Nick Maxwell 1967 Sir John Cockcroft (70), British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atom with Irishman Ernest Walton (1903–95), died. 1964 Seán O’Casey (84), playwright, died. 1914 The Home Rule Act was suspended for the duration of the war. 1867 Col. Thomas J. Kelly (Head Centre of the IRB) and Capt. … Read more
Fri 8pm Sligo Field Club, Sligo IT Education Centre. Early medieval settlement, Finbar McCormick.
Wed 6.30pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library and Archive Conference Room, 138–144 Pearse Street. Methodists from the Free State to the Republic, Revd Dudley Levistone Cooney.
Tues 8pm Howth Peninsula Heritage Society, Howth Angling Centre, West Pier. William Dargan: an honourable man, Fergus Mulligan.
Sun 3pm County Kildare Archaeological Society, Kilcullen Heritage Centre. Kildare racecourses, past and present, Guy St John Williams. Adm. €5. Sun 3pm Heritage Services, Phoenix Park Visitors’ Centre. The sinking of the RMS Leinster, Philip Lecane.