2018 – Programme of talks (Celbridge Library) and Outings
Monday, 5 February 2018
7.30 pm: AGM
7.50 p.m: Archive footage of 1950s Celbridge Scrapbook of Celbridge filmed and narrated by the late Edward (Ned) Condell (introduced by his Daughters Frances and Ann). Drinks reception.
(Monday, 5 March 2018 – talk postponed due to very inclement weather. New date TBA)
7.30 pm: Brendan Twomey : Swift : Cleric, Banker and Financier
Monday, 9 April 2018
7.30pm: Workshop by Róisín Berry, archivist
What to keep for the next generation? Sorting household documents, photographs and sentimental objects to create your own family archive
Monday, 14 May 2018
7.30 pm: Ciarán Mac an Bhaird: How we measure: a brief history
Monday, 11 June 2018 (moved from March)
7.30 pm: Brendan Twomey : Swift : Cleric, Banker and Financier
Monday, 3 September 2018
7.30 pm: Pat Lonergan: Conversations at Moore Abbey between 1925 and 1937 – a snapshot in time (John McCormack and friends)
Monday, 1 October 2018
7.30 pm: John Dredge : Robert Barton, Wicklow Landlord, and his role in the independence struggle (1918-1923)
Monday, 5 November 2018
7.30 pm: Mario Corrigan: Illustrated talk and look back on the Sinking of the
RMS Leinster during World War One. 10th October 2018 is the Centenary of the sinking. The RMS Leinster operated between Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) and Holyhead, Wales. Officially 501 people were killed when the ship was Torpedoed by a German submarine.
Monday, 3 December 2018
7.30 pm: Dallas Camier, Audio Visual Group of Celbridge Camera Club: short talk on the McMurrough Kavanagh family from Borris followed by a film called The Incredible Arthur. This will be followed by another film from the group on the history of Gordon Bennett, the rally driver. And Pre-Christmas drinks reception.
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Programme of Outings:
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
11.00 a.m. : Professor Marian Lyons: Decade of Commemorations Time Line at Maynooth University; Lunch in the Pugin Refectory; visit to Saving the Famine Irish: the Grey Nuns and the Great Hunger exhibition in the Russell Library.
Saturday, 17 March 2018
St Patrick’s day visit to Oratory, Well and Hill
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Guided tour of State Apartments, Dublin Castle; visit to Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger Art Exhibition (on loan from Quinnipiac University Connecticut); Lunch at Silk Road and Tour of Chester Beatty Library – The Coetivy Hours Miniature exhibition.
Saturday, 7 July 2018
Open Day at Prospect House Gardens