Our Shared Built Military Heritage: The online mapping, inventorying and recording of the Army Barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921 (OSBMH) Principal investigators: Dr Charles Ivar McGrath, UCD, and Dr Suzanne Forbes, The Open University Funded by the Government of Ireland / HEA Shared Island North-South Research Programme 2022 Ireland has the remains of about 400 army …
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The Digital Mapping of Ireland’s Eighteenth-Century Barracks: The Munster Story
Dingle Historical Society presents: The Digital Mapping of Ireland’s Eighteenth-Century Barracks: The Munster Story A lecture by Dr Ivar McGrath, UCD School of History Lecture venue: Dingle Benners Hotel, Main Street, Dingle Date: Thursday, 14th July, 8.00pm All welcome – Fáilte roimh cách – Visitors welcome This …
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Talk at the 14th annual Swift Symposium, 17 October 2015
Ivar McGrath will give a talk entitled ‘The Grand Question Debated: Swift, Army Barracks and Money’ at the fourteenth Dublin International Symposium on Jonathan Swift which will take place from 2 pm to 5 pm on Saturday 17 October 2015 at The Deanery, Upper Kevin Street, Dublin 8. For further information on this event, please follow this link.
Lecture at TCD, 10 September 2015
10 September 2015 Location: ‘Towards a New Military History of Ireland’ Workshop, Trinity College Dublin. Speaker: Ivar McGrath Lecture Title: ‘Mapping the Military Establishment in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Case of the Army Barracks’.
Lecture to UCD History Society, 30 March 2015
30 March 2015, 6 p.m. Location: NT1 Lower Ground Floor, Newman Building, UCD. Speaker: Ivar McGrath Lecture Title: An Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Army Barracks of Ireland Online – http://barracks18c.ucd.ie/.
Updates to Barracks Map – Jan. 2015
Pins corrected and amended: Kilkenny Kinsale Millstreet Pins added: Roscommon 2, Co. Roscommon (aka Edenville House Cavalry Barracks) Kilcock, Co. Kildare New Geneva Barracks, Waterford Crosshaven, Co. Cork Cove Fort, Cobh, Co. Cork
New Geneva Barracks
Some useful websites with information about New Geneva Barracks in Co. Waterford: ‘New Geneva Barracks’ on the Barony of Gaultier Historical Society website. ‘New Geneva Barracks’, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage website. ‘New Geneva Barracks, Passage East’, An Taisce website. If you would like to recommend any other websites with information about New Geneva Barracks, …