The Easter Uprising of 1916 with Dermot Keogh

Hosted by Neil Wilson

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Admission

Free

Saturday

Oct , 2016

4:00pm

Eastern

Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks Street • Ottawa

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The Easter Uprising of 1916 with Dermot Keogh

The origins of the long revolution lie in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its legacy is still being played out.

The insurrection of Easter Week, 1916 led to the creation of the Irish Republic and continues to have a profound impact on Irish politics and the Brexit fallout.

As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of this seminal event Dr. Dermot Keogh, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Cork, will put the political and international aspects of The Rising into context and engage us in a lively conversation that will weave together the many threads that underpin contemporary Ireland.

Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.

The Authors

Dermot Keogh

Dermot Keogh is Professor of History and Jean Monnet Emeritus Professor, at University College Cork. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, twice a Fulbright Professor, a Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC, a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, and in 2001/2 a Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of "Twentieth-Century Ireland" in the New Gill History of Ireland series, "Jack Lynch, A Biography", "Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees", "Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust" and "The Rise of the Irish Working Class: The Dublin Trade Union Movement and Labour Leadership 1890-1914", among other books on Irish history.