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26/01/2016

Spring Lecture Series at the GAA Museum - Lecture 2

Date:           Monday 15th February 2016
Time:          19.00
Location:    The GAA Museum, Croke Park

Noted historian Tim Pat Coogan will give an account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the 1916 Rising. Tim Pat will highlight the impact the utilisation of the Orange Card by the English Conservatives had on setting the scene for the Rising, while also introducing the major players, themes and outcomes of a drama that would profoundly affect 20th century Irish history.

Tim Pat Coogan is one of Ireland's best known historical writers. His first book, Ireland since the Rising (1966) was a pioneering work, the first history of the fifty years that followed the 1916 Rising. Subsequent publications include biographies of both Michael Collins (1990) and Eamon de Valera (1993); a study of the Irish diaspora Wherever Green is Worn (2012) and 1916: The Mornings After (2015). 

This is the second in a new series of lectures hosted by the GAA Museum. The series - ‘Revolutionary Ireland 1913 – 1923’ will see distinguished historians present a series of engaging lectures over six consecutive weeks, looking at various facets of the revolutionary period in Ireland. These lectures will appeal to anyone with an interest in Irish history.

The full programme of speakers and lectures is:
  • Monday 8th February: Aogán Ó Fearghail, Gaelic Sunday 1918
  • Monday 15th February: Tim Pat Coogan, The 1916 Rising
  • Monday 22nd February: Paul O’Brien, The 1916 Rising Battlefields
  • Monday 29th February: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, A Nation and Not a Rabble: New Perspectives on the Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
  • Monday 7th March: Dr. William Murphy, Repression and Resistance: the uses of prison during the Irish revolution, 1915-1923
  • Monday 14th March: Liz Gillis, What Did the Women Do Anyway?

All lectures will take place in the GAA Museum auditorium and will commence at 7pm.

Tickets for each lecture are €10 and there is a special package price of €50 for all six lectures. Tickets can be purchased here
 
For further information contact:

Mark Reynolds, Archivist – The GAA Museum
on 01 819 2350 or via email to [email protected]
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