FORTHCOMING LECTURES & ACTIVITIES – Spring 2025 onwards
Monday 28th April 2025
Was Michael Collins a Dictator??
by Joseph EA Connell
Was Michael Collins a dictator? This and other questions will be asked and answered by Joe Connell – a US based historian. Joe was born in Colorado, spent most of his life in California and now lives in Florida. Before training and practicing as a lawyer, he played football for the San Francisco 49ers and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne division of the US army, which specialises in parachute assault operations. However, with Irish forebears on his father’s side, Joe first came to Ireland as a child. In the 1960s, visiting museums and discovering Irish history, he became particularly interested in the Easter Rising and its aftermath. Since then Joe has published several books on the period, is a columnist for History Ireland, and features regularly on Newstalk’s Talking History show.
See further details of future, current and previous lectures for 2025, ’24,’23,’22,’20 and 2019 HERE
Please note there is an attendance charge of €5 for non-members of Blackrock Society
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Further talks and lectures for the Autumn/Winter of 2024 and Spring of 2025 will be on the Second Monday of each month and this site will be updated as talks are arranged. If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact Douglas by email at info at blackrocksociety.ie
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