June 19

Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Club, Leixlip Library. A city divided: Sunday 13 August 1961—in Berlin for the Wall, John Colgan.

June 15

Tues 8pm Howth Peninsula Heritage Society, Angling Centre. Cold iron: the folklore of fishing, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn. Adm. €5.

June 12

Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square. The love of the land: the importance of the potato, Seán Bagnall.  Tues 8pm Skerries Historical Society, Keane’s Bus Bar. Entertainment in independent Ireland: a Skerries perspective, Ger Dooley.

June 11

Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library. Thomas Francis Meagher, Seán Bagnall. Tues 8pm Skerries Historical Society, Skerries Bowling Club. The people who made Skerries Library, Oona Roycroft.

June 6

Fri 8pm NUI Maynooth History Forum, Rhetoric House. Trim’s first cousin, the twelfth-century donjon at Maynooth Castle, Tadgh O’Keeffe.