Tag: Seminar

Details of the 2019 Irish Military Seminar to be held in Newbridge Co. Kildare in June have been announced. See below.

Programme:

THURSDAY 6 JUNE: NEWBRIDGE LIBRARY

19:00 pm Official opening of the Seminar

Book Launch — A Bloody Dawn: The Irish at D-Day, Dan Harvey

THURSDAY 13 JUNE: NEWBRIDGE LIBRARY

18:45 pm Reception

19:15 pm Downed Luftwaffe Aircraft, Mick Rowley

19:55 pm Technological Advances in the Boer War, Liam Kenny

20:45 pm Kildare and the Irish War of Independence, Mick Murphy

FRIDAY 14 JUNE: RIVERBANK ARTS CENTRE, NEWBRIDGE

18:00 pm Reception

19:00 pm Heroes of Jadotville, Leo Quinlan

20:00 pm The Battle of At Tiri, a panel discussion with Irish veterans, facilitated by Sgt. Wayne FitzGerald, Editor of An Cosantóir

SATURDAY 15 JUNE: RIVERBANK ARTS CENTRE, NEWBRIDGE

9:00 am –16:00 pm Full day of presentations from noted historians: Dr. Myles Dungan, Dr. Ruan O’Donnell, Dr. Leeann Lane, Des Ekin, Dr. T. Ryle Dwyer and Dr. Mary McAuliffe

Topics: The Battle of Kinsale; Dorothy Macardle, Irish Neutrality in WWII; IRA Border Campaign 1956; Margaret Skinnider; The Irish at the Battle of Little Big Horn

BOOKING ESSENTIAL

THURSDAY: FREE – Newbridge Library newbridgelib@kildarecoco.ie or 045 448353

FRIDAY: FREE – BOOKING ESSENTIAL – BOXOFFICE@RIVERBANK.IE / 045-448327

SATURDAY: €5 BOOKING ESSENTIAL – BOXOFFICE@RIVERBANK.IE / 045-448327

County Kildare Archaeology Society’s Annual Seminar – ‘The End of the Great War and Ireland in 1918’

September 28, 2018

The County Kildare Archaeological Society’s seminar: ‘The End of the Great War and Ireland in 1918’ will take place in the Killashee House Hotel on Saturday 10th November 2018. This seminar, through its contributors, will reflect on the enormous issues that faced Ireland 100 years ago. The Society is honoured to have Diarmaid Ferriter give the keynote lecture.

The seminar is an integrate part of the National Calendar of Events and is being supported by Kildare County Council and the County Kildare Decade of Commemoration Committee. The Society wishes to appeal to its members and friends to support this historic event by their attendance and early booking to secure their seats and provision of lunch.

The programme and booking details can be downloaded from the society’s website as a PDF by clicking here.

Further details can be had from Bernadette Doyle: 087 2498706 or Hugh Crawford: 087 9072994.

The County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups have announced details of the 19th Annual Seminar & AGM titled The Black Flu and Khaki Election, 1918.

The seminar and AGM will be hosted by Naas Local History Group in association with Kilare County Council’s Library and Arts Services and will take place on Saturday the 6 of October, 2018, in the Osprey Hotel, Naas, Co. Kildare.

Programme of talks:

8.45 a.m. Tea/Coffee and Registration

9.15 a.m. AGM – Business of the Federation

10.05 a.m. Mayor of Kildare, Cllr. Séan Power – Launch of Seminar

10.15 a.m. Dr. Ida Milne, Stacking the Coffins

Dr. Ida Milne is author of Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918–19.

Dr. Milne will give a talk on how the 1918-19 influenza pandemic disrupted Irish society and politics. Stilling cities and towns as it passed through, it closed schools, courts and libraries, quelled trade, crammed hospitals, and stretched medical doctors to their limit as they treated hundreds of patients each day. It became part of a major row between nationalists and the Government over interned anti-conscription campaigners. When one campaigner died days before the 1918 general election, Sinn Féin swiftly incorporated his death into their campaign. Survivors interviewed by the author tell what it was like to suffer from this influenza; families of the bereaved speak of the change to their lives. Stacking the coffins is the first Irish history of the disease to include statistics to analyse which groups were most affected. It also draws on the memories of child sufferers telling their stories.

11 a.m. Tea Coffee

11.30 a.m. Ronnie Kinnane, Naas and the Black Flu

12.15 p.m. Frank Taaffe, The Flu Epidemic in Athy

13.00- 13.30 p.m. Q & A – President, Paddy Behan to facilitate

13.30 p.m. Lunch

14.30 p.m. Mario Corrigan, The death of John Redmond

14.45 p.m. Thomas Nelson, The 1918 General Election in Kildare

Thomas Nelson is the author of Through peace and war – Kildare Co. Council in the years of revolution 1899-1926

The members and electors of the first Kildare County Council of 1899 were confidently preparing for a Home Rule Ireland, securely within the British Empire, and with a Parliament in College Green. A quarter of a century later the Ireland they lived in was entirely different to what they had looked forward to. This is the story of how the council conducted local government in Kildare, from the peaceful revolution at its beginning, through the trauma of the Great War, the Easter rising and the subsequent conflict and civil strife, to emerge in a partitioned Ireland in the 1920s which they had never envisaged.

15.50 p.m. Society Speak for members of the Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups to outline each groups’ activities since the last AGM.

16.30 p.m. END

The 18th Annual Seminar and AGM of the Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups will take place on Saturday 7th of October 2017.

This year the seminar will undergo a change in format and location; taking place in Celbridge under the auspices of Celbridge Historical Society who have kindly offered to host us.

It promises to be an interesting day of local history in one of our county’s historic planned towns. Celbridge has a wealth of historic architectural structures of regional and national importance and connections with many highly significant historic personages from its era as an estate town, however,  like most Irish towns and villages it also has roots in ancient ecclesiastical settlements as its name would suggest. A visit to some of the historic locations of the Liffey town is planned as part of the day.

The new seminar/AGM format will retain its well established emphasis on sharing our experiences and catching up on the activities of the various member groups during the previous year. There will be the usual chance for chats over tea and coffee and an optional lunch will be available locally between the indoor and outdoor parts of the day.

So make a note in your diary for the 7th of October!

Further details will be announced at a later date.

Towns in Medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations.

Spaces are limited, so please book your place in advance! Admission €10 per day, payable at the door. Bookings through eventbrite.ie

Papers include:

FRIDAY

The European Historic Towns Atlas (Anngret Simms)
Ardfert Cathedral (Fionnbarr Moore),
Athboy, Co. Meath (Niall Roycroft)
Athy, Co. Kildare (Marc Guernon)
Buttevant, Co. Cork (Trish Long & John O’Connor)
Castledermot, Co. Kildare (Sharon Greene)
Drogheda, Co. Louth (Thaddeus Breen)
Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny (Ben Murtagh)
St Mary’s Church, Kilkenny (Cóilín Ó Drisceoil)
Kilmallock, Co. Limerick (Frank Coyne)
Navan, Co. Meath (Niall Roycroft)
New Ross, Co. Wexford (Emmet Stafford)
Rindoon, Co. Roscommon (Liam Mannix)

SATURDAY

Blackfriary, Trim (Fin O’Carroll), Castledermot
Co. Kildare (Ed O’Donovan)
Dominican friary, Mullingar (Thaddeus Breen)
Dundalk, Co. Louth (Paul Gosling)
Ennis, Co. Clare (Risteard UaCróinín)
Fethard, Co. Tipperary (Dave Pollock)
Grey Abbey, Kildare (Emer Dennehy)
Navan, Co. Meath (Clare Ryan)
Nobber, Co. Meath (Matt Seaver)
St Mary’s Abbey, Carlow (Judith Carroll)
Swords Castle (Christine Baker)

Talk by Prof Christopher Ridgway (Castle Howard, Yorkshire) titled ‘The country house archive: much more than a pile of paper’ to be held on Thursday 23 March 2017 at 6 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 3, the Hume Building, North Campus, Maynooth University.

Admission to this lecture is FREE. However,  in order to attend you must register before 20 March 2017 by replying to terence.a.dooley@nuim.ie.

NUI Maynooth Department of History Research Seminar