The Old Liffey Ferry and a tribute to Eamonn Mac Thomáis among the events in the Dublin Festival of History taking place from 27 September to 13 October 2024, with events in some of the city’s chief visitor attractions like the National Gallery, National Museum, and Dublinia.
The festival includes a special Big Weekend event at the Printworks, Dublin Castle from 27 to 29 September.
This marks the twelfth year of the festival, showcasing over 250 free events to the public.
It aims to celebrate and promote the history of Dublin through various activities and exhibitions.
Sunday September 29
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm The Trouble with Recent History
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Turas Treoraithe ar Chaisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm The outbreak of the Troubles, 1969-73: ‘Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume fourteen’
- 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Old Liffey Ferry Historic Liffey Boat Tour
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Queer Femininities of the late 19th and 20th Century Ireland
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Gaeil agus Géibheann agus Éamonn Mac Thomáis (1927-2002)
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Heroines of the Wars: Talk by Clare Mulley and Rick Stroud
- 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm History Ireland Hedge School: Is Irish history ‘sea blind’?
- 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm The Irish in the Resistance
- 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Churchill and the First World War: Talk by Peter Caddick-Adams
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Stanford 100: Pipeworks Organ Recitals at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
