August 11-16

Sun–Fri Parnell Summer School, Avondale House, Co. Wicklow. Parnell and Kennedy: lost leaders. Enquiries: Deirdre Larkin, 
+353(0)1 2852113, dlarkin@parnellsociety.com. Wed    8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, Co. Dublin. Leo Swan Memorial Lecture: Corporeal relics, tents and shrines in medieval Ireland, Cormac Bourke. Adm. €4.

August 11-16

Sun–Fri Parnell Summer School, Avondale House, Co. Wicklow. Parnell and Kennedy: lost leaders. Enquiries: Deirdre Larkin, 
+353(0)1 2852113, dlarkin@parnellsociety.com. Tues    8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, Co. Dublin. The Late Iron Age and ‘Roman’ Ireland Project: preliminary findings and future research, Jacqueline Cahill Wilson. Adm. €4.

August 11-16

Sun–Fri Parnell Summer School, Avondale House, Co. Wicklow. Parnell and Kennedy: lost leaders. Enquiries: Deirdre Larkin, 
+353(0)1 2852113, dlarkin@parnellsociety.com. Mon    8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, Co. Dublin. Contacts between Ireland and Britain in the Iron Age/early medieval period, as revealed by the Irish burial record, Elizabeth O’Brien. Adm. €4.

Sugar and the blue-eyed slave

RTE Radio’s ‘Documentary on One’ slot recently broadcast ‘Sugar and the Blue-Eyed Slave’; Joe Kearney’s exploration of the strong Irish connection with the Carribbean island of Montserrat, famously devastated by a volcanic eruption in the 1990s. Joe Kearney first heard of the Irish link to the island from Philly Lynch, a Kilkenny philatelist, who showed … Read more