June 13

Thur 6.30pm Antrim & Down Branch Western Front Association, PRONI, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter. Beyond the Somme: Brig.-Gen. Frank Crozier and the Welsh Bantam Brigade, Mike Taylor.

May 31

Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Helen Roe Lecture—Skellig Michael: unpeeling its many layers, Grellan O’Rourke. Thur 8pm Rathmines, Ranelagh & Rathgar Historical Society, Rathmines Town Hall. Alfie Byrne, lord mayor of Dublin, Trevor White. Adm. €3.

May 23

Thur 11am DLR Lexicon, Room 4, Level 5, Haig Terrace. Queen Victoria and the Kingstown connection, Frank Woods. Thur 7pm DLR Bealtaine Festival, Shankill Library. Captain Hermann Goertz: a German WWII intelligence gatherer who stayed in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown area, James Scannell.

May 16

Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Group, Leixlip Library. History of horse-racing in Leixlip and environs, John Colgan. Thur 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel. The traders of Castle Street and Dublin Road, Bray, Mark Murphy & Brian White. Adm. €5.

April 29

Mon 8pm Clondalkin Historical Society, Áras Chrónáin, Watery Lane. Celtic monasticism, Eimear Ging.