive as part of Explore Your Archive 2017.

Listen back to Sheela Keane, from our Central Library, discussing 'Knowing Dublin - Know Your City Council' on NearFM's Northside Today programme on 12 October 2017: http://nearfm.ie/podcast/?p=23766 Many thanks to NearFM for permission to upload and share this recording. Knowing Dublin – Know Your City Council is a simple introduction to the work of Dublin City Council and the role of the elected...

Listen back to local Historian and well-known author Bernard Neary from Cabra West as he brings us on an interesting tour of Dublin 7, including the people, places and buildings of interest. Find out where the writer Iris Murdoch was born, where the poet Austin Clarke grew up and where Matt Kiernan made his Uilleann Pipes. Discover interesting facts about local landmarks including the Royal Canal,...

This talk by Peter Clarke covers 225 years of the Royal Canal's history, from its origins in 1789 through all its phases to the present day. The talk traces the planning and construction of the canal and references many places, people and events of historical interest along the course of Dublin’s beloved Royal Canal. Recorded at Phibsboro Library on Monday 21 August 2017 as part of Heritage Week 2...

Peter Costello is an author and editor, described by the American critic Robert Hogan in the Greenwood Dictionary of Irish Literature as “a contemporary embodiment” of the “tradition in Irish literature of the independent scholar, who has an erudition embarrassing to the professional academic”. He is one of Ireland’s leading Joyceans and has written, edited or contributed to some thirty-seven book...

Elizabeth Smith is an authority on Belgrave Square in Rathmines and she has spoken on this topic to many local history societies in Dublin. She also completed a Certificate in Local History at Dublin City Library & Archive when she was the inaugural winner of the Lord Mayor’s Prize for best dissertation. She is founder of the Local History Alumni Group, also at DCLA, and this has gone from strengt...

Dr Jacinta Prunty is Head of the History Department at Maynooth University. She has written extensively on the Dublin Slums and her book of that title is a work which has been welcomed by geographers and historians alike. It gives a comprehensive and insightful account and analysis of Dublin’s inexorable transformation into a slum city; it provides a template for researchers in Irish urban history...

This talk by Turlough O’Donnell marked the 800th anniversary of the connections between Dublin and the Camino de Santiago which was celebrated in 2016. Turlough O’Donnell is chair of the Camino Society Ireland CLG and has walked many parts of the Camino. Recorded at Cabra Library on 6 October 2016 as part of Dublin Festival of History. Photo: El Camino de Santiago en Logroño (La Rioja - España) by...

Listen back to bestselling author Anthony Horowitz in conversation with author and RTÉ correspondent Sinéad Crowley, recorded in Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse St on Thursday 14 September 2017 at 7pm. He read from, and talked about his latest novel The Word is Murder, which is the first of a brilliant new detective series set in London featuring Detective Michael Hawthorne. This event was o...

Michael Barry author of 'Victorian Dublin Revealed' gives an overview of Dublin city, demonstrating how many buildings, both public and domestic, have remained from the Victorian era and introducing them through his own splendid photography. Part of the Living in Victorian Dublin seminar which explored a wide range of contrasting topics relating to this influential era in Dublin’s history includin...

In 1922-23, over 200 people were killed and 3,500 imprisoned in Dublin as rival pro and anti-Treaty factions of the nationalist movement came to blows. John Dorney will talk about urban guerrilla warfare, prisons, executions and assassination during this tumultuous period. Image: Ferguson Raid, from ‘Ireland’s Tragic Week’ a special supplement to the Irish Life newspaper, published on 14 July 1922...

Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence Maeve Casserly discusses the Irish Civil War. Recorded at Rathmines Library on 26 June 2017 as part of The Irish Revolution 1917-1923 lecture series. This three part series of lectures gives an overview of a turbulent and challenging time as Ireland becomes a new nation. Image: Coffin of Michael Collins being carried from the Pro-Cathedral, National Libra...

Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence Maeve Casserly discusses the War of Independence. Recorded at Terenure Library on 20 September 2017 as part of The Irish Revolution 1917-1923 lecture series. This three part series of lectures gives an overview of a turbulent and challenging time as Ireland becomes a new nation. Image: Michael Collins, 1922 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mich…llins_1922....

Seán Connolly was in command of the City Hall garrison on Easter Monday 1916. Hear the story of this Dublin Corporation employee, Irish Citizen Army captain and the first rebel to die in the Rising. Donal Fallon is a historian with a particular interest in the history of Dublin. He is one of the founders and contributors to the “Come Here To Me” blog and has published widely on Irish history. Reco...

"How do Jacob's get the figs into their Fig Rolls?" Well Jim Figgerty was purportedly the only man who knew this secret and he was the star in an iconic series of ads in the '60s. Paddy Griffin was the actor who brought Jim Figgerty to life. Here Wendy Williams, curator of the 'Jacobs Biscuits & Dublin' exhibition talks to his son Gerry Griffin and his granddaughter Elaine Griffin about Paddy and...

"How do Jacob's get the figs into their Fig Rolls?" was one of the most longstanding and iconic taglines in Irish advertising history. Here Wendy Williams, curator of the 'Jacobs Biscuits & Dublin' exhibition talks to Ian Fox about the history of advertising Jacob's Biscuits. Ian Fox worked for Mack Kyle in Irish International Advertising for many years starting in the late 1960s. In this intervie...

Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence Maeve Casserly discusses Ireland in 1917. Recorded at Rathmines Library on 12 June 2017 as part of The Irish Revolution 1917-1923 lecture series. This three part series of lectures gives an overview of a turbulent and challenging time as Ireland becomes a new nation. About Dublin City Council's Historians-in-Residence: Building on the success of the 2016...

Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence Dr Brian Hanley discusses the Irish Civil War June 1922 – May 1923. Recorded at Dublin City Library and Archive on 26 June 2017 as part of The Irish Revolution 1917-1923 lecture series. This three part series of lectures gives an overview of a turbulent and challenging time as Ireland becomes a new nation. About Dublin City Council's Historians-in-Residen...

Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence Dr Brian Hanley discusses the War of Independence. Recorded at Dublin City Library and Archive on 19 June 2017 as part of The Irish Revolution 1917-1923 lecture series. This three part series of lectures gives an overview of a turbulent and challenging time as Ireland becomes a new nation. About Dublin City Council's Historians-in-Residence Building on th...

What happened in Ireland after the 1916 Rising? Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence Dr Brian Hanley takes a detailed look at Ireland in 1917. Recorded in front of a live audience at Dublin City Library and Archive on 12 June 2017 as part of The Irish Revolution 1917-1923 lecture series.

Richard O’Carroll was a trade unionist and Labour Party councillor on Dublin Corporation, first elected in 1907. He was killed by Captain Bowen-Colthurst during the 1916 Rising and was the only elected member of Dublin City Council to be killed while on active service during the Rising. Brian Hanley holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and has taught and published widely on twentieth-century Ir...