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The Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge. File photograph.
Kildare County Council (KCC) will host the eighth annual Irish Military Seminar in a well-known Newbridge venue.
Announcing the seminar, KCC said: "Kildare County Archives and Local Studies is pleased to announce that the eighth Irish Military Seminar will take place in Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, 2024.
"All events are free to attend, but early booking is advised via Riverbank Arts Centre website: www.riverbank.ie."
KCC continued: "The seminar will begin on Friday at 7pm with the launch of a ground-breaking colourised photo book of County Kildare during the revolutionary period: 'The Colour of Kildare 1913-1923' by James Durney, Mario Corrigan and John O’Byrne.
"Cathaoirleach of the County of Kildare, Councillor Daragh Fitzpatrick will open the seminar on Friday evening at an annual event focused on the Irish Defence Forces.
"This year, author and broadcaster Ralph Riegel, will speak on the 50-year search for Ireland’s lost soldier, Trooper Pat Mullins from County Limerick, who was killed in an ambush in 1961 at Elizabethville, The Congo," KCC concluded.
Saturday's series of lectures will include: The Nine Years’ War, International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, Richard II’s invasion of Ireland, World War Military Structures in County Kildare, Irish Doctors in the Second World War, and Seán Keating and the Art of Revolution.
The Irish Military Seminar is supported by Kildare County Council, the Kildare County Council Decade of Commemorations Committee and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2013-23 initiative.
Photograph provided by Kildare County Council.
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