Book Launch

Two DCU Historians, Dr Marnie Hay and Professor Daire Keogh, recently launched their edited collection of essays, Rebellion and Revolution in Dublin:  Voices from a Suburb, Rathfarnham, 1913-23 (Dublin: South Dublin Libraries, 2016), at the Pearse Museum in St. Enda's Park on 16 October 2016 as part of the Red Line Book Festival.

This attractively illustrated book explores connections between the Irish Revolution and the people and places of the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.  Among the contributors are Senator Michael McDowell, former political advisor and TD Martin Mansergh, senior historians Mary E. Daly and Michael Laffan, art curator ?imear O'Connor, NUI Galway's 1916 Scholar in Residence and St. Patrick's College alumnus Conor McNamara.

The book is available for €15 from any South Dublin Library or online from http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/bookstore