May 22
Wed 7pm DLR County Council Spring of Heritage, Marlay Park, Rathfarnham. Historic Irish maps, and how Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown is depicted on them, Tom Conlon.
Nick Maxwell
May 21
Tues 7.30pm Portlaoise Library Fake news and Irish freedom, Ian Keneally. Tues 8pm Foxrock Local History Club, Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre. Queen Victoria, Frank Woods; The story behind the stained glass window of the Madonna and Child in Foxrock Church, Liam Clare. Adm. €5.
May 6
Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Do the Irish speak English?, Terry Dolan. Adm. ?3.
May 01
Tues 1pm Irish Georgian Society,58 South William St., Dublin 2. Historic doors and staircases: their history and conservation, Peter Clarke. Adm. €15. Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs, Delgany. The Irish showband phenomenon, Frank Darcy. Adm. €3.
June 30
1921 The brothers Richard (24) and Abraham Pearson (19) were executed by an IRA firing party on their farm at Coolacrease in the foothills of the Slieve Bloom Mountains. The pair had been court-martialled for firing on IRA Volunteers, who were cutting down trees on their land for the purpose of mounting a roadblock. 1690 … Read more