John Boyle O'Reilly Autumn School 2015

OLD DROGHEDA SOCIETY / DROGHEDA MUSEUM MILLMOUNT

JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY AUTUMN SCHOOL 2015

GOVERNOR’S HOUSE, MILLMOUNT

SUN 18 OCT 2015

- 9.30am to 5pm –

1916 – MYTH AND REALITY

 

 

A day of the latest cutting-edge historical research, with a scope both local and national (and even international!) presented by innovative and original historians and much of which has not yet even been published!  We look again at the Easter Rising of 1916 in its social, national and European context and try to begin to unravel the myths from the historical reality of this period.
 

 

 

We also will have an update on the ongoing research into the sensational revelations in the recently discovered John Boyle O’Reilly letter of May 1870. This will be given by O’Reilly’s biographer - leading historian, writer and broadcaster Ian Kenneally.

 

Drogheda in 1915 – The Calm Before the Storm  -  Millmount Research Unit

The Battles of the Easter Rising – Military historian Paul O’Brien

 

 

Arthur Griffith and the Easter Rising – Gerard Shannon

 

The Irish Citizen Army and the Easter Rising  – Dr. Mary Muldowney

Cumann na mBan in County Louth – Ailbhe Rogers

Special Report on New John Boyle O’Reilly Revelations – Ian Kenneally

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€15 including light lunch

To book: email info@droghedamuseum.ie    or phone 041-9833097 

Old Drogheda Society

Drogheda Museum Millmount,

History, Archaeology & Heritage, 

Governor's House,

Millmount,

Drogheda,

Co. Louth, Ireland,

0419833097