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The GAA Museum: Remembering Bloody Sunday 1920

Croke Park was the site of one of the most horrific events of the War of Independence on Bloody Sunday. A new exhibition commemorates the centenary.
bloody sunday • 19 Nov 20

Black Women in History

October is Black History Month. In this extract from her book Black Women in History, artist and writer Charlot Kristensen celebrates the lives of extraordinary heroines from scientists to liberators - and explains why she embarked on the project
History • 22 Oct 20

Seán Treacy: a life - and death - in images

Seán Treacy was shot dead on 14 October 1920. A new exhibition in Kilmainham Gaol Museum marks the centenary with this collection of images and artefacts
History • 29 Oct 20

Portraits and Pamphlets: A Cumann na mBan Gallery

From their founding in 1914 through the War of Independence and into the Civil War, the work of Cumann na mBan can be seen in photographs, handbills and more
History • 27 May 20

National Library of Ireland: From Turmoil to Truce

History • 29 Oct 20

In Pictures: Hunger Strikes and Protests

On Easter Monday, 5 April 1920, thirty-six Irish Volunteer prisoners in Mountjoy pledged 'not to eat food or drink anything except water until all here have been given prisoner-of-war treatment or are released.'
History • 27 May 20

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