The Irish Civil War Part 1: From Treaty Talks to Fire at the Four Courts
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The Irish Civil War Part 1: From Treaty Talks to Fire at the Four Courts
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Central Library is delighted to present, The Irish Civil War Part 1: From Treaty Talks to Fire at the Four Courts.
2022 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. To commemorate the event, a two-part lecture series on the Civil War will be delivered in Central Library by Dr. Mary Muldowney, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence. This first lecture will discuss the period from the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the Battle of the Four Courts.
Mary Muldowney holds a PhD in History from Trinity College Dublin and a postgraduate qualification in Adult Continuing Education and Training from the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. She is the Historian in Residence for the Dublin Central area. Mary is the author of books and journal articles, often based on oral history interviews and she has a particular interest in labour and women’s history. She is a member of the Grangegorman Histories Working Group and the organising committee of the Irish Labour History Society and she was a founding member of the Oral History Network of Ireland. She is a frequent consultant on other history projects.