Recordings of both days of the conference are available here. To download the conference programme, please click on one of the links below: ÍOSLÓDÁIL I NGAEILGE DOWNLOAD IN ENGLISH On Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2022 UCD hosted a national conference as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023, marking one hundred years since the foundation of the Irish State. This major two-day … Continue reading Foundation of the Irish State
This project involves the recording and broadcast of podcasts. Amongst the podcasts for the coming two years is a six-part series recorded by Dr Jeff Kildea based on the role of Irish soldiers at Gallipoli and a further podcast series around the 1916 Rising. In tandem with the UCD Archives, historyhub.ie also produces a monthly documents series, drawing on the extraordinary collection based in the UCD … Continue reading History Hub Centenary Features
Sunday 1st November 2020 marks the centenary of the execution of UCD medical student Kevin Barry (see /1912-1923-timeline/#year-9 ). UCD’s School of Medicine plans to host a public engagement event involving a series of reflections, on themes such as leadership in healthcare; making personal sacrifices for the public good; providing healthcare during war time; and idealism and disillusionment in medicine, under the title ‘Standing Up for … Continue reading Kevin Barry Centenary
This project builds on two Decade of Centenaries Projects by Deirdre Raftery, funded by the Irish Research Council. One was the Decade of Centenaries Flagship Project (2016), called ‘Loreto the Green and 1916’, a digital exhibition in Google Arts and Culture. The other is an ongoing study called ‘Irish Convents in the Revolutionary Period’, funded by the IRC in 2017. These projects provided insight into … Continue reading M. Michael Corcoran IBVM, Education and Society: a Digital History Project
The goal of this project is to engage the UCD community, wider public, government and other stakeholders in arriving at a more pluralistic understanding of the legacy of 1916, utilizing the Moore Street market and its environs as a lens. This will be achieved through a public exhibition showcasing our research (funded by the IRC) on the interplay and tensions between narratives of identity, urban … Continue reading Voices of Moore Street Dublin: An Experiential Exploration of the Legacy of 1916
Virtual Sackville Street 1916 proposes to explore the 1916 Rising by creating a VR space that maps the streetscape before and after the events of April 1916. Virtual Sackville Street 1916 will draw on the expertise of a cross-section of UCD researchers across both Arts and Science disciplines. Drawing on historic accounts and archival images and film footage it will recreate a visually accurate interpretation … Continue reading Virtual Sackville Street 1916
The Irish State Administration Database captures the establishment, growth and evolution of Ireland’s state administration from the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the present. The database records information about all national-level public organizations, including central government departments and the agencies linked to them, commercial state-owned enterprises, and other relevant public bodies and institutions. The data has mostly been collected from official … Continue reading Mapping the Irish State
On 1 November 1913 Eoin MacNeill (Professor of Early Irish History at University College Dublin) published an article in An Claidheamh Soluis newspaper entitled ‘The North Began’. In this article MacNeill called for the creation of the Irish Volunteers, modelled on the Ulster Volunteers who had mobilized in opposition to Home Rule for Ireland. In the aftermath of his article, MacNeill was asked to take … Continue reading Eoin MacNeill: Revolutionary and Scholar
The symposium examines the role of visual culture in constructing and critiquing the state and national identity in the aftermath of political independence. The foundation of the Irish Free State was marred by partition, Civil War and division over sociopolitical goals. Other newly independent European nations in the post 1918 period experienced similar dissonance and chaos, often following the great hopes aroused by independence. What … Continue reading Art and Reality
This project aims to examine the memorialisation of the Easter Rising in the built environment and the interplay between urban (re)development processes and memory, identity and politics. We hypothesise that the conflict over protection of Dublin’s Moore Street is underpinned by competing lay and professional discourses of heritage. This conflict hinders the site’s interpretation and obscures its potential in collective remembering. To address these themes, … Continue reading The memorialisation of Moore Street: conservation and commemoration.
To commemorate the centenary of the ending of the First World War, and to honour all those affected by violent conflict anywhere in the world, University College Dublin is holding an international poetry competition for the best original poem on war and its effects. Prizes will be awarded in three categories and the shortlisted poems will be included in a commemorative performance in Dublin in … Continue reading Voices of War Winners Announced
On 24-25 May 2018, a two-day international conference will be held in University College Dublin, Ireland, examining comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to partition and border studies. 2020 marks the centenary of the 1920 Government of Ireland Act which legislated for a two-state solution to the Irish question. Nationally, this conference prefaces this event by considering the wider history and contexts of partition. Internationally, the conference … Continue reading Partitions and borders: a comparative and interdisciplinary conference
While the geographic and political ramifications of the events of 1913-23 are well known, these events also had far-reaching effects on medicine, healthcare and public health which affected the lives of thousands, and continue to impact us today. The UCD History and Health Competition is a new team competition encouraging Transition Year students to commemorate the events of 1913-23 from a new perspective. Student teams … Continue reading The UCD History and Health Competition
A dedicated digital platform has been created on the National Folklore Collection website (www.ucd.ie/folklore) to host material from personal inherited reminiscences of the 1916 Rising and its aftermath that are in the care of the National Folklore Collection. These items range from handwritten transcripts of interviews made in the 1930s and 1940s to tape-recorded interviews made in the 1970s and subsequent years. The platform has … Continue reading Remembering 1916 – Online Exhibition
This series of public seminars will contextualise the constitutional debates and decolonising violence of a century ago in the Irish present and future. The presentations and discussions will assess how far the Irish State has evolved from the best ambitions of its founders and how it might better realise them. The series brings together experts in policy analysis, comparative political science and comparative political and … Continue reading The state of the State
Through the first university level partnership with Wikipedia’s Education Program in Ireland, students taking the module, IS20010: Advanced Information Skills for Problem Solving, celebrated the Decade of Centenaries by collaboratively authoring biographies for individuals who experienced the momentous events of the centenary period. During the module, students learn a variety of information and digital literacy skills to help them locate and evaluate information for inclusion … Continue reading Sharing our Heritage: Commemorating Irish Historical Figures through Collaborative Open-Access Publishing
‘The Museum of August Destiny’ was a commissioned contemporary art exhibition curated by Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald (UCD), featuring six artists born or working in Ireland, and exploring the resonance of the Proclamation a century after it was written. It presented a ‘capsule’ museum responding to the final line of the 1916 Proclamation, in which the Irish nation is exhorted to ‘prove itself worth of the … Continue reading The Museum of August Destiny
UCD Irish Memory Studies Network will host a multidisciplinary conference, co-organised with NUI Galway, to mark the completion of the 1916: Home: 2016 project. This project marks the 20th anniversary of the closing of the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland, and complicates the narrative of the 1916 commemorations by engaging in debate about the realities of the State that resulted from the idea of the … Continue reading 1916: Home: 2016
Patrick Pearse’s earliest spatial memory was of his family’s dim basement in inner city Dublin. Moving to ‘a room higher up, a bright room, with great spaces of floor’ he found ‘this rise towards the zenith … symbolic of a corresponding rise in our fortunes’. Inclined represent his life, work and politics as a spatial progression, he also moved his bilingual school St. Enda’s from … Continue reading Pearse’s Landscape
This public lecture takes its title from the visionary work of literary criticism published in 1916 by Thomas MacDonagh, UCD lecturer in English as well as political activist, poet and playwright. 50 years later, in 1966, Professor Roger McHugh established the Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD, the first such Chair in the field of Irish writing in English to be established nationally … Continue reading Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish (1916, 1966, 2016)
Friday 9th September 2016 marks the centenary of the death at Ginchy in the Somme of Thomas Michael Kettle, Professor of National Economics at UCD and sometime MP for Tyrone East. However, Kettle was more than the sum of his parts and he constitutes one of the leading UCD academics to have been involved in national life both through politics and literary achievement. This event … Continue reading Tom Kettle 100
UCD Library has digitised two wonderful and evocative collections, honouring one of Irish history’s young heroes. Kevin Barry, a medical student at UCD, was executed for his part in an ambush which resulted in the deaths of three British Army officers in 1920. He was hanged on the 1st of November 1920, despite numerous appeals for his life to be spared. He was 18 years … Continue reading Kevin Barry and His Time: An Exhibition
UCD will host a one-day conference to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme and to reflect on the ways that the Great War has been remembered in Ireland and across Europe over the past century. The conference speakers will consider patterns of memory and look at how different countries acknowledge and remember the Great War. The conference will be complemented by a … Continue reading After the War: Commemorating the Great War in Ireland
Joyce’s revolutionary novel depicting the personal and intellectual struggles of Stephen Dedalus as a schoolboy and UCD student was published in New York on 29 December 1916. Personally 1916 was a talismanic year for Joyce but he was also keenly aware of its political importance and worked determinedly to ensure that his text appeared in this key year. A Portrait was in effect Joyce’s contribution … Continue reading Reading James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man 1916-2016
Conflict & Concrete is an architectural history project with a strong public engagement emphasis. It will bring new research into the period 1916-c.1926 in Dublin city, through the lens of conservation and reconstruction processes. In collaboration, the project will generate a 2016 exhibition of previously unseen photography, architectural and engineering drawings in the Irish Architectural Archive and spearhead a joint UCD and Dublin City Council international … Continue reading Conflict and The City
UCD and the Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures, begin on 11th May 2016. These annual talks bring together actors and academics to discuss how, why and where Shakespeare matters in Ireland, and in the “shared language” and cultural memory President Michael D. Higgins celebrated on his 2014 visit to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon. This year, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, our venues include the National Library … Continue reading UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures
Take a tour through a series of visually stimulating and informative panels on the cultural background and history of the 1916 Rising. The exhibition will explore the events of 1916 through a myriad of materials, specifically the books, documents, private papers, periodicals and ephemera held in UCD Archives and in UCD Special Collections at the James Joyce Library. This unique public exhibition is to accompany … Continue reading Reading 1916: An Exhibition
As part of our public engagement programme to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries (which began with the 3rd Home Rule Bill in 1912 and finishes with the end of the Irish civil war in 1921-22), UCD has commissioned a theatre piece in which eight world class Irish writers present the seven signatories, along with Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, in a series of monologues, bringing the audience … Continue reading Signatories
A commemorative series of seven public lectures in Irish on various aspects of life and culture in Ireland in the wake of the Easter Rising, 1916. The series title is borrowed from that of a celebrated short-story collection by one of early twentieth-century Ireland’s most beloved writers, Pádraic Ó Conaire. The ambiguity of the keyword ‘bua’, which can be translated as ‘triumph’ or ‘quality’, provides … Continue reading The Seven Qualities of the Rising
Produced in support of Proclamation Day 2016, Tuesday March 15th, the videos below feature UCD academics Dr Conor Mulvagh, lecturer in Irish History with special responsibility for the Decade of Commemorations, UCD School of History and Dr Aoife Whelan, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore reading aloud the Proclamation in English and Irish. The readings were filmed in front of the Kevin Barry … Continue reading Proclamation Day 2016
Coinciding with the centenary of the 1916 Rising, this course will look at its more prominent participants in terms of their family backgrounds. Using genealogical and historical methodologies, we will examine the ancestral origins, social status, political affiliations, accomplishments, interactions and other aspects of the families of leading rebellion figures. Those selected for special examination will be firstly the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, … Continue reading Genealogies & Family Histories of 1916 Leaders
The War Project will premiere on Wednesday 9th March at 8pm in Memorial Hall, Richview and run until Friday 11th March. All ticket sales are in aid of Médecins Sans Frontières. The Ad Astra Academy Performing Arts Strand is delighted to invite you to the opening of The War Project, a new performance developed in Memorial Hall, Richview by the Ad Astra Performing Arts Drama and Music Scholars and performed in association with UCD … Continue reading The War Project
UCD and the Irish Independent have collaborated to produce the 1916 Collection, an insightful and informative series of ten supplements. These supplements allow UCD to share a wealth of knowledge via our expert academics and archival materials. As a major holder of archives of national and international significance relating to the Decade of Centenaries (1912-1923), the university’s vision is to inform national debate and understanding … Continue reading 1916 UCD & Irish Independent supplement series
This exhibition will display a series of original documents concerning aspects of the 1916 Rising which are held in UCD Archives. The exhibition includes a copy of a ‘Half-Proclamation’ printed by British troops who occupied Liberty Hall in April 1916 (on view 5 February only) printed by British troops who occupied Liberty Hall in April 1916; the Diary of civil servant, J.R. Clarke, who gives … Continue reading Documents of 1916
Revolution: Results and Reappraisal is a two-day conference and public exhibition in the Pearse Museum and on the UCD Belfield Campus to be held in February 2016. In collaboration with the Pearse Museum, the Gaelic League, the UCD National Folklore Collection, and the UCD James Joyce Library Special Collections, the exhibition will showcase Revival material, including documents, journals, and accounts of the Risingnot previously seen … Continue reading Revolution: Results and Reappraisal
The insurrection in 1916 inspired a vibrant body of poetry. These works engage in fundamental ways with the ideals of independence and with the feelings and experiences that helped shape modern Ireland. Perceived as a ‘poets’ revolution’, the Easter Rising is often linked to the Irish Revival that flourished at the turn of the century, suggesting a close relationship between artistic expression and political activism. … Continue reading Poems of the Rising – Have your say
This conference focusses on the Easter Rising which broke out in Dublin on 24 April 1916. Aiming to inform public discourse in advance of the state centenary, it investigates the Rising both from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. By internationalising the Irish experience, this seminal event in modern Irish history will be considered in global context. The rising was shaped by transnational forces, including the end of … Continue reading Globalising the Rising: 1916 in context
UCD host After Empire, a public discussion with former leaders of former British colonies who share Ireland’s experience of transition to independence. The speakers are: Thabo Mbeki, African National Congress, President of South Africa, 1999-2008 and Deputy President 1994-99; Watch an interview with Thabo Mbeki and Dr Conor Mulvagh, UCD School of History Benjamin Mkapa, Revolutionary State Party: President of Tanzania 1995-2005, Minister for Science, … Continue reading After Empire Leaders’ Discussion
Joyce’s revolutionary novel depicting the personal and intellectual struggles of Stephen Dedalus as a schoolboy and UCD student was published in New York on 29 December 1916. Personally 1916 was a talismanic year for Joyce but he was also keenly aware of its political importance and worked determinedly to ensure that his text appeared in this key year. A Portrait was in effect Joyce’s contribution to 1916. … Continue reading The Coming-of-Age-Novel After Joyce
Six high profile public lectures are to be held in Newman House in 2015/2016 to underline the global repercussions of, and responses to, the Easter Rising of 1916. 1916 is often seen primarily in a national context, but it was an event that drew global attention and inspired other decolonisation movements. Guest speakers will include some of the international leading authorities on the period. There … Continue reading 1916 as a Global Event
A series of seven public lectures in Irish on the transformative effect of the 1916 Easter Rising on various aspects of culture and society in Ireland. UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore. The lectures will take place at 7pm in Theatre R, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield. *15 October 2015: Peadar Ó Riada, on Music 12 November 2015: Dr Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, on the Visual … Continue reading Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach
Take a walking tour of significant Dublin locations associated with the Easter Rising curated and developed by a team of researchers from University College Dublin. This project contributes to the UCD Decade of Centenaries programme through the design of an augmented reality (AR) mobile app. Easy to download for android and from the App Store, it will take you on a poignant journey through the … Continue reading EastAR Rising – Walking Tour App
During 2015 and 2016 University College Dublin will host a series of workshops on globalizing the history of revolutions. The series will endeavor to discover what distinguishes the Irish Revolution from other revolutionary situations at the start of the twentieth century. The workshops will bring together experts in the history of revolution and revolutionary situations in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The first workshop … Continue reading Global Revolution
Building on the Irish Research Council funded project Following the Fighters? This project develops insights from new and underused sources to investigate the experience of female political imprisonment in ‘Revolutionary Ireland’. We analyse material artefacts, especially prison art and personal mementos held in Kilmainham Gaol and Conway Mill in addition to personal papers and State archives relating to females imprisoned due to suffrage, labour and … Continue reading Revolting Women: Nationalism, Suffrage and Labour, 1912-1924
The Irish Revival of 1891 to 1922 was an extraordinary era of literary achievement and political debate in Ireland. The artists, thinkers and political activists of the day exchanged ideas and opinions about what Ireland was and could become. Yet much of this discourse remains out of print, some of these voices almost forgotten. Handbook of the Irish Revival provides for the first time, in an … Continue reading Handbook of the Irish Revival
Soon after the Bloomsday and Yeats birthday celebrations, on Friday 26 June 2015, the School of English, Film and Drama at University College Dublin will host a seminar at Newman House, chaired by Colm Tóibín, on the subject of the continuing global influence of Yeats. This event will form UCD’s major contribution to the ‘Yeats 2015′ commemorative programme’ (marking the 150th anniversary of the poet’s … Continue reading Global Yeats: UCD Yeats 2015 Commemoration
Revival to Revolution is a two-day event focusing on the literary career of UCD alumnus and revolutionary figure Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916). As the centenary of the Easter Rising approaches, this symposium will investigate a series of cultural shifts that brought about the revolutionary actions culminating in the 1916 Rising. Distinguished experts in the fields of Irish History, Literature and Art History will contribute lectures on … Continue reading Revival to Revolution – literary career of Thomas MacDonagh
Academic institutions, their staff and students, have played key roles in effecting social and political change throughout the last century. This conference explores the context of the Irish university experience through international comparators, with a twentieth century focus. The discussions in Newman House will bring together a diverse cross-section of international scholars, the Irish university experience of revolution can begin to be contextualised as an … Continue reading Universities in Revolution and State Formation
This workshop focuses on the contribution to and role of the professional archivist in the Decade of Centenaries. The daylong session will explore what the professional archivist does and how their work impacts on national commemorative activities. Since the 1970s UCD has pioneered professional education for archivists in Ireland. This one-day event will showcase the work of archivists, many of whom are UCD graduates, who … Continue reading Fevered Archivists
The weekly RTE Radio 1 programme The History Show and the organisers of the annual Hay Literary Festival in Kells have joined forces to launch a centenary commemorative event to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the ill-fated WW1 Dardanelles campaign. The three-day event will commence on the evening of Friday, 24 April with the delivery of the Francis Ledwidge Memorial Lecture by … Continue reading RTE History Show and Hay Festival
Joined by UCD Ad Astra oboe soloist Lukas O’Brien and harpist Geraldine O’Doherty, and under the direction of their Artistic Director, Dr Desmond Earley, UCD Choral Scholars will perform a programme of music entitled ‘Desolation’. The programme will include works by Victoria, Buchenberg, Mauersberger, Schütz, Kuhnau and others. For many, 2014 was characterised by thoughts of commemoration, by the first acts of remembrance honouring past … Continue reading DESOLATION
Co-organised by Boston College Dublin, RTÉ Century Ireland, and University College Dublin This is a free public event and all are welcome. No advance booking required. On Thursday 23 April at 7pm, the National Library of Ireland will host a public lecture by Professor Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen entitled This lecture examines the commemorative ‘afterlife’ of a single, self-contained WWI battlefield: the Gallipoli … Continue reading “Johnnies and Mehmets … side by side” The redemptive afterlife of Gallipoli in Australia, Turkey and Ireland
Free Family Events – RTÉ Road to the Rising explores Ireland in the run up to the Revolution, as well as the ideas, people and the socio-economic forces which would shape the events of Easter Week 1916. Experience Irish life as it was 100 years ago as O’Connell Street becomes an Edwardian thoroughfare, evoking the atmosphere of the capital in 1915. Explore vintage displays and … Continue reading University College Dublin at RTE Road to the Rising
In April 1922, George Gavan- Duffy, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the new provisional government for southern Ireland, articulated a fear that the looming Irish civil war had the potential to do lasting damage to Ireland’s reputation abroad and the fledging Free State’s dignity. He insisted that those on both sides of the debate about the Treaty signed with Britain five months earlier to bring … Continue reading A nation and not a rabble: the Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
Prof Andrew Murphy (University of St Andrews) gave a public lecture on Shakespeare, drama and several key figures of the 1916 Rising, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly. The lecture was part of the UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures, an annual series of public lectures on Shakespeare, notably in the Irish context, and organised in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. Previous speakers in … Continue reading Acts of Rebellion: Shakespeare and the 1916 Rising
A public exhibition relating to the centenary of the 1914 Dublin Civic Exhibition designed and constructed by students from UCD School of Architecture and the National Film School IADT . The 1914 Dublin Civic Exhibition had over 110,000 visitors and attempted to reimagine Dublin as ‘the phoenix of cities’ during a period of economic, political and social strife. The exhibition provided a broad view of … Continue reading City, Assembled
Under the title of “Acts and Arms: The Road to Woodenbridge, September 1914″, this exhibition is timed to tie in with two major commemorative milestones. On 18 September, the Government of Ireland Act (1914) was signed into law. On 20 September, John Redmond made his famous speech at Woodenbridge, exhorting the Irish Volunteers to join the British armed forces, thus splitting the Irish Volunteer movement. … Continue reading Acts and Arms: The Road to Woodenbridge, September 1914
This conference was a collaboration between the UCD Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS) and the Ulster Museum to complement the ‘Art of the Troubles’ exhibition on show at the museum. It explored the role of art and artistic interventions in reshaping social relations in Northern Ireland. Conflict and division within Northern Ireland has often been seen to relate to differing modes of belonging: Clashes occur at … Continue reading Art of the Troubles: Culture, Conflict and Commemoration
This event, titled ‘Hidden Histories: Revisiting the Spirit of 1913’, examined the different perspectives of social mobilisation at the turn of the century, focusing, but not solely, on 1913 and including topics such as the suffrage movement and urban/rural unrest. The keynote speaker was Joan Burton, TD, Minister for Social Protection. Session One: Setting the Contex Chair: Paul Gillespie Myrtle Hill: What did Women Want? Female … Continue reading Hidden histories: Revisiting the spirit of 1913