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December In-Person Tours | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

December in-person tours

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An old photograph of Ms. Brown surrounded by her belongings, outside her home in Meelin, Co. Cork, that was destroyed in a reprisal attack by the Black and Tans. 7 January 1921

Online Exhibition | From Turmoil to Truce: Photographs of the War of Independence

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Men and women of Dublin stand on the footpath at the junction of Suffolk Street, Grafton Street and Nassau Street.

Online Exhibition | Dubliners: The Photographs of JJ Clarke

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Online Exhibition | Living with Pride: The Photographs of Christopher Robson

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An artist's rendering of Dublin City after the Easter 1916 bombardment

Online Exhibition | Main Sites of Activity During the Easter Rising, 1916

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A copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic

Online Exhibition | Signatories

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A black and white photograph shows citizens standing in ruins of Patrick Street, Cork after the burning of Cork.

Online Exhibition | Witness to War: Ireland at War Through the Lens of WD Hogan

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A black and white photograph of Parkanaur House, Co. Tyrone, a grand house and gardens

Online Exhibition | Power and Privilege: The Big House in Ireland

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An enlistment poster featuring a young soldier shouldering a rifle. Text reads: "Be ONE of the 300,000" "Enlist Today and have it to say YOU helped to beat the Germans" "Go to the recruiting officer and join an Irish regiment"

Online Exhibition | World War Ireland

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A black and white protrait photograph of Terence MacSwiney

Online Exhibition | Terence MacSwiney, “a patriot of plain men”

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Ruins in Dublin City following the 1916 Easter Rising

Online Exhibition | The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives

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A black and white photo of Helen Hooker O'Malley holding a sculpture, with a bust in the background woman

Online Exhibition | A Modern Eye: Helen Hooker O'Malley's Ireland