Nov 25

Mon    8.30pm Kill History Group, Parish Meeting Room. Serving the State: 50 years of Irish Air Corps helicopter operations, Capt. David Brown.

Whatever happened to the Irish Volunteers?

Monday 25 November marks the centenary of the foundation of the Irish Volunteers: an organization that remains strangely neglected by historians. There are a couple of articles on the Volunteers in the current issue of History Ireland, but a quick glance through our back catalogue didn’t turn up much. We have some very good articles … Read more

Nov 21

Thur    8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, 10 Prince of Wales Tce, Quinsboro Road. William Dargan, an honourable life, 1799–1867: looking at the life of the railway engineer, Fergus Mulligan. Adm. €4.

Ballyshannon & the Erne scheme: dammed or damned?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20131121-HistoryIrelandShow-030.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..”   @ Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Abbey Centre, Sat 9 Nov 5.30pm Tommy Graham with Brian Drummond, Michael Kennedy, Jonathon Bardon, Pauraic Travers