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On Thursday 23 February 2017 Glasnevin Trust and Trinity College Dublin will present the fifth in a series of lectures on ‘Ireland and the world after the Rising’. Liz Gillis (RTÉ) will present a lecture entitled ‘The Hales brothers and the Irish revolution...

The opening and closing times for this year's show have recently been changed. They are not the same as previous years. Back to Our Past is now opening earlier (at 11am each day) and closing earlier (at 6pm each day, instead of 7pm). As a result, the...

This is a transcript of the 2013 Newman Lecture delivered on Wednesday at Monash University’s Mannix College. Let me quote a much-respected contemporary Australian scholar and philosopher, Raimond Gaita. [W]e must preserve the unworldly space...

Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, father of ‘Silken’ Thomas. This image appears on the dust jacket of the new book on the Geraldines. On this day four hundred and eighty years ago six men were ‘…draun from the Tower in to Tyborne, and there all...

  The rising student contribution charge, third level institutions dwindling position in the QS world rankings and proposed higher education merges are developments which mark a change in the face of the higher education system in Ireland. Ronan...