Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Join us on 27 April at 1pm in An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University for a lunchtime talk and reading from the Letters of 1916 project.
Discover some of the hidden stories of 1916: learn about the Volunteers who fought in the Rising, and the widows left behind by those who were killed or executed; follow the fates of those who were incarcerated in Frongoch; and find out about the lives that were upturned when their businesses were destroyed as a result of the Rising.
Date: 27 April 2016
Time: 13.00
Where: An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, Iontas Building, 1st Floor
The Letters of 1916 project is the first public humanities project in Ireland. It is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916).