Dear Friends,



All are welcome to attend our City Hall lunch-time lecture series, every Tuesday in April 2018 between 1.10-1.50 p.m . The theme is 'Doing their Bit': Irish Women and the First World War and the lectures will take place in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame Street, D2.



Admission free of charge. All welcome on a first-come, first-served basis, with the Council Chamber seating a max of 130 people. You can bring your own earphones for enhanced sound. Doors open: 12.30 p.m.



Series is curated by Dublin City Archives and accompanies a new exhibition at Dublin City Library and Archive,138-144 Pearse Street, also titled 'Doing their Bit': Irish Women and the First World War. Full programme details can be viewed on Dublin City Council website and below:



Programme



03 April:Dr. Bernard Kelly "Would you rather they stopped here to fight against us?' Enlistment, conscription and Irish women during the First World War.



10 April:Dr Yvonne McEwen. For King or Country? Irish Nurses and the Politics of Casualty Care in World War 1



17 April:Hugh McGuinness. Women and the Munitions Industry in Ireland during World War I - The Dublin Dockyard War Munitions Factory.



24 April:Dr. Fionnuala Walsh ‘The world we had known had vanished': the impact of the First World War on women in Ireland.



Speaker Biographies



Dr Bernard Kelly received his PhD from NUI Galway and did his postdoctoral research at the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in military studies, the world wars and the revolutionary period. He currently holds the Dublin City Council funded Historian-in-Residence position at Dublin City Library and Archive. @DubHistorians



Dr Yvonne McEwen is a World War 1 historian and Research Fellow at the Centre for Historical Research, World War One Research Group, The University of Wolverhampton. She is also an Hon. Research Fellow at Waterford Institute of Technology and a Project Collaborator at the University of Kent. Apart from her work on World War 1, She is recognised for her research work into the deaths of Irish men and women (all Ireland) who died as a direct consequence of their war service in World War Two. Additionally, she holds the post of Project Director, Scotland's War 1914-1919 the largest World War 1 Public Engagement project in Britain.



Hugh McGuinness is a local Historian who specialises in the histories of the Dublin 1 and 3 areas. He has published numerous articles, given lectures, and regularly provides walking tours of the areas between Clontarf and the Docklands. His current research projects include the evolution of Fairview Park 1840 to 1934; the importation of arms and munitions into Dublin's Docklands and their storage 1917-22; the Dublin Dockyard during World War I; and the Evolutionary History of Mud Island.



Dr Fionnuala Walsh lectures in the School of History, University College Dublin. She completed an Irish Research Council funded PhD in Trinity College Dublin in 2015 and subsequently returned to Trinity for an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has also previously worked in the National Library of Ireland. She is the membership secretary of the Women’s History Association of Ireland. Her publications include studies of women munition workers and infant welfare during the First World War. She is currently writing a book on Irishwomen and the First World War. @Fionnuala88 and @ucdhistory



For further information or to request a printed brochure, contact us at

cityarchives@dublincity.ie

016744997

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