Nick Maxwell

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.

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.

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

Tues 7.30pm Portlaoise Library The massacre of Mullaghmast in 1577, Turtle Bunbury.

Wed 7pm DLR County Council Spring of Heritage, Marlay Park, Rathfarnham. Ballycorus lead works, Rob Goodbody.