LIST OF TALKS AND EVENTS FOR 2014 – CELBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TALKS
• Monday, 3 February
Celbridge Library 7 pm: Annual General Meeting followed by 8 pm: Eoghan Corry: “Slanty Dan and the Danes – the Ardclough man who caused the Battle of Clontarf” – (Domhnall Claen, King of Leinster was invested on Lyons Hill)
• Monday, 3 March, 8 pm
Wesley Bourke: “Thomas Conolly and the American Civil War”
• Monday, 7 April, 8 pm
Declan O’Keeffe: “The Man Who Married a Mountain and Other Stories: How the Irish conquered the Alps”
• Monday, 13 May, 8 pm
Margaret O’Hoghartaigh and Clara Cullen: “The John Charles McQuaid Papers”
• Monday, 1 September, 8 pm
Ida Milne: “The Quiet Quarterback – Protestants and the GAA”
• Monday, 6 October, 8 pm
Fionnuala Walsh: “Impact of the First World War on Women in Ireland”
• Monday, 3 November, 8pm
To be announced
OUTINGS AND EVENTS – DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED CLOSER TO THE EVENT
Monday, 17 March
St. Patrick’s Day:
Visit to Ancient Church, Hill and Well of St Patrick. Meet at Church (Ardrass) at 11 am.
• June (date to be announced):
Terry Fagan, walking tour in Dublin: “The Monto”
• July (date to be announced):
Morning: Tour of Prospect House Gardens, Sallins
Afternoon: Tour of Gloster House (Co Offaly) followed by visit of nearby Bellefield House and Garden, Shinrone near Birr (Angela Jupe, Landscape Gardener: www.angelajupe.ie)
• August (date and location to be announced)
(22.01.2014)