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26/01/2016

Spring Lecture Series at the GAA Museum - Lecture 4

Date:           Monday 29^th February 2016
Time:          19.00
Location:    The GAA Museum, Croke Park

Professor Diarmaid Ferriter explores new sources and perspectives on the key historical events that took place in Ireland during the period 1913 – 1923, including the emergence of the Ulster Volunteers, the Irish Volunteers, the rise of Sinn Féin and the Irish War of Independence.
 
Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College, Dublin. His published works include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev (2007), Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012) and A Nation and Not A Rabble: The Irish Revolutions, 1913-1923 (2015).

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