Come Here To Me!

So far, there have been three History Ireland Hedge Schools, discussing a wide range of subjects from Red Hugh O’Donnell to the Dublin punk and new wave scenes. These issues have been discussed and debated in a variety of settings, from a tent in Laois during Electric Picnic to a great outdoors session at Phibsboro Library.

The next one takes place this Saturday at 3pm in the RDS as part of the ‘Back To Our Past’ social history exhibition. Among the exhibitors there will be History Ireland themselves, Glasnevin Museum, the Genealogical Society of Ireland and Irish Roots Magazine. There is a ten euro entrance cost on the door, but if you’re crafty there’s a voucher for fiver admission in the current issue of History Ireland.

Anyway, the Hedge School…..

3pm: Daniel O’Connell: Liberator or Demagogue?
Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting the latest in an ongoing series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities. Tommy will be joined by Patrick Geoghegan,TCD and Newstalk’s ‘Talking History’, Kevin Whelan, director, Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD and Shane Mac Thomáis,Glasnevin Trust to discuss the topic: Daniel O’Connell: liberator or demagogue?
Please note: this discussion will take place in the Main Presentation Theatre and NOT the genealogy/family history presentation area.

“His eloquence came down upon the vast assembly like a summer thunder-shower upon a dustyroad”
American civil rights campaigner Frederick Douglass on witnessing an O’ Connell oration.