Nick Maxwell Thur 5.30pm GPO Witness Visitor Centre, O’Connell St. Rebel Women of the 20th Century—Charlotte Despard, Margaret Ward. Free tickets @ www.gpowitnesshistory.ie. Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. The dioceses of Meath and Ossory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Michael O’Neill.
Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square. Leo Swan Memorial Lecture: Ireland’s underwater archaeological heritage, Cormac Lowth.
The inebriate reformatory system in Britain and Ireland emerged as a result of the 1898 Inebriate Act, which gave legislative standing to three institutions variously charged with the punishment, reform or treatment of criminal habitual drunkards. The Irish State Inebriate Reformatory at Ennis was the first in what the Irish Independent described as the ‘three … Read more
Mon 8.15pm Clontarf Historical Society, Resource Centre, St John the Baptist Church. Interesting, confusing—a side of the census of Ireland 1901 & 1911, Derek Bauer. Adm. €5.
Thur 7.30pm Eblana Forum, Dún Laoghaire Club, 3 Eblana Avenue. Spies, informers and collaborators, Edward Bourke. Thur 8pm Lismullin Conference Centre, Tara, Co. Meath. The Battle of the Boyne: plans and contingencies, Pádraig Lenihan. Adm. €5.