Website of the Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups
As you will know, it has been our practice in the Federation, in recent years, to hold an Annual General Meeting/Conference in October each year. We have been discussing (remotely) in committee what we should do this year and have concluded, reluctantly, that it would be wiser to postpone the AGM for the present – given …
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The 17th Annual Historic Houses Conference will take place at Maynooth University, Castletown House and the National Gallery of Ireland on 13-15th May 2019. The theme of event will be ‘Country House Collections: Their Past, Present & Future’. The conference will look at how and why collections were amassed, examine their break up, and consider …
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The theme of the Sixteenth Annual Historic Houses Conference, to be held at Maynooth University on 8-9 June 2018, will be ‘The Country House: Sport and Leisure’. Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organised to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’ Throughout Ireland, Britain, and Europe the country …
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15th Annual Historic Houses Conference will take place in Dublin Castle from 19-21 June 2017. The Country House Revived? will focus on the survival and revival of historic houses across Ireland, the UK, and Europe in the course of the last fifty years. The conference will be accompanied by a photographic exhibition. Across Europe increasing …
The 2017 annual conference of the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement will focus on settlement in South Kildare. The conference in association with Castledermot Local History Group will be held in the Seven Oaks Hotel, Carlow on the weekend of the 5-7 May. Speakers: Gillian Barret, Charlie Doherty, Sharon Greene, Arnold Horner, …
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Rathcroghan Conference: Archaeology Above & Below 2017 8th & 9th April 2017 We are delighted to announce our 2017 Conference Programme: This year our sessions are divided thematically, with focused sessions on Graveyard Studies, Wetland Archaeology, Landscape Studies as well as individual case-studies on particular environments both in Ireland and further afield. As well as …
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