🇮🇹 We are so excited to host the second edition of the Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland on the 28th of September. 🔎Check out the full programme in the images below. #FIILI2024 #HubMatters

German prisoners are treated by American soldiers during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. American and French troops took the St.-Mihiel Salient in 36 hours and made, some report 15,000 prisoners. September 12th 1918.

We are saddened by the passing of Fred Johnston and grateful to have published his poetry and fiction in recent issues of Southword.

The Embassy was delighted to welcome Rebekah Robinson from Portadown who is finishing up her research with In Flanders Fields Museum ✍️ Rebekah shared her experience of contributing to the invaluable work in identifying Irish soldiers who died during WW1.🕊️ We wish her luck with her studies!🇮🇪

We are presenting video archives at the Munster Literature Centre, 84 Douglas street for Culture Night, 20th September. The showing will include interviews and readings from the likes of Frank O’Connor and Edna O’Brien. Drop in any time from 4–6 p.m. #OneNightForAll #OícheDárSaol

In next week's #CorkCity #Roadshow Cork City Libraries, Lynn Kilgallon will introduce the rich medieval records in the VRTI - from everyday financial records of the Irish 'receipt rolls' to criminal pardons 🧐, revealing 'Corke' City's people, places & past.

Excited that our Atlas of the Irish Civil War is launching today National Library of Ireland The Atlas sheds new light on a tumultuous, tragic and complex period in Irish history. Click for more information bit.ly/UCCIR24

A date for the diary: 10 October, my lecture on the history of the Freeman’s Journal (an event in the Dublin Festival of History), 6.30 @ Pearse Street Public Library. Dublin Festival of History NPHFI dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/a-great-…

1924 was a busy year for Irish chess, between John O'Hanlon's appearance at the Paris Chess Olympics and the game also featuring at that year's Tailteann Games in Dublin. By Oliver O'Hanlon UCC Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

1924 was a busy year for Irish chess, between Armaghman John O'Hanlon's appearance at the Paris Chess Olympics and the game also featuring at that year's Tailteann Games in Dublin. By Oliver O'Hanlon UCC Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Tax Him catalog.archives.gov/id/6011078

Irish nationalist, Glasgow Boy, British state artist Read about the enigma of John Lavery by @gregchthomas 👉 artuk.org/discover/stori… 'The Blue Hungarians' by John Lavery (1856–1941) 📷 Fleming Collection

The trainspotter in me very much likes this 1973 Post Office poster

How quickly did I click on this: My favorite writer's impressions of a place near to where I once lived. Article by Oliver O'Hanlon in the Irish Times; surfaced in the excellent Patrick Leigh Fermor blog run by Tom Sawford patrickleighfermor.org/2024/09/14/hib…

In 2018, the #UlsterMuseum received a donation from the Northern Ireland Prison Service - material which related predominantly, but not exclusively, to the HMP Maze. Explore some of the collections most fascinating items with Rebecca Laverty → bit.ly/4e1dhSQ

The 2025 SOFEIR conference will be in UCC Ireland #Cork 21-22 March 2025 Theme: IRELAND AND TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITIES Call for Papers closes: 16 December 2024 sofeir.fr/cfp-ireland-an…

Shut Up and Write et séances de lecture de l'Adeffi (en ligne) fabula.org/actualites/122…

100 YEARS AGO... Le Petit Journal illustré gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… Gallica BnF Les troubles en Chine

I will be speaking at University of Nanterre on Wednesday December 18 on the topic of 'Une microhistoire coloniale croisée. Le projet de colonisation des Irlandais dans l’Est algérien'. Do come along if you're about. idhes.parisnanterre.fr/manifestations…