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 …

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 …