Monday 21 March: Titanic, an in person event with Tom Hartley. Part of the City Cemetery lecture Series from Belfast City Council. Venue: Falls Park Bowling Pavilion, 63 Andersonstown Rd, Belfast BT11 9AH. Free. All welcome. 11am to 12noon.Booking essential.
Monday 21 March: Symbolism and Belfast City Cemetery, an in-person event with Tom Hartley. Part of the City Cemetery lecture Series from Belfast City Council. Venue: Elmwood Building - Geography Building, Queen's University, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast.Lecture starts 7:30pm. Tea available from 7pm. Free. All welcome. Booking essential.
Monday 21 March–29 April Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in Revolution, 1920-23, an in-person exhibition curated by Professor Terence Dooley. Venue: Irish Architectural Archives, 45 Merrion Square East, Dublin 2. Free. 10am to 5pm.
Tuesday 22 March: Researching Irish Presbyterian Family History, with Dr William Roulston. An online event hosted by the North of Ireland Family History Society, Belfast Branch. 7:30pm-9pm GMT. Free. All welcome, but non-members need to request zoom link via Belfast.Treasurer@nifhs.org.
Tuesday 22 March Online burial research, with PRONI and PlotBox. Part of the City Cemetery Lecture Series from Belfast City Council. Venue: PRONI, 2, Titanic Boulevard, Belfast, BT3 9HQ. Free. All welcome. You can attend this event in-person or watch it live online via Zoom. Booking is essential for both. 12:30 to 1:30pm.
Wednesday 23 March: Viscount Pirrie – Mister Titanic, an in-person lecture with Mark Doherty. Part of the City Cemetery Lecture Series from Belfast City Council. Venue: EastSide Visitor Centre, 402 Newtownards Road, Belfast BT4. All welcome. 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Free, but booking essential.
Thursday 24 March: What’s new in Family Tree Maker, an online interactive discussion with Mark Olson, Stefan Harms and Pierre Clouthier. A two-hour session exploring new plug-ins for the software and giving you the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from the FTM team. 7pm-9pm GMT. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Free. Need to email for link. Details.
Thursday 24 March: An Overview of Ireland in 1922, with Cormac Moore, Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence for the North Central Area. This is the first of the Ireland in 1922 online history talks hosted by Raheny Library. 7pm. Free. Need to book here.
Thursday 24 March: Burning the Big House: the story of the country house during the Irish Revolution, 1920-23, with Terence Dooley. First of the online Burning the Big House lecture series. Host: Centre for the Study of Historic Irish houses and Estates, History Department, Maynooth University. 7pm to 8pm. Booking. Fully booked.
Friday 25 March: Emigration, from Ireland to Australia and New Zealand, an online class with Mike McKeag. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. 2pm-3pm GMT. All welcome. Fee: £15 for class and notes, or £10 for class only. Booking.
Friday 25 March: PRONI's online records, an online class with Andrew Kane, an online class with Mike McKeag. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. 2pm-3pm GMT. All welcome. Fee: £10 for class only. Booking.
Saturday 26 March: Material Legacies: The Archaeology of the Irish Revolutionary Period, a free online conference. A collaboration between UCD School of Archaeology in association with Abarta Heritage and the Landscapes of Revolution Project. 9:30am to 4pm GMT. Details and booking.
Saturday 26 March: Carrickfergus, as it was during the Second World War, an in-person guided walk with Lead The Way Tours. 10:30am to 1pm. Details and tickets (£5, under 16s; £10, adults). Need to book by 25 March.
Sunday 27 March: The Merchants who Grew a City: a Tour of Belfast’s Industrial History, an in-person tour by Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics. Meet at the Big Fish, Donegall Quay, Belfast, BT1 3NG. 2pm to 4:30pm. See details and buy tickets (£15) at eventbrite.
Tuesday 29 March: Tithe Records in PRONI, an online talk with Des McCabe. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Causeway Coast and Glens Branch. 7:30pm to 9pm. Free. All welcome. Non-members will need to email Causeway@nifhs.org for zoom link.
Tuesday 29 March: Lives of the Belfast Poor in the 19th Century, an in-person event with Dr Robyn Atcheson. Part of the City Cemetery lecture Series from Belfast City Council. Venue: Clifton House, 2 North Queen Street, Belfast BT15 1ES. Free. All welcome. Booking essential. 7:30pm to 8:30pm.
Wednesday 30 March: Ireland 1900 - 1925: Crisis, War and Revolution, an online event highlighting some of the archives available in PRONI’s online resources. Speakers: Janet Hancock, PRONI; Dr Timothy Bowman, University of Kent; Jim McBride, Secretary, History Teachers’ Association NI. 1pm to 2pm. Free. All welcome. Need to book.
Thursday 31 March: Revolution, agrarianism and the burning of Ballydugan House, Co Galway, 1922, with Ann O’Riordan. Part of the online Burning the Big House lecture series. Host: Centre for the Study of Historic Irish houses and Estates, History Department, Maynooth University. 7pm to 8pm. Booking. Fully booked
Thursday 31 March: From Treaty to Civil War, with Cormac Moore, Dublin City Council Historian-in-Residence for the North Central Area. This is the second of the Ireland in 1922 online history talks hosted by Raheny Library. 7pm. Free. Need to book here.
Thursday 31 March: Launch of Demonised: 'The Islandmagee Witches, 1711', with Dr Andrew Sneddon, and Dr Victoria McCollum. Host: PRONI. An online event to mark the 312th anniversary of the trial of the "Islandmagee witches" in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim in 1711. 12:15pm to 1:30pm. Free. All welcome. Details.