January 20

Mon 7.30pm Lecale & Downe Historical Society, Down County Museum, The Mall, Downpatrick. The poor’s money—the work of churches c. 1650 to 1740 in caring for the sick, wounded and those in hardship, Horace Reid. Adm. £2.

January 19

Sat 1pm Irish Labour History Society, ILHS premises, Beggar’s Bush. Programme or placebo? The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil, Emmet O’Connor, Evanna Craig, Jack O’Connor, Charles Callan, D.R. O’Connor Lysaght.

January 15

Wed 8pm Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society, Royal Marine Hotel. Shankill, Rob Goodbody. Adm. €3. Wed 8pm Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society, Holy Rosary Centre. Experiences and contributions of women during the War of Independence, Mary McAuliffe.

January 14

Thur     7pm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown 1916 Committee, The Lexicon, DL. Social conditions in Dún Laoghaire during 1916, Pádraig Yeates. Thur     8.30pm Enniskerry History Society, Powerscourt Arms and Country House Hotel. Tales of Enniskerry, Brian White. Adm. €3.

January 12

Fri 1pm National Monuments and Buildings Record for Northern Ireland, PRONI. Planning Belfast, 1923–2001, Andrew Malloy. Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road. French military intervention in Ireland 1689–1691, Harman Murtagh.