Sunday next 30th March at 7.30 pm the Cle Club will present a dramatic musical and theatrical entertainment based on songs, music, blasts and benedictions of playwright Sean O’Casey. Sunday next is Sean’s Birthday and for the occasion his daughter Shivaun will be in Liberty Hall to participate in this musical celebration. O’Casey the author […]
There was a big turnout for Irish Citizen Army Commemoration in Liberty Hall on Saturday. When SIPTU President Jack O’Connor opened proceedings he asked for a minute’s silence on behalf of Shane MacThomais. It’s the first time a historian received such an accolade in Liberty Hall – maybe they did it for Sean O’Casey – […]
The formation of the Irish Citizen Army was a direct result of the 1913 Lockout but it was not until March 22nd, 1914, that it ceased to be ‘an airy nothing’, as Sean O’Casey put it, and ‘began to forge its way into the stormy centre of Irish politics’. On that day the members voted […]
This Saturday (March 8th) year a very small woman will cast a long shadow over International Women’s Day in Dublin, where a very successful campaign by Labour Youth activists has led to the naming of the new Luas Bridge across the River Liffey after Rosie Hackett, the 1913 and 1916 veteran, who was also […]
RADE’s ‘100 Years Ago’ received rave reviews when it was performed in Dublin Theatre Festival and later in December last year. There is one last performance in Liberty Hall at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, March 4th, 2014. It is being given in aid of the Simon Community. “A Hundred Years Ago” explores the dramatic events […]
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