October 2

Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel. The Famine and workhouses in County Wicklow, Moira Byrne. Adm. €3.

September 29 – October 14

Oct (2 weeks) Dublin Festival of History, http://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie. Speakers include: Chris Patten, Janina Ramirez, Ian Kershaw, Robert Service.

September 19

Thur 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel, Bray. The 1867 Bray Head derailment, James Scannell. Adm. €5.

September 12

Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. Dorothy Macardle: unlikely republican, Leeann Lane.

September 08-10

Fri–Sun Féile Fidelma, Hall of the Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel. Peter Tremayne, Nancy Marck Cantwell, Marteinn Thorisson, Hans van den Boom, Patrick Gleeson, Kevin Murray, David Robert Wooten; www.sisterfidelma.com.