Project | Location | Date |
“What is a Republic?” Public discussion with Prof. Kevin Whelan, French Ambassador Thebault and more speakers. | Gorey Library | 25th of November 2015 |
Launch of dedicated website to promote the Co. Wexford 1916 centenary commemorative programme with links to the National 2016 website. | www.enniscorthy1916.ie | 9th November, 2015 |
‘Co. Wexford Personalities of The 1916 Rising’ – a booklet by Bernard Browne, Historian. | Co. Wexford. | 4th Quarter 2015 |
Historical Workshop: ‘Reading the Rising : an examination of the literature of 1916,’ by Ciara L. Murphy, University College, Galway. | Wexford County Library & Enniscorthy Library, Co. Wexford. | 26th September, 17th October, 7th & 28th November, 2015 |
Launch of County Wexford Schools Pack. This teaching resource will enable students both primary and secondary level to learn and understand the events of the 1916 in their own county. | The Presentation Centre, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
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2nd December, 2015 |
Historical Workshops: ‘Reading the Rising : an examination of the literature of 1916 – will include elements addressing literature of 1916 written in the Irish Language’. | Wexford & Enniscorthy Libraries, Co. Wexford. | 26th September, 17th October,
7th & 28th November, 2015 |
Historical Lecture: ‘Indomitable Revolutionaries: the women of Easter Week, 1916’ by Dr. Conor McNamara. | Enniscorthy Library, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. | 10th September, 2015 |
Historical Lecture: ‘The Rise of the Irish Volunteers- The Enniscorthy Experience’ by Dr. William Murphy, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin. | Enniscorthy Library, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. | 8th October,
2015 |
Historical Lecture: The art of Sean Keating: an Irish artist’s response to revolution and the creation of the Irish Free State’ by Elaine Hoysted, University College Cork. | New Ross Library, New Ross, Co. Wexford. | 13th October, 2015 |
Historical Lecture: ‘British Intelligence and 1916’ by Eunan O’Halpin, Professor of Contemporary Irish History and International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin | Wexford County Library, Wexford | 22nd October, 2015 |
Historical Lecture: ‘William Butler Yeats: where myth, history and lived experience battle it out with dramatic intensity’ by Dr. Derek Coyle, Carlow College. | Wexford County Library, Wexford. | 27th October, 2015 |
Historical Lecture: ‘The Other Rising- Enniscorthy in 1916,’ by author Helen Ashdown. | Enniscorthy Library, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. | 12th November, 2015 |