Three years into the ‘decade of centenaries’, and with the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising rapidly approaching, ILF Dublin brings together two leading historians whose work offers fresh perspectives on the most dramatic years in Irish history. Diarmaid Ferriter’s “magisterial” (Irish Independent) new book, A Nation and Not a Rabble, draws on newly released archive materials to tell the stories of the ordinary men and women who lived and fought in the revolutionary years, while Maurice Walsh’s Bitter Freedom restores the conflict to its international context, showing how the Irish revolution was at the forefront of a global movement for independence.

The event will be chaired by Catriona Crowe.