Irish Military Seminar

Ireland has a long, proud military tradition. 

Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge

Event Details

  • Sat 9 Jun  2018
  • 8.45am

  • Cost: €5

  • Venue Details
    Riverbank Arts Centre

    Main St.
    Newbridge



The aim of this seminar is to look at all aspects of Irish military history, drawing chiefly on events and personnel from within our nation’s past. Great episodes in Ireland’s history are intermingled with escapades in far-off places like South Africa, Flanders and the U.S.A.

Hosted by Kildare County Council and the Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee, in association with JuneFest, Prosperous Heritage Festival, Ireland’s Military Story, Merrion Press, Creative Ireland and Into Kildare.

An amazing line up again this year. Please come along or share the information with your friends or organisations or individuals you may think would be interested.

Irish Military Seminar 8-9 June 2018, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge

SATURDAY (Admin Fee €5)

8.45 – 9.15 a.m. Registration – Tea & Coffee
9.20 – 9.25 a.m. Welcome
9.30 – 10.15 a.m. Zulu. The Defence of Rorke’s Drift – Dan Harvey
10.20 – 11.05 a.m. What Did The Women Do Anyway? The Role of Women in the Struggle for Irish Freedom 1918-1923 – Liz Gillis
11.05 – 11.30 a.m. Tea/Coffee Break
11.35 a.m. – 12.20 p.m. Recovering the voices of the Union Irish: The forgotten letters of Ireland’s American Civil War dead – Damian Shiels
12.25 – 13.10 p.m. Oliver Cromwell and the conquest of Ireland: His greatest failure? – Professor Miche??l ?? Siochr??
13.10 – 14.25 p.m. LUNCH (at own expense)
14.30 – 15.15 p.m. Granuaile – Grace O’Malley: Ireland's Pirate Queen (1530-1603). The life and times of an iconic pioneer and feminist – Anne Chambers
15.20 – 16.05 p.m. The significance of Irish involvement in World War I: A review – Neil Richardson
16.30 p.m. Close of seminar

Saturday €5.00. Includes complimentary tea and coffee break. Lunch at own expense. 

On the Saturday night we will facilitate a performance of The Birth of a Nation concert which was last performed in Lexington, Kentucky as part of the Twinning anniversary there in October.

20.00 p.m. Saturday, 9 June: 'Birth of a Nation’ a musical extravaganza set against the backdrop of Irish history up to the founding of the modern Irish State; featuring songs and music from the period. A marvellous, sometimes whimsical, but often tragic journey, guaranteed to move and entertain. Script by Mario Corrigan. Paul Linehan, Tenor, Ann Cullen, Piano and Violin, and Liam Quinlivan, Narrator.  Admission €10

Songs include:-  The West's Asleep; The Minstrel Boy; Boolavogue; Danny Boy; A Nation Once Again; Oro 'Se do bheatha 'bhaile; The Foggy Dew

Details are available at: www.riverbank.ie/event/the-birth-of-a-nation/

Booking essential via Riverbank Arts Centre Box Office.
Email: boxoffice@riverbank.ie
Tel: 045 448327
Info: www.riverbank.ie/event/talk-irish-military-seminar/


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