
Maps, medieval walls and the port of Dublin feature amongst Dublin’;s history festival events today.
The festival from 27 September to 13 October 2024 features 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 rich history of Dublin through various activities and exhibitions.
Thursday October 3
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am 18 Ormond Quay Upper – 1840s Merchant House Guided Tours
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am History tours of the Irish Architectural Archive
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Flowerboard Art Programme Photo Exhibition
- 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Behind the maps: Dublin in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas
- 11:15 am – 1:15 pm Around Dublin’s Medieval Walls, with Dublin Decoded tours
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ‘Tracking Change and Turmoil: the Paintings of William Orpen (1878-1931)’
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 18 Ormond Quay Upper – 1840s Merchant House Guided Tours
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Catherine McAuley and the Mission of Mercy
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Landscapes of the Port: From Reclamation to Preservation
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tour of Arbour Hill Cemetery – who were these leaders
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Registry of Deeds Lunch Time Tour
- 1:10 pm – 2:00 pm Neglected reputations: The forgotten Yeats sisters, Susan and Elizabeth.
- 3 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm 1798, a Woman’s World
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tour of Arbour Hill Cemetery – who were these leaders
- 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm 18 Ormond Quay Upper – 1840s Merchant House Guided Tours
- 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Catherine McAuley and the Mission of Mercy
- 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Walking Tour – Port to Gallery
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tour of Arbour Hill Cemetery – who were these leaders
- 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Book Cultures and Surgical Training in Early Modern London.
- 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm 18 Ormond Quay Upper – 1840s Merchant House Guided Tours
- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Hard of Hearing Tour of An Túr Gloine Exhibition
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Histories and Mysteries of Book Publishing
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Shackleton’s 1909 Dublin lecture and the Lady Dudley nurses
- 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm T. K. Whitaker: Irishman of the 20th Century
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm A Bridge Too Far – Cornelius Ryan with Philip Lecane
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The IRA War on Entertainments
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Dublin/Monaghan Bombings – Fifty Years On
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Battle of Cabra Baths and other 20th century histories
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Down by the River Poddle
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Drumcondra’s Story Through Maps
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Football in Dublin: The makings of the people’s game
- 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm Kate Mosse – Map of Bones
- 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm A City of Voices, How Dublin 4 Shaped Irish Radio
Friday October 4
- 11:00 am – 11:45 am Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm History Tour of Pearse Lyons Distillery
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm A Dublin Day – Monday July 6th 1925
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm The port of Dublin in time of famine
- 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Dead Interesting Tour of Glasnevin Cemetery
- 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Flowerboard Art Programme Photo Exhibition
- 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Walking Tour – Port to Gallery
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Bodysnatchers, Surgeons and Insurgents: the History of RCSI
Saturday October 5
- 9:30 am – 5:00 pm 25th Medieval Dublin Symposium
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am Who should pay for the Water: Malahide Water Supply Controversy
- 10:00 am – 11:30 am Lord Charlemont’s Life after the Grand Tour
- 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Gerald Boland biography launch. Revolutionary Women. Fenian History.
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Flowerboard Art Programme Photo Exhibition
- 10:30 am – 11:30 am Tours at the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology 5 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Children’s Workshop: Create your own history trail
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Children of the Revolution Tour
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Richmond Barracks: Creating a Timeline
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Children’s History Tours
- 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Turas Siúil ó Dhún Richmond go Chill Mhaighneann (Richmond Barracks to Kilmainham)
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Dublin locations associated with AE Russell and PL Travers
- 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Between the Bridges’ – Bloody Sunday Bridge on Jones’ Road and ‘Luke Kelly’ bridge in Ballybough
- 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Surprising Survivals: The Fire of 1922
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm ‘Dismissed – to the general joy of ye family’
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Children’s History Tours
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tours at the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Walking Tour – Port to Gallery
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Walking Tour of Marino
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Game, Set, Match: The History of Sports in Irish Society
- 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Turas Siúil ó Dhún Richmond go Reilig an Droichid Órga (Goldenbridge Cemetery)
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Print History for all the family
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tours at the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Aspects of the History of Kenure House and Estate
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Game, Set, Match: The History of Sports in Irish Society
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Children’s History Tours
- 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm A virtual tour of the Irish Labour History Society Museum
- 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Family Walking Tour: Hidden Histories Hunt
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Children’s History Tours
- 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Ancient Pile undergoes Improvement: Howth Castle in the early 1900s
- 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tours at the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm The Early History of Fairview and Marino
- 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Remembering Grangegorman: Storysharing
Sunday October 6
- 10:30 am – 11:50 am Dublinia Family Tour
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Irish History Tour of the National Gallery of Ireland
- 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Clonsilla & Royal Canal Heritage Walk
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm The Medieval Mile
- 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Drawing Historic Dublin
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Children’s Workshop Online: The Big History Quiz
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm The Way We Wore: Representations of Social Change through Clothing
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm History of Dublin – Walking Tour in Cantonese
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Pints, Publicans & Glasnevin’s Forgotten Past
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm The Way We Wore: Representations of Social Change through Clothing
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm The ‘Kauffman’ ceiling paintings formerly at Rathfarnham Castle
- 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm ‘Escape by Victory?: Ireland and the post-war refugee question’
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Stanford 100: Pipeworks Organ Recitals at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Monday October 7
- 11:00 am – 11:45 am Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm History Tour of Pearse Lyons Distillery
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm A New Dawn in Irish Theatre: The Journey from Mountjoy to the Somme
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm All in Good Time: the fascinating history of Dublin’s public clocks
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Two Irish Women Who Moved Heaven and Earth for India’s Independence
- 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland (1596): Re-Appraised
- 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm The Grateful Water: Writing Nineteenth-Century Dublin in Fiction
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm The Disappeared: Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Irish Women in Russia in the age of the Tsars
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Service Terminated: The Last Tram from Dartry
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The 1924 Tailteann Games
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Building New Ireland: First Decade of the Irish Free State
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm From Sackville to O’Connell
- 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm FAI Amateur XI vs Gold Coast August 1951
Tuesday October 8
- 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tours of the Royal Irish Academy
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am History tours of the Irish Architectural Archive
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm One Photograph, Many Stories
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Sketching the city scenery – Harry Kernoff’s love story with Dublin
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Charles Lucas and the Campaign for Reform of Dublin Corporation 1742-60
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Print History for all the family
- 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Musical Memories at 14 Henrietta Street
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm The Aran Sweater – Stitches in Time
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Sharing Stories: An Introduction to Oral History
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Housing the People, Building the State
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Dublin as Destination: A History of Tourism in the City
- 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Grangegorman – The Transportation Story
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Getting Started in Local History Research
Wednesday October 9
- 10:30 am – 11:30 am Nicola Pierce
- 11:00 am – 11:40 am Stair agus Oidhreacht Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann 11:00 am – 11:45 am Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm History Tour of Pearse Lyons Distillery
- 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Contested Histories: the sculpture of Christ Church Cathedral re-examined
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm The Life of Frank O’Connor- Pembroke’s first Librarian
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Seamus Heaney and the Classics
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm A Bird in the House, God Bless Her
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Dublin Corporation and the first women sanitary inspectors in Ireland
- 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Culture Club: Caint ghearr ar William Butler Yeats
- 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm From Sackville to O’Connell
- 3:30 pm – 4:40 pm The Walk of Shame
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Sacraments and Suburbs: Building Catholic Dublin, 1960-80
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Walled In By Hate: Arthur Matthews and John Dorney in Conversation
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Protastúnaigh agus an Ghaeilge
- 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Disease and Illness in 18th Century Dublin
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Libera Me: Freeing the Choral Requiem From its Liturgical Confines
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The 1924 Free State Army Mutiny
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Disappearing workplaces: The Janelle Centre and similar enterprises in Finglas
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Last Land War
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Irish Food History with Three Castles Burning
- 6:30 pm – 7:40 pm IFI & Dublin Festival of History –Women & Amateur Film in Focus
- 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Cathy Scuffil unravels the story of The Dolphin’s Barn Brick Company
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ‘Past Lives’: The Memorials of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The records of Dublin’s lost railway companies
- 7:45 pm – 8:45 pm The Bossmen: The Many Managers of St Patrick’s Athletic, from Stevenson to Stephen K.
- 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm History of Cantonese Diaspora in Ireland
Thursday October 10
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am History tours of the Irish Architectural Archive
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Kilmainham – early development of a Dublin Suburb
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm A Polish migrant in 20th Century Dublin: three years in the life of Stasko Markiewicz.
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Registry of Deeds Lunch Time Tour
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Behind the Scenes of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Centenary of the Irish Courts, 1924-2024
- 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Forfeited estates of 1688 in Ireland: an account from 1702-1703
- 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tour of Busáras & Áras Mhic Dhiarmada
- 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm SCREENING: May-17-74: Anatomy of a Massacre
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Mick O’Dea in Conversation
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Belfast: The Story of a City and its People
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Mick O’Dea in Conversation
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Fingal Deaths during the First World War
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm From Sackville to O’Connell
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Animal City: Dublin in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm ‘A Great Daily Organ’ the Freeman’s Journal, 1763-1924
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Marlborough House – State Collusion With Abuse 1944 to 1972
- 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Fleapits, Palaces and Multiplexes: A History of Dublin Cinemas
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm For the Republic:The life of Cathal Brugha, 1874-1922
- 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Festival of History at DIAS Dunsink Observatory
- 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Talk on Civil War Dublin Metropolitan Police Book 1922/23
- 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Launch of the Drimnagh Historical Map
- 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Two talks at the GAA Museum
Friday October 11
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am ‘The Work Before Us’ Centenary of the Irish Tourist Association
- 11:00 am – 11:45 am Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm History Tour of Pearse Lyons Distillery
- 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Parnell Square Walking Tour – Dublin’s Finest Square
- 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Tours of our newest exhibition ‘The Practice of Medicine’
- 11 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm ‘May Almighty prosper you . . . these gifts will make me all right’: emigrant remittances and the family in post-Famine Ireland
- 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Governing Dublin in the Viking-Age
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Asylum Workshop (Documentary screening)
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Development of the Marino Estate
- 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm The 1924 Army Mutiny and its consequences
Saturday October 12
- 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Exploring the archives: Create a historical comic with Clare Foley, workshop for teens
- 10:30 am – 11:30 am Old Liffey Ferry Historic Liffey Boat Tour
- 10:30 am – 1:30 pm Remembering Grangegorman: Share and Tell
- 10:30 am – 6:00 pm 1974-2024: 50 years of Alliance Française at 1 Kildare Street
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Children’s History Workshop: Barracks Escape Room
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Getting Away with It? Women and Murder in Post-Independence Ireland
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Museums: Constructing History Tour
- 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Lockout to Independence walking tour
- 11:30 am – 1:00 pm The Camac in Inchicore-Kilmainham – Small Stream, Mighty River
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Walking Tour of Marino
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Walking Tour – Port to Gallery
- 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Balbriggan & District Historical Society Pop Up Museum
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Taste of History – The History of Food and Drink 12 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Taste of History – The History of Food and Drink
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Devil and the Knock-Down: Social History of the Printing Trade
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Taste of History – The History of Food and Drink
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Children’s History Book Club: Dickensian Dublin with Alan Nolan
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Turas Treoraithe ar Bully’s Acre agus reiligí an Ospidéil Ríoga, Cill Mhaighneann
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Holy Wells of North Dublin
- 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Exploring the archives: Create a historical comic with Clare Foley
- 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm The history of patchwork and its introduction to Ireland
- 2:45 pm – 4:45 pm Hands on History: From Barracks to Museum
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm A Revolutionary Couple: The Lives of Tom and Kathleen Clarke
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm The Journey of Pride
- 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Cearta na bPríosúnach: Oíche Chultúir le Cartlann Chonradh na Gaeilge
Sunday October 13
- 10:30 am – 11:50 am Dublinia Family Tour
- 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Stanford 100: Choral Matins
- 11:15 am – 1:15 pm Celebrating 40 years of the DART in Dublin
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Old Liffey Ferry Historic Liffey Boat Tour
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Parnell Square Walking Tour – Dublin’s Finest Square
- 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Balbriggan & District Historical Society Pop Up Museum 13 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm The Royal Hospital Cemeteries: A Bodysnatching Tour
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Recovered Voices: Stories of the Irish during World War One
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm The Custom House and the Irish Workhouse System Tour
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Recovered Voices: Stories of the Irish during World War One
- 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Stanford 100: Pipeworks Organ Recitals at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral