Date registered: November 30, -0001
Jun 03
As usual there is a very exciting mix of events at the Sean O’Casey Theatre this month . Here are just some of them . First up is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jikfdJaFC6U Next up is “Hubris” a Dublin based drama on how the wrong decisions made in the past can lead to the entrapment of your …
May 23
Next weekend local wrestling superstar Darren Kearney will be in action . On Friday he is back on his home turf at the Sean O’Casey Community Centre. His last appearance here saw him and his partner (‘More Than Hype’) winning the Irish tag-team titles. Friday will be their first title defense. And on Saturday you …
May 13
On Saturday the 23rd June the East Wall History Group & the Alternative Visions Oral History Group will host the 2018 Sarah Lundberg Summer School. Each year the event is held in honour of our friend and colleague Sarah Lundberg, an Archivist, Historian and publisher who tragically passed away four years ago. This is a …
May 13
Congratulations to all the club members from East Wall Youth who took part in the Darkness into Light walk . They were part of an incredible 200,000 who participated in this important annual event , aimed at promoting suicide prevention and tackling the stigma that surrounds mental health. And lets not forget all the others from …
May 13
The Sean O’ Casey Theatre will be the venue for a festival celebrating Sean O’ Casey, his life and works in September 2018. Planning is in place as part of the festival for community productions of Sean O’Casey Plays including one of the ‘classics’ and a selection of Short plays . Do you want to …
Apr 13
In 1915 munitions fever struck Ireland as the possibility of high paying jobs of £4-10 per week in English Factories presented themselves, coupled with the announcement that Ireland was to get its own munitions industry with National Shell Factories being established around the country. Similarly, Private Industry took up the challenge in the form of …
Apr 02
“…here we are in Caledon Road, a relief but a letdown all the same. For it was as if our journey back in time had only been an illusion” Mick Ryan was born in East Wall in the 1940’s. He recently published his first volume of autobiography entitled “My Life in the IRA: The Border …
Apr 01
During the Easter Rising Centenary Year 2016 local history groups in the Docklands were busy ensuring that the anniversary was properly commemorated. The East Wall History Group and the North Docks Peoples Voice Project undertook extensive research, held and participated in a number of talks and walking tours. We also published a booklet and numerous …
