A second lecture series on the 1798 rebellion began yesterday in the National Museum at Collins Barracks and will run for five weeks. The programme will feature leading producers, broadcasters, writers and historians.
The series opened with a debate on the issues involved in communicating the history of 1798 through film and television documentaries and in marrying accuracy with popular mediums.
Independent documentary producer Mr Louis Marcus, producer and director Mr Moore Sinnerton and journalist and producer Mr Kevin Dawson were the key speakers in a lively discussion.
On Sunday, September 13th, military historian and author Mr Glenn Thompson will talk about the uniforms of 1798.
Dr A.T.Q. Stewart, presenter of the Channel 4 series The Divided Kingdom, will discuss the 1798 rebellion in the context of Northern Ireland in his lecture on September 20th.
The curator of the National Museum of Ireland, Mr Lar Joyce, will talk about the museum's 1798 collection on Sunday, September 27th, and the series concludes on October 4th with a lecture on moments of the 1798 rebellion by Mr Peter Dundon of The Hunt Museum in Limerick.
A Spanish-born United Irishman had a memorial unveiled in his honour yesterday in the village of Royal Oak, Co Carlow. John Moore, who came from land-owning stock in Co Mayo, died at the Royal Oak Tavern on December 12th, 1798. He was a prisoner of crown forces when he took ill at Royal Oak and was brought to the home of the Mulrooney family. The Mulrooney family were the forebears of Brian Mulrooney, the former Canadian prime minister who visited Royal Oak in the early 1990s in search of his ancestral roots.
The 1798 memorial in Royal Oak consists of five stones, provided from two local quarries - a central stone devoted to John Moore's memory and the other four symbolising the four provinces of Ireland.