‘All that remained’—The Four Courts Blaze of 1922

Recorded January 27, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the Out of
the Ashes Lecture Series, with Catriona Crowe MRIA, Former Senior
Archivist, National Archives of Ireland; Zoe Reid, Senior
Conservator, National Archives of Ireland; and Lar Joye, Port
Heritage Director at Dublin Port and Chair of the Irish National
Committee of the Blue Shield. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ About the Out of the
Ashes Lecture Series This three-year lecture series explores the
theme of cultural loss and recovery across the centuries, from the
destruction of the Library of Alexandria in antiquity to
contemporary acts of cultural loss and destruction. A panel of
world-leading experts reflects on how societies deal with cultural
trauma through reconstruction and commemoration, and on how the
international community should respond to cultural loss. The series
is global in scope, pan-historical and multi-disciplinary in
approach, and features international scholars and practitioners of
the highest calibre. Year II of the series (2019–20), "Destroying,"
considers a form of cultural atrocity now subject to international
war crimes prosecution: the deliberate targeting of cultural
heritage as a means to control social memory and to erase
identities. This special panel event on the Four Courts Blaze of
1922 organized in association with the Irish National Committee of
the Blue Shield. The basis for the Blue Shield is the 1954 Hague
Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property and its
additional first and second protocols, ratified by Ireland in 2018.
The Out of the Ashes lecture series is generously supported by Sean
and Sarah Reynolds. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/