Tuesday 26th April, 10:30am National Library of Ireland, Kildare St. Easter Sunday - imagery associated Admission free. Booking not necessary. Lord Mayor’s message with 1916 at the NGI. Taispeántais/ Scannán/Films 2016 is the 11th year of the award-winning A talk by Dr Katy Milligan, National Thursday 28th April, 7pm Dublin: One City, One Book Festival and this Gallery of Ireland. From One April to Another: 2016/1916. year, for the first time, readers in Belfast A Terrible Beauty. A gripping Wednesday 6th April, 5:30pm and Dublin will engage with the same book National Gallery of Ireland, Clare St. Lia Mills, UCD Arts Council Writer-in- Exhibitions docu-drama set during Easter Week Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Rd. Admission free. Booking not necessary. Residence and author of Fallen, reads at the same time for a Two Cities One Book 1916, using archival sources, historical Admission free. Booking essential. Dublin: from and discusses her new work. Festival in a partnership with Libraries NI. Citizens in Conflict- focuses on the The Story of the Capital - a new 1916 footage, character interviews and Email: [email protected] Tuesday 26th April, 1:10-1:50pm UCD Student Centre, Belfield. Pearse Street area of the city (formerly exhibition on the history of Dublin. An interviews with relatives. Followed Tel: 01 626 9324 The festival, which focuses on Fallen by Lia Mills, tells the story of Admission free. Booking essential. by Q&A with the film makers Dave Songs of the 1916 Rising with Francis Great Brunswick Street), where opportunity to view a rare, original 1916 Saturday 9th April, 2pm Dubliners against the backdrop of the dramatic events of Easter One City, Devine and friends. Email: [email protected] and Colin Farrell of Tile Media. Patrick and Willie Pearse grew up. In Proclamation, gifted to the citizens of Walkinstown Library, Percy French Rd. Week 1916, and is an important contribution to Dublin City Council’s Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame St. a spectacular setting the exhibition Dublin in the 1950s by the family of Saturday 2nd April, 2pm Admission free. Booking essential. 1916 centenary programme. Tá áit thábhachtach ag an bhFéile i One Book Admission free. Booking not necessary. Thursday 28th April, 7pm includes eye-witness accounts of the Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell. Cabra Library, Navan Rd. Email: [email protected] gClár Comórtha Céad Bliain 1916 de chuid Chomhairle Cathrach Rising and also remembers the many Info email: [email protected] Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh and 1916. The Vaults, City Hall, Dame St. Admission free. Booking essential. Tel: 01 455 8159 Bhaile Átha Cliath. civilians, including 40 children, killed in www.dublinonecityonebook.ie The Abbey Theatre’s first leading lady Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Admission free Email: [email protected] 1916. In Irish and English. Tel: 01 869 1414 Wednesday 13th April, 2:30pm 100 years ago life in Dublin and Belfast was very different – poverty Tuesday 26th April, 7pm was also a Republican activist who led Charleville Mall Library, North Strand. was rampant, the Great War was raging, women couldn’t vote and Cumann na mBan in Jacob’s Biscuit Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 The Poets’ Revolution - a reading. Surgeons and Insurgents - RCSI and Admission free. Booking not necessary. the options for young females were very limited. The programme Factory in 1916. Sixty years after her Pearse St. Mon-Thurs: 10am – 8pm. Distinguished Irish poets of today the Easter Rising. The Royal College death, her grand-nephew, journalist Fri and Sat: 10am – 5pm. Admission free for the month has events ranging from bus trips to Belfast to introduce a choice of poetry from of Surgeons in Ireland holds a special and broadcaster Dave Kenny talks eyewitness accounts of Easter Week, talks, walks and exhibitions the leaders of the Rising in a special position in the historical events of the about her memoirs. and I encourage you to discover what life was like in 1916 by taking evening of poetry and conversation with Dublin Fire Brigade and the 1916 Easter Rising. Exhibition accompanied part in the 2016 Dublin: One City One Book Festival. Gerald Dawe, Paula Meehan, Eiléan Ní Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Dún Rising – tells the story of Dublin fire- by a public lecture series. Full details on Cuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Laoghaire. Admission free. fighters during Easter week. www.rcsi.ie/2016 Críona Ní Dhálaigh Booking not necessary. Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Dún The Vaults, City Hall, Dame St. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath Laoghaire. Admission free. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Admission free (RCSI), 123 St. Stephen’s Green. Booking not necessary. Thursday 28th April, 7pm 23rd March - 17th April, 2016. Dublin: 1916. Admission free James Stephens, the National Tuesday 26th April, 7pm A talk by distinguished social and labour Gallery of Ireland, and the Rising. Two Cities, One Book 1916: Tales from the Other Side – Dublin: 1916. historian Pádraig Yeates which will look 6 February-23 April, 2016. Dublin: One City, One Book is an award-winning Dublin City at the effects of the Rising on ordinary A unique archive of books, manuscripts A talk by distinguished social and labour Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries, which encourages lives in the city. Room 7, National Gallery of Ireland, and artefacts which traces how historian Pádraig Yeates which will look Clare St. Mon–Sat: 9:15am–5:30pm. minority communities responded to the everyone to read a book connected with the capital city during at the effects of the Rising on ordinary Clondalkin Library,Monastery Rd., Thurs: 9:15am-8:30pm. tumultuous events of the Easter Rising. the month of April every year. Join readers in Belfast as they lives in the city. Clondalkin. Admission free. Sun: 11am-5:30pm. Admission free Don’t miss the ‘Bullet Books’, ancient engage with Fallen in a Two Cities One Book Festival this year Booking advisable. County Library Tallaght, Dublin 24. texts which were machine-gunned and experience some of the wide variety of events taking place Email: [email protected] Admission free. Booking advisable. during Easter Week and have never Tel: 01 459 3315 in both cities. Email: [email protected] Proclaiming A Republic – The 1916 been repaired. Rising. The biggest exhibition ever Tel: 01 462 0073 Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close. mounted by the National Musuem Follow @KatieC1916 during the month of April as she Thanks to our partners Libraries NI, Penguin Random House Ireland, Thursday 28th April, Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri: 9:30am–5pm. will explore the ideas, movements the Ireland 2016 Commemoration Programme and especially to all 7:30 – 9pm Sat: 10am–5pm. Closed Tuesdays reacts to the events of Easter Week. Wednesday 27th April, 6:30pm and personalities of early 20th century the organisations, venues, speakers and performers involved in this Fallen Book Crawl with the Irish and Sundays. Exhibition free with Turning a Novel Inside-out. Ireland, the dramatic events of Easter year’s programme. Writers Centre. admission to the Library (€3/€2) A novel can change the reader’s mind, Week, the impact it had on the city See 1916 Dublin come to life through concessions available. See whether they want it to or not. That’s as and its citizens, and the Irish nation dramatised excerpts of Fallen in www.marshlibrary.ie for more details. Borrow Fallen from any branch of Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire- true for writers as it is for readers: start as a whole. various venues around historic Rathdown, Fingal & South Dublin Libraries or buy it from your with a question and go wherever that Parnell Square. favourite bookshop. question takes you. In this talk, Lia Mills The Riding School, National Museum Write Here, Write Now 2016, A Story of Ireland - will describe the process of writing her of Ireland, Collins Barracks. Tues-Sat: Tickets €12/€10. Further info and an all-Ireland creative writing competition for students www.dublinonecityonebook.ie novel Fallen. bookings at www.irishwriterscentre.ie 10am-5pm. Sun: 2pm-5pm. Closed Mondays. Admission free RDS Library, Ballsbridge. organised by Hot Press magazine as part of Two Cities www.librariesni.org.uk/twocitiesonebook Admission free. Booking essential. Friday 28th April, 7.30pm One Book. Closing date for submissions 8th April. Full Tel: 01 240 7254 An evening of readings from Fallen information on www.hotpress.com/writeherewritenow with songs from the era with actor Val Wednesday 27th April, 6:30pm O’Donnell and singer Barry Gleeson. Dublin: 1916. Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin 14. A talk by distinguished social and labour Admission free. Booking essential. www.dublinonecityonebook.ie historian Pádraig Yeates which will look Tel: 01 493 9462 at the effects of the Rising on ordinary Email: [email protected] lives in the city.

Saturday 9th April, 3pm Tuesday 12th April, 10:30am Wednesday 13th April, 6:30pm Saturday 16th April Monday 18th April, 7pm Tuesday 19th April, 6:30pm Thursday 21st April, 1:30pm Thursday 21st April, Fashions of 1916. Irish Women and Art: 1916. Filíocht agus Ceol na nDaoine. A Two Cities One Book day in Belfast. Dublin: 1916. Join Lia Mills for an informal reading 1916 - Total War. 7:30pm – 9pm Alex Ward, National Museum of Ireland, A talk by Sinéad McCoole, author, Caint le Des Geraghty. Beidh plé Day includes return travel to Belfast by A talk by distinguished social and labour and discussion about writing Fallen and Well known historian/guide Pat Liddy Fallen Book Crawl with the Irish Clár/Programme how it has been received. Also advice on Writers Centre. talks about the changes in fashion over curator and historian. bríomhar ar thionchar na filíochta luxury coach, lunch in Belfast City Hall, historian Pádraig Yeates which will look will lead a walk around the military the course of the early 20th century. coitianta ar mheon muintir na tour of the Ulster Museum and talk on at the effects of the Rising on ordinary writing about historical events. action sites at Boland’s Mills, Mount See 1916 Dublin come to life through National Gallery of Ireland, Clare St. hÉireann, Thuaidh agus Theas, ó Éirí the history of Belfast. lives in the city. Donabate Library, Portrane Rd, Street Bridge and other nearby dramatised excerpts of Fallen in various Farmleigh House, Castleknock. Admission free. Booking not necessary. Amach na Cásca 1916 ar aghaidh. Donabate. Admission free. strongholds. venues around historic Parnell Square. Monday 21st March Wednesday 6th April, 6:30pm Admission free. Booking essential. Bus departs Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Lucan Library, Supervalu Shopping Beidh athbhreithniú freisin ar chomh Booking essential at – Saturday 9th April I will speak their name to my Email: [email protected] or Sq. at 9am sharp. Tickets €10 incl lunch, Centre, Newcastle Rd. Admission free. Meet at the Beggars Bush Pub, Tickets €12/€10. Further info and Tuesday 12th April, 1:10-1:50pm tábhachtach is atá an ceol, an fhilíocht www.fingalcoco.ie/events REBEL, REBEL. Dublin, 24th April 1916 own heart. Tel: 01 815 5981 tea & coffee.Booking essential at Booking advisable. Haddington Rd. Free of charge. bookings at www.irishwriterscentre.ie Dublin Fire Brigade and the 1916 agus na hamhráin i múnlú cuimhne agus www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/ Email: [email protected] Booking essential as places Ireland’s leading actors abandon Actor Bryan Murray and accompanying Rising. tuisceana an ghnáthphobail ar programme Tel: 01 621 6422 Tuesday 19th April, 6:30pm are limited. Book at www. a matinee performance of Cathleen Ní musicians animate the works of Saturday 9th April, 6:30pm imeachtaí stairiúla. Friday 22nd April, 7:30pm A lecture by Las Fallon, Dublin Fire 1916: The Mornings After - from the dublinonecityonebook.ie/programme Houlihan. Stepping out of their costumes Patrick Pearse. MANIFESTO - The Promised Republic. Brigade historian. The 1916 Song Project. and taking their revolvers from beneath Teach an Ardmhéara, Sráid Saturday 16th April, 3pm courts martial to the tribunals. Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Some of Ireland’s top contemporary Tuesday 19th April, 10:30am Ten traditional singers from the Abbey stage, they march to Dublin Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame St. Dhásain. Saorchead isteach. Is gá Guided walking tour of Beggars Join Tim Pat Coogan for a talk and Pearse St. Admission free. women poets perform their own creative Countess Markievicz and her Role in Thursday 21st April, 3pm throughout the island of Ireland Castle. Devised by Louise Lowe, Robbie Admission free. Booking not necessary. áirithint a dhéanamh ag www. Bush Barracks and its surrounds, discussion on his book of the same title. Booking not necessary. work based on how they see women’s Revolution. Battle of Mount Street Bridge. have researched, composed and will O’Connor and Aisling O’Mara. Info email: [email protected] dublinonecityonebook.ie/programme set in the context of its involvement equality in 2016. Featured poets are in the 1916 Rising and the Battle of A talk by Brian Crowley, curator, The Dalkey Library, 41 Castle St., Dalkey. A talk by Michael Pegum, Sandymount present a body of traditional songs Elaine Feeney, Erin Fornoff, Sarah Pearse Museum. Admission free. Booking not necessary. Historical Society. based on the 1916 Rising and the Bewley’s Café Theatre @ Powerscourt Wednesday 6th April, 7pm Mount Street Bridge. Townhouse, South William St. Mon-Sat Clancy, Sarah Maria Griffin and Clara Tuesday 12th April, 6:30pm Wednesday 13th April, 6:30pm events surrounding it. Devised and Readings from Fallen by Lia Mills, Admission free. Booking essential. National Gallery of Ireland, Clare St. Waterways Ireland Visitors Centre, at 1pm (doors open at 12:50pm) Rose Thornton alongside Belfast poet Young and Female in Early 20th Two Cities, Two Irelands? Belfast produced by Michael Fortune and followed by discussion with Email: [email protected] Admission free. Booking not necessary. Tuesday 19th April, 7pm Grand Canal Quay. Admission free. Tickets: Mondays €8, Tues–Thurs €10, Alice McCullough. Further speakers and Century Ireland. and Dublin in 1916. Aileen Lambert. Dr Rosie Lavan. or Tel: 01 660 3770 Dublin: 1916. Booking not necessary. special guest MC to be announced! A talk by Dr Brian Hanley. Fri–Sat €12. Light lunch available €4. Professor Mary Daly (UCD) discusses Find out more at J.M. Synge Theatre, Arts Building, More information Tuesday 19th April, 1:10-1:50pm A talk by distinguished social and labour Booking: 086 878 4001 Fringe LAB, Sycamore St. Temple Bar. the limited education and employment Coolock Library, Barryscourt Rd. www.the1916songproject.com Trinity College (entrance on Nassau St.). www.nationalprintmuseum.ie Major John McBride and Jacob’s historian Pádraig Yeates which will look Thursday 21st April, 6:30pm www.bewleyscafetheatre.com Tickets €7 plus booking fee from options available to young females in Admission free. Booking essential. Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Dún Admission free. Booking essential. Factory Garrison. at the effects of the Rising on ordinary Civilians and the 1916 Rising. www.eventbrite.com. the early 20th century. Email: [email protected] or Laoghaire. Admission free. Email: [email protected] Sunday 17th April, 3pm lives in the city. How did civilians fare during Sunday 3rd April, 3pm Doors open at 6pm. Tel: 01 847 7781 A lecture by Séamas Ó Maitiú. Booking not necessary. Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St. The NGI: its archives and 1916. Ballyroan Library, Orchardstown Ave, Easter Week 1916? Walk around St. Stephen’s Green and Admission free. Booking essential Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame St. Rathfarnham. Admission free. Booking find out about the Dublin Fusiliers, a Thursday 7th April, 6:30pm A talk by Leah Benson, National Gallery John Dorney (editor of the history Sunday 10th April, 3pm at www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/ Thursday 14th April, 6:30pm Admission free. Booking not necessary. advisable. Friday 22nd April, 9:30pm tribute to poet and soldier Tom Kettle, Two Cities, Two Irelands? Belfast of Ireland. website The Irish Story) will discuss James Stephens and the Irish Revival. programme The Children of the Rising. Info email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Commemorating 1916 with how the Green has changed since and Dublin in 1916. National Gallery of Ireland, Clare St. combatants’ treatment of civilians A talk by Professor Declan Kiberd, Join Joe Duffy (RTÉ), author Patricia Tel: 01 494 1900 during the Rising as well as martial An Góilín Traditional Singers Club. 1916 and who has a sinister grip on one A talk by Dr Brian Hanley. Admission free. Booking not necessary. University of Notre Dame. Tuesday 12th April, 7:30pm Murphy and historian Pádraig Yeates as Tuesday 19th April, 6pm law, food shortages and the danger Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Sq. of our writers. Learn a bit about history Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Rd. The Parisian commemoration of they talk about the forgotten casualties Tell Her Gently - Bereavement in Irish of stray bullets. Admission €3. Booking not necessary. and a lot about public art. National Gallery of Ireland, Clare St. Wednesday 20th April, 1pm Admission free. Booking essential. two World Wars changed Lia Mills’ of the conflict. Sunday 17th April, 3pm families during the First World War. Admission free. Booking not necessary. Tell Her Gently - Bereavement in Irish Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Find out more at Email: [email protected] perspective on Fallen, the novel she Walk around St. Stephen’s Green and Royal College of Surgeons, 123 St. A talk by Tara Doyle which looks at the families during the First World War. Pearse St. Admission free. Booking Sunday 24th April, 3pm www.publicartwalkingtours.ie. or Tel: 01 626 9324 was writing during her 2009 residency find out about the Dublin Fusiliers, the Stephen’s Green. Admission free. personal and private experiences of Irish not necessary James Stephens, the NGI and the Booking essential. Sunday 10th April, 3pm at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Her tribute to poet and soldIer Tom Kettle, A talk by Tara Doyle which looks at the Booking essential at families bereaved during World War I. Insurrection of 1916. Email: [email protected] Walk around St. Stephen’s Green and reading will be followed by a discussion how the Green has changed since personal and private experiences of Irish Thursday 7th April, 6:30pm www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/ Adults €6, concessions €3, find out about the Dublin Fusiliers, a with a fellow resident – Belfast visual 1916 and who has a sinister grip on one Rathmines Library, 157 Lwr Rathmines families bereaved during World War I. Thursday 21st April, 7pm A talk by Dr Hilary Pyle, art historian, Writing History - fact or fiction? programme under 18’s free tribute to poet and solider Tom Kettle, artist Gail Ritchie – who was working on of our writers. Learn a bit about history Rd. Admission free. Booking essential. Central Library, Ilac Centre, Henry St. Dramatising Women’s Lives. curator, biographer. Authors Martina Devlin, Catherine Dunne Email: [email protected] how the Green has changed since her Memorials series at the same time. and a lot about public art. Admission free. Booking essential. Monologues by Celia de Fréine (Beth) National Gallery of Ireland, Clare St. and Lia Mills ponder whether truth gets Tel: 01 497 3539 Monday 4th April, 6:30pm 1916 and who has a sinister grip on one The conversation will be chaired by art Thursday 14th April, 7pm Email: [email protected] and Lia Mills (Katie) explore women’s Admission free. Booking not necessary. in the way of a good story. Find out more at The Children of the Leaders of our writers. Learn a bit about history historian Paula Murphy. ’16 in 16. www.publicartwalkingtours.ie. Tel: 01 873 4333 lives against the backdrop of the events of the Rising. and a lot about public art. Newman House, 85-86 St. Stephen’s Centre Culturel Irlandais, Four prominent people from the arts, Booking essential. Tuesday 19th April, 6:30pm of 1916. In Celia de Fréine’s one-woman Sunday 24th April, 3pm Green. Admission free. social justice, heritage and sport Ghost Signs of Dublin - Easter Wednesday 20th April, 7pm play, Beth takes in washing and mends A talk by Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid. Find out more at 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. Email: [email protected] Walk around St. Stephen’s Green and Booking essential at www. speak for 16 minutes each on all things Week 1916. ‘All sorts of wild reports …’ frocks in order to support herself www.publicartwalkingtours.ie. www.centreculturelirlandais.com Adults €6, concessions €3, find out about the Dublin Fusiliers, a National Library of Ireland, Kildare St. dublinonecityonebook.ie/programme ’16-related. The Chief Commissioner and her son, James. In a separate Booking essential. under 18’s free Author Antonia Hart tells stories of An intriguing and entertaining evening tribute to poet and solider Tom Kettle, Admission free. Booking not necessary. of the Irish Human Rights and Equality performance, based on the novel Email: [email protected]. Wednesday 13th April, 1pm the shops and businesses of Dublin in featuring dramatised descriptions of how the Green has changed since Adults €6, concessions €3, Commission, Emily Logan; Lia Mills, Fallen, Katie is trapped in a house Thursday 7th April, 7pm Gilbert and Sullivan were hugely popular Monday 18th April, 6:30pm 1916 whose signs are still dotted the Rising in Dublin, taken from the 1916 and who has a sinister grip on one under 18’s free. author of Fallen; Pat Cooke, Director on the wrong side of the river at Tuesday 5th April, 1:10-1:50pm Women’s Lives, Work and Activism in 1916 – enjoy a live performance of The Road to the Vote. around the city. diaries and letters of a diverse group of our writers. Learn a bit about history Sean Connolly, City Hall and the of UCD MA in Cultural Policy and Arts of women: volunteer nurses Nora and the height of the fighting during in 1916. their music with Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada Pembroke Library, Anglesea Rd. and a lot about public art. 1916 Rising. Management and Amina Moustafa of the Anna Carey, Nell Regan and Jeanne Jean Fitzpatrick; visiting opera singer Easter week. Labour historian Theresa Moriarty and Monday 11th April, 6:30pm (Soprano) and Kevin Corcoran SARI ‘Hijabs and Hat-tricks’ programme. Sutton engage in a lively discussion, Admission free. Booking essential. Find out more at Elsie McDermid; labour activist Rosie Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Dún A lecture by Conor McNamara. poet and biographer Nell Regan discuss Two Cities, Two Irelands? Belfast (Tenor/Pianist). chaired by Rick O’Shea, on the Email: [email protected] www.publicartwalkingtours.ie. Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Dún Hackett; and diarist Monica Roberts. Laoghaire. Admission €5, tickets Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame St. the role of women in society, politics and Dublin in 1916. suffragette movement in both Dublin Tel: 01 668 9575 Booking essential. Central Library, Ilac Centre, Henry St. Laoghaire. Admission free. With actors Catherine Byrne, Rose available at the door Admission free. Booking not necessary. and the Easter Rising. Preceded by the A talk by Dr Brian Hanley. and Belfast in 1916. Actor Jennifer Email: [email protected] Admission free. Booking essential. Booking not necessary. Henderson, Helen Norton and Kerrie launch at 6pm of Helena Molony: A Laverty will perform a dramatic piece Adults €6, concessions €3, Info email: [email protected] Raheny Library, Howth Rd. Admission Email: [email protected] O’Sullivan, and musicians and singers Radical Life by Nell Regan. about Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington. under 18’s free free. Booking essential. Tel: 01 873 4333 of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Newman House, 85 -86 St. Email: [email protected] Abbey Presbyterian Church (Findlater’s), Dún Laoghaire. Admission free. Stephen’s Green. Admission or Tel: 01 831 5521 Parnell Sq North. Admission Booking not necessary. free. Booking essential at www. free. Booking essential at www. dublinonecityonebook.ie/programme dublinonecityonebook.ie/programme