1916 -local dimensions

galway | history and heritage | event notice Thursday April 20, 2006 17:48 by JC

FREE Public Seminar at NUI Galway

2 day (Fri. / Sat.) conference at Centre for Human Settlement and Historical Change, NUI Galway. Admission free, all welcome

Friday's programme

3.30. John Cunningham. 'The town of Galway on the eve of the rising'

4.05. Conor McNamara. 'The role of Galway’s loyal citizens in suppressing the 1916 rising'

4.45. Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill. 'Pearse, Connolly and Seán Mac Giollarnáth'

5.30 OFFICIAL OPENING in James Hardiman Library

8.00. Charles Townshend. 'Easter 1916: conception and planning'

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