(All help with promoting this class is appreciated. I can be contacted via donalfallondublin@gmail.com)
Last year, myself and Dr. Irial Glynn put together a course with the Adult Education Department of U.C.D, looking at the hidden history of Dublin, and focused on social history and forgotten people from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looked at issues like working class childhood in the city, Dublin’s history of prostitution, labour agitation in the capital and the tenement city.
It was a great experience, and we talked about it on RTE Radio One’s The History Show with Myles Dungan last year. You can listen to that feature here:
Irial has since moved on to academic pastures new, but I’m happy and excited to say the course is going ahead this February. Half the course is in class, and the other half is on the streets, with four walking tours of the city and suburbs.
It runs for four Tuesdays and four Saturdays, kicking off February 11th. Tuesday is an evening class, and Saturday is a walk from 11am to 1pm.
Please note that the listing below is a week off, and the class begins the following week, but here is the blurb:
Those interested in booking the class can do so by contacting the UCD Adult Education Department. I would be very grateful to anyone who shares this post with others they think may be interested in the class, in particular those who aren’t online.
