The ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage’ project has its roots in a pilot project, ‘The Army Barracks of Eighteenth-Century Ireland’. That project was was led by Ivar McGrath, Patrick Walsh and Suzanne Forbes, and supported by seed funding from UCD Research, a research award from UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies and an IRC …
Author Archives: Suzanne Forbes
Barracks Map Launch Events
The ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage’ project team are delighted to invite you to the launch of their online map of historic army barracks in Ireland at two events in late February 2024, as follows: Dublin Launch Event Date: Tuesday, 27 February Time: 6.30pm Location: Irish Georgian Society, City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2, D02 …
UCD Webinar on 25 January
Dr Charles Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University) will be presenting a paper for the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures webinar on at 12-1pm, Thursday 25 January. The presentation will be entitled: ‘Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army …
Dublin Festival of History
Dr Charles Ivar McGrath and Dr Suzanne Forbes will be giving two talks about the Our Shared Built Military Heritage project as part of the Dublin Festival of History. The first talk will be held at Richmond Barracks on 4 October at 7 pm. For more information see: https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/our-shared-built-military-heritage-the-online-mapping-inventorying-and-recording-of-the-army-barracks-of-ireland-1690-1921/ The second talk will be held at …
Eighteenth-Century Ireland Annual Conference 2023
Suzanne Forbes, one of the co-leads of the Our Shared Built Military History project, will present a paper about the project at the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Annual Conference, to be held in Dublin City University on Friday, 16 June 2023. For further information about the event, visit the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society’s Annual Conference webpage.
imagine! Belfast Festival 2023
Uncovering the stories of Ireland’s Army Barracks, Thursday, March 23, 2023 – 19:00 to 20:00. This online session will introduce the ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage’ project, a HEA North South Research Programme funded collaboration between The Open University and University College Dublin which aims to map residential army barracks constructed on the island of Ireland between 1690 …
Army Barracks of Ireland 