The Arts Council (Ireland) has just announced the nine projects that will be its 1916 Arts Programme. Department of Geography postgraduate, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, has been commissioned to produce his Casement Project. This dance project about the queer body of Roger Casement asks questions about who owns and who defines the national body. The project includes collaborations with other artists and academics and these will take place both in Ireland and in Britain.
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Letters of 1916: A year in the life’ project launches
Researchers at Maynooth University are today launching an online archive of letters written 100 years ago.
Date: Wednesday, 02 March 2016
Bridge 2016 - Alumni magazine article
The Bridge, Alumni magazine issued in December 2015 has an interesting article on 'Maynooth College and 1916' exhibition.
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Historic Mount Street comes to Digital Life
Researchers at Maynooth University and Trinity College Dublin, in conjunction with the Humanities Virtual Worlds Consortium and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have developed a virtual world to allow researchers and members of the public a novel way to understand The Battle of Mount Street, one of the most seminal engagements of the 1916 Rising.
Date: Friday, 20 November 2015
Fearghus Ó Conchúir wins 1916 Arts Commission
Fearghus Ó Conchúir wins 1916 Arts Commission
Date: Monday, 10 August 2015
World War One soldier’s diary placed online by Maynooth University
A digitised and fully transcribed version of an Irish World War One soldier’s diary, offering an intimate first-hand account of life on the Western Front in 1918, has been made available online.
Date: Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Irish soldiers in First World War
A former seminarian appears in the Irish Times
Date: Thursday, 21 August 2014