Public lecture & book launch

9 October, 6pm, Abbey Centre Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

Talk: ‘Hidden histories: vanished traces of Ballyshannon’s past’ followed by the launch of Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 32: Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaidh with guest speaker Dr Easkey Britton

Free; all welcome.

Talk & book signing

19 October, 2pm, The Wee Hall, Culdaff, Co. Donegal

Marking the publication of Finding Mary: The Untold Story of an Inishowen Murder, 1844

Free; all welcome.

Public lecture

22 October, 6pm, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse St, Dublin 2

‘Dubliners in Imperial Russia’ hosted by the Old Dublin Society

More details here

Public lecture & book launch

30 October, 6pm, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 2

Talk: ‘Reviving the Old Town: Tracing Ballyshannon’s Past’

Followed by launch of Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 32: Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaidh and the digital atlas of Ballyshannon

with guest speaker David Dickson

Free; all welcome

History Ireland hedge school

6 November, 5pm, Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

Panel discussion: ‘Mapping the Old Town’ with myself, Tommy Graham and Pauric Travers

Free; all welcome. More details here.

Talk & book signing

27 November, 6pm, Central Library, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

‘The Murder of Mary Doherty, 1844’

Free; all are welcome

Public lecture

13 April, 12pm, Colgan Hall, Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

‘Honoria Galwey and “the People’s Music”: The World of a Nineteenth-Century Inishowen Folk Music Collector’

Free; all welcome. Full details here.

Public lecture

20 February, 8pm

Navan & District Historical Society

‘The Irish in Romanov Russia: Some Meath Connections’

Public lecture

25 April, 8pm, St Patrick’s Gateway Centre, Waterford

‘”The Tsar is Far Away”: Revd Robert Walsh, a Waterford Chaplain in Imperial Russia’

More details here

Book launch

3 October, 6pm, Hodges Figgis, Dublin 2

Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia

All are welcome. Please RSVP here.

History Ireland Hedge School

29 September, 3pm, The Substation, Alexandra Rd, D1

I’ll be part of a panel discussing the question, ‘Is Irish History Sea Blind?’

Booking is essential; see https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/history-ireland-hedge-school-is-irish-history-sea-blind/

Dublin Festival of History talk

7 October, 6pm, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2

‘Irish Women in Russia in the Age of the Tsars’

More details at https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/irish-women-in-russia-in-the-age-of-the-tsars/