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Trust News - January 2009 IssueForthcoming events at National Museum of Ireland Soldiers and Chiefs Exhibition Military History Society of Ireland, Lecture Programme Winter 2008-9 Earth Voices Whispering : An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 Review of "The Irish Brigades: 1685-2006" by Colonel W.R.H. Charley O.B.E. Invitation for Irish EX Servicemen and Women
FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT THE SOLDIERS & CHIEFS EXHIBITIONNATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND,COLLINS BARRACKS, DUBLINJANUARY TO MARCH 2009
Sunday 4th January 2009 Themed Tour for family groups – 12 noon This Museum Family Programme is a re-enactment of soldiers in the American Civil War and promises to both brilliant fun and greatly informative Places are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Saturday 17th January 2009 Adult Gallery Talk: Blaze Away: 12 noon Duelling, gun-making and sword-making in 19th century Ireland Talk by Lar Joye NMI
Sat 31st January 2009 Adult Gallery Talk: Living in Collins Barracks – 12 noon Talk by Siobhan Pierce NMI in the Barrack Life Room
Tuesday 3rd February 2009 Blaze Away Lecture Series: A History of Duelling in Ireland – 6.30 pm Lecture by Prof James Kelly on a Survey of Duelling in Ireland from 1650 to 1850
Saturday 7th February 2009 Adult Gallery Talk: Woman’s Army or auxiliary Ladies Committee? Cumann na mBan in 1914 12 noon talk by Ann Matthews in Women and the Vote
Tuesday 10th February 2009 Blaze Away Lecture Series: A History of Duelling in Ireland – 6.30 pm Lecture by Dr Harman Murtagh, Military History Society of Ireland and AIT, on “Ultimate Strength!”: Artillery in Ireland from the Armada to 1800
Tuesday 17th February 2009 Blaze Away Lecture Series: A History of Duelling in Ireland – 6.30 pm A talk and display on the evolution of small arms in the Defence Forces With Comdt Gerry Shinners and Lt Alan Kearney SPECIAL EXHIBITION : UN 50Part of Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at Home and Abroad Since 1550. I reland joined the United Nations in 1955 and since 1958 has been involved continuously in peacekeeping duties throughout the world. The UN 50 exhibition examines the role played by these Irish men and women in the cause of world peace over the last 50 years in particular looking at their service in Congo, Cyprus, Somalia, the Sinai, Lebanon, Liberia and Chad. Over 800 peacekeepers have lost their lives in the service of the United Nations of whom 10% were Irish. The exhibition continues to December 2008 and contains interactives about Irish peacekeepers and equipment from their tours in Congo and Lebanon. UN 50 is part of Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at Home and Abroad Since 1550 permanent exhibition at The National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks Dublin 7. ADMISSION to all exhibitions is FREE OF CHARGE. Right Click HERE to download UN 50 Poster The museum is open from 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday and from 2pm to 5pm on Sundays. Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays . Visit www.museum.ie *** *** ***
THE MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELANDLECTURE PROGRAMME January to April 2009
Friday 9 th January 2009 Dynamic of destruction: culture and mass killing in the First World War Professor Alan Kramer
Friday 13 th February 2009 Airships the north Irish Sea during the Great War Mr Guy Warner
Friday 13 th March 2009 Irish men and women in the French Resistance and SOE during WWII Dr David Murphy
Friday 17 th April 2009 The Confederate Washington: the militaryLeadership of Robert E. Lee Dr Patrick Geoghegan Lectures will be given at 8.00 p.m. in Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8. Non-members are welcome to all lectures
Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945
Edited by Professor Gerald Dawe of Trinity College, Dublin, this publication was supported by the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd, and was launched on the 11th November 2008 in Collins Barracks, Dublin by Mr Cathal Goan, Director General of RTÉ. It puts together in one volume, for the first time, experiences of the first and second world wars, as well as conflict in Ireland – the Easter Rising, War of Independence, the Irish Civil War – and the Spanish Civil War, in addition to various contemporary reflections on these events.
On left, Prof. Gerald Dawes with Mr. Cathal Goan, Director General R.T.E, at the launch of Earth Voices Whispering. Reviews: “What Gerald Dawe has done so movingly in this book is to bring together without any partisan judgement the poems written on all sides by Irish writers in the five – or more – wars in the thirty years of its coverage. It is an important book, full of despair, but also of a humanity that might mollify it” Bernard O’Donoghue ‘These poems are as much about our inheritance of war-memory as anything else, moving reminders of the delicate webs which draw us together with all the cheated dead.’ Clair Wills, Professor of Irish literature at Queen Mary, University of London, writing in the Irish Times Purchase "Earth Voices Whispering" by Gerald Dawe. Click here if you wish to purchase a copy of this evocative publication.
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