{"id":12540,"date":"2021-05-29T04:02:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/whats-in-a-name-dun-leary-kingstown-dun-laoghaire-centenary-programme\/"},"modified":"2021-05-29T04:02:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T03:02:21","slug":"whats-in-a-name-dun-leary-kingstown-dun-laoghaire-centenary-programme","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/whats-in-a-name-dun-leary-kingstown-dun-laoghaire-centenary-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name? Dun Leary, Kingstown, D\u00fan Laoghaire Centenary Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span>In 1821 the name Dunleary was changed to Kingstown after King George IV\u2019s visit to this bustling and rapidly developing town. In 1920 it was officially given the name D\u00fan Laoghaire, referring back to the original Irish name for Dunleary. It was a deliberate political act during the War of Independence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>In 2019 dlr Libraries acquired nearly 700 postcards of the D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown area from the sale of the Seamus Kearns Collection of Postcards. These images form the basis of a publication entitled\u00a0<strong><em>What\u2019s in a Name? Dun Leary \u2013 Kingstown \u2013 D\u00fan Laoghaire: A Visual History<\/em>, <\/strong>an accompanying\u00a0online exhibition\u00a0and a series of talks and videos to mark the centenary of the name change. In addition, a Primary Schools resource featuring five Lesson Plans for teachers has been prepared by S\u00e9amus Cannon and R\u00edonach O Callaghan in association with\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Blackrock Education Centre<span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>Exhibition and publication curated and edited by David Gunning, dlr Archivist in Residence, Nigel Curtin, Local Studies Librarian and dlr LexIcon Librarian Marian Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Keyes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>F<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>unding will be used\u00a0to expand the breadth of this project, which has already been funded through the Decade of Centenaries Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12540","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s in a Name? 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