June 17
Sat 2.30pm Western Front Association (Dublin Branch), NMI, Collins Barracks. Edward Roe: a Westmeath Old Contemptible, Rachel Abraham. Adm. €3.
Nick Maxwell
May 09
1908 Luke Livingstone Macassey (c. 65), civil engineer and barrister, died. Macassey is remembered as Belfast’s ‘water hero’, the visionary engineer who brought a reliable supply of clean water to a city whose population had risen from 22,000 in 1807 to 270,000 in 1890 and in so doing probably saved more lives—from typhoid and cholera—than … Read more
June 13
Thur 6.30pm Antrim & Down Branch Western Front Association, PRONI, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter. Beyond the Somme: Brig.-Gen. Frank Crozier and the Welsh Bantam Brigade, Mike Taylor.
May 31
Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Helen Roe Lecture—Skellig Michael: unpeeling its many layers, Grellan O’Rourke. Thur 8pm Rathmines, Ranelagh & Rathgar Historical Society, Rathmines Town Hall. Alfie Byrne, lord mayor of Dublin, Trevor White. Adm. €3.
May 23
Thur 11am DLR Lexicon, Room 4, Level 5, Haig Terrace. Queen Victoria and the Kingstown connection, Frank Woods. Thur 7pm DLR Bealtaine Festival, Shankill Library. Captain Hermann Goertz: a German WWII intelligence gatherer who stayed in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown area, James Scannell.