October 01
Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Lt. Edward Hempenstall, the ‘Walking Gallows’ of 1798, in Wicklow lore, Séan A. Murphy. Adm. €3.
Nick Maxwell
September 29
Sat 2.30pm Museum of Archaeology, Kildare St. Ardagh Chalice 150th anniversary (tour).
September 28-30
Fri–Sun Ardagh Chalice 150 (2nd WE), Ardagh, Co. Longford. Parades, seminars, guided walks, street entertainment, music, etc. #ardaghchalice150.
September 24 – October 7
Mon–Sun (2 weeks) Dublin Festival of History, various venues. Speakers will include Helen Rappaport (The race to save the Romanovs), Anne Applebaum (Red Famine: Stalin’s war on Ukraine) and Michael Palin (‘The world and voyages of HMS Erebus’). Detailed programme @ http://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie.
September 21-23
Fri–Sun Ardagh Chalice 150 (1st WE), Ardagh, Co. Longford. Parades, seminars, guided walks, street entertainment, music, etc. #ardaghchalice150.