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The Local Authority Heritage Officers Network invites you to a new series of Climate Action webinars. Join us for four one-hour sessions every Thursday, starting on 27th January at 9.30am. …
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Overview Spies Rebels and Informers 2, takes place on Saturday December 4th 2021, and features presentations by Brian Hand, Liz Gillis and Seamus Cullen. Brian Hand’s presentation Once an Intelligence …
The next event from Creative Rathangan takes place online on Thursday Nov 25th at 7.30 pm. Details below: Marking the centenary of the Foundation of Northern Ireland Dr Sean B …
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Creative Rathangan Meitheal is marking European Year of Rail 2021 with a talk by Seán Cain on Bord na Moná’s railway system. For over seventy years Bord na Móna have …
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Online on 18 September 2021 at 19.30 Kildare’s forgotten Fenian, John Kenny, will be remembered at the annual John Devoy Seminar on 18 September 2021, at 19.30 in a presentation …
Remembering 1920: War, Politics and Sport, an event of Maynooth University Decade of Commemorations Committee, organised by Professors Marian Lyons and Terence Dooley of the History Department. This is a …
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Book Launch & Talk: Remembrance: The World War I Dead of Co. Kildare & Talk by Ronan McGreevy (The Irish Times) Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 19.30pm This important new …
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The Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee are delighted to present the 5th annual Irish Military Seminar. The 2021 programme of free events are taking place from the 8th to the …
Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) is a hugely important national and international resource for scholars of Irish society, history, and culture. The DIB has a digital corpus …
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The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), a hugely important national and international resource for scholars of Irish society, history and culture, moved its digital corpus of nearly 11,000 biographical entries …
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The Story of Rathangan’s Quaker Community from the birth of William Sheldon in 1692 to the departure of Sidney G Nicholson in 1928. Sat, 20 February 2021 10:00am – 12:30 …
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