LAUNCH OF ORAL HISTORY AUDIO COLLECTION AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE AND THE GREAT WAR

DATE:   WEDNESDAY 30^TH JULY

VENUE:  NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND

        KILDARE STREET, DUBLIN 2

TIME:   3 PM.  Minister for Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht

        Jimmy Deenihan T.D. will launch the collection.   

SPEAKERS:    H.E. Mr. Dominick Chilcott, British Ambassador to Ireland    

                         Mr. Kevin Myers, Journalist

For the very first time, families from many of Ireland’s old country houses will come together to celebrate and commemorate the memory of family members who took up arms in the Great War. Many of these Irish men and women were destined to never see their homes or loved ones again.

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