Maynooth College and The Easter Rising

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 13:30

Photo: Professor Philip Nolan and Monsignor Hugh Connolly with exhibition curators Dr Eamon Darcy, Susan Leyden and Barbara McCormack at the launch of ‘Maynooth College and 1916’. Alan Monahan

An exhibition relating to Maynooth College and the Easter Rising was launched on Wednesday, 2nd March at 4.30 pm in the historic Russell Library as part of Maynooth University’s programme of commemorative events. ‘Maynooth College and 1916: An Exhibition’ is a collaboration between Maynooth University Library and St. Patrick’s College Maynooth which tells the story of Maynooth College during the Easter Rising.

The exhibition is running in the Russell Library until June 2016 before it moves to the John Paul II Library for the months of July and August.