Tuesday 18 May: Revolutionary Daughters: Nora and Ina Connolly, with Liz Gillis. Host: Áras Uí Chonghaile | James Connolly Visitor Centre, Virtual Spring Programme. 7pm. Free. All welcome. View on Facebook or YouTube.
Wednesday 19 May:: Elections and Propaganda in Ireland and Carlow 1917-1921: Votes, Violence and Victory, with Dr Elaine Callinan. Host: Carlow Historical and Archeological Society. 8pm. Free. On Zoom and Facebook. Details and links.
Thursday 20 May: Sources for house histories, with Nicola Morris MAGI and NAI archivist Natalie Milne. Host: National Archives of Ireland. Online. Free. 6pm. Need to register.
Thursday 20 May: Burning the Custom House, 25 May 1921. Part of the centenary programme. Two lectures: The Civilian Dead, with Brian Smith, and The Human Cost for the IRA, with Des White. Online. Free on Facebook at 8pm. (Recording will be on YouTube in due course.)
Thursday 20 May: Collecting the National Memory, with Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland. Host: University College Dublin. 11am. Online. Free. Details.
Saturday 22 May: The Firemen's Tale, with Las Fallon. Host: Burning the Custom House, 25 May 1921 centenary programme. Online. Free on Facebook at 8pm. (Recording will be on YouTube in due course.)
Sunday 23 May: Caught in the Middle - Inside the Custom House 25 May 1921, with Mícheál Ó Doibhilín. Host: Burning the Custom House, 25 May 1921 centenary programme. Online. Free on Facebook at 8pm. (Recording will be on YouTube in due course.)
Monday 24 May: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland reopens to the public on an appointment only basis. Titanic Boulevard, Belfast. Information.Tuesday 25 May: People Power and Places: Grand Jury Records and Local History, ad afternoon seminar presented as part of the Beyond 2022: Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury Research Project in association with Local Government Archivists and Records Managers. 2:30pm–5pm. Free. All welcome. Details and registration.
Tuesday 25 May: ‘Burning the Books’: Series finale of 'Out of the Ashes'. Lecture with Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, Oxford, followed by Ovenden in conversation with Helen Shenton, College Librarian and Archivist of Trinity College Dublin. Hosted by Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury Research Project in association with Local Government Archivists and Records Managers. Free. 7pm–8:30pm. Online. All welcome. Details and registration.
Tuesday 25 May: Past Lives: Exploring histories of Family, an online workshop and part of the Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival 2021. Host: University of Limerick. Includes the following presentations: The marginalisation of ex-servicemen in the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1900-1925, with Stuart Clancy; The Earl Grey Orphans of Kilrush Union Workhouse, 1848-1850, with Sharon Dilger-Kelly; The South Limerick Volunteers, with Padraig Hogan. 4pm to 5pm. Details.
Tuesday 25 May: Burning of the Custom House, with Liz Gillis, final lecture in the centenary programme. Online. Free on Facebook at 8pm. (Recording will be on YouTube in due course.)
Tuesday 25 May: Kilstifeen and phantom island traditions of the west coast, with Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, National Folklore Collection, UCD. Host: Kilrush and District History Society. Online. 8pm. Free. Link.
Thursday 27 May: WWI: Exploring the Irish Experience, a virtual exhibition tour. Host: National Library of Ireland. All welcome. Free, but need to book tickets. 11am.
Thursday 27 May: Climate shocks and climate change: Climate and society in 18th-century Ireland, with Professor James Kelly. The J.C. Beckett Memorial Lecture. Host: The Ulster Society of Irish Historical Studies (USIHS) and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Online. 7-8pm. Free, but need to register.
Thursday 27 May and Friday 28 Mary Silences and Inconvenient Truths in Irish Culture and Society – the 19th International AEDEI Conference. A virtual event hosted by the University of Vigo via its free TV streaming service. Free. All welcome. Programme and details.