Event 5
1916 Commemoration Events – Afternoon Ticket
Entry to events below with Sinead McCoole, Catriona Crowe and Padraig Yeates
– Presbyterian Church
2.00pm - Sinead McCoole
Curator, historian, author and broadcaster Sinead McCoole has made a huge contribution to the historiography and literature of the 1916 Rising with her book Easter Widows: Seven Irish Women Who Lived in the Shadow of the 1916 Rising. It explores the legacy of Easter Week in terms of the effect it had on the families deprived of husbands and sons by the British military response to the insurrection.
3.00pm - Catriona Crowe
One of this country’s great treasures is the National Archives and the greatest treasure of that institution is Catriona Crowe, historian and archivist. She examines the economic, cultural and political life of Dublin in the days before the Easter Rising.
4.00pm - Padraig Yeates
Who better to examine the effect of the 1916 Rising on the nation’s capital than ‘the historian of Dublin city’ himself? The city bore the brunt of the IRB Military Council’s Easter adventure. Historian and journalist Padraig Yeates is the author of a number critically acclaimed works on Dublin, including Lockout: Dublin 1913 and A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914–18.
