The Handover of Dublin Castle: A Centenary Conference

The Handover of Dublin Castle: A Centenary Conference will take place in the Printworks, Dublin Castle, 14-15 January 2022. Download the programme for the event here.

This conference is hosted by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) with support from the OPW and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme.

The event will be live streamed and registration is through Eventbrite: The Handover of Dublin Castle: A Centenary Conference Tickets, Fri 14 Jan 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite but it can be viewed on the

TCD webpage here: https://histories-humanities.tcd.ie/research/handover/ without registration. 

On 16 January 1922 the Provisional Government took possession of Dublin Castle. The events of that day were overtaken and perhaps overshadowed by the civil war that soon followed, but this two-day conference, hosted by Trinity College Dublin at Dublin Castle, will retrieve the historical significance of that day.  The conference, which is part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme, will explore the immediate reactions, the expected consequences, and the implications of this dramatic shift in the centre of power.  Speakers will consider the context of the handover, and the response in Ireland, Britain and beyond, to this moment when, as the Irish Times reported, ‘the old regime ceased to exist’.

Contributors will include: Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, T.D., Minister Catherine Martin, T.D., Robin Adams, Laura Cahillane, Catriona Crowe, Ian d’Alton, William Derham, Anne Dolan, Diarmaid Ferriter, Niamh Gallagher, Brian Hanley, Alvin Jackson, Margaret Kelleher, Bill Kissane, David McCullagh, Martin Maguire, Ciara Meehan, Conor Mulvagh, William Murphy, Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Margaret O’Callaghan, Eunan O’Halpin, Elspeth Payne.