April 09
Thur 8pm Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, Glenalbyn Sports Club. Ballycorus lead mines, Rob Goodbody. Adm. €3.
Nick Maxwell
The targeting of District Inspector Hunt—a template for the subsequent conflict?
His assassination was ‘unmistakably the first blow in a methodical campaign of terrorism’. By Neville O’Connell On Monday 23 June 1919 the first horse-race meeting in three years took place on the outskirts of Thurles town. The organisers had advertised it throughout the country in an effort to make it an overwhelming success. Thousands were … Read more
March 18
Wed 8pm Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society, Royal Marine Hotel. Carriglea House, Kill Avenue, David Doyle. Adm. €3. Wed 8pm Meath Archaeological & Historical Society, Kells Old Courthouse Tourist Hub. Annual Séamus MacGabhann Lecture: The second reformation in nineteenth-century north Meath, Marion Rogan.
ON THIS DAY
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MARCH 18/1957 The trial of Antrim-born Dr John Bodkin Adams on a charge of murdering Edith Morell, one of his elderly patients, opened at the Old Bailey. A lifelong bachelor, Adams was for many years a popular and familiar figure driving around the more affluent areas of Eastbourne, East Sussex, in his … Read more
BALLINTUBBER ABBEY
Carra, Co. Mayo By Damian Murphy County Mayo boasts a fine collection of early monastic buildings whose ruined carcasses, each set within a distinctive landscape, have long attracted antiquarians, artists, historians and photographers. Ballintubber Abbey, facing and almost in a dialogue with lofty Croagh Patrick, claims a legacy of over 800 years of continuous worship … Read more