October 23
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse Street. Managing money in early eighteenth-century Ireland: Swift and money, Brendan Twomey.
Nick Maxwell
October 22
Tues 8pm Howth Peninsula Heritage Society, Angling Centre. The history of the Post Office, Stephen Ferguson. Adm. €5.
October 17
Thur 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel. The shadow war: Michael Collins and the politics of violence, Joe Connell. Adm. €5. Thur 8pm Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society, Holy Rosary Centre. The Kennedys of Mount Kennedy, Theresa Hicks.
Mr Churchill goes to Belfast, 8 February 1912
On 9 February 1912 the Belfast News-letter reported that ‘yesterday the Right Honourable Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, paid his much discussed visit to Belfast, and, in company with Mr Redmond and Mr Devlin, addressed a Home Rule meeting in the Celtic Park grounds under the presidency of Lord Pirrie K.P. Without … Read more