I would like to extend an invitation to your members from Naas Local History Group to the launch of two books on Monday 5th December in the Town House Hotel, Newbridge Road, Naas. “The O’Kelly Brothers” Compiled and edited by James Durney with Liam Kenny. “Looking back at Revolutionary Kildare…
The National Library of Ireland has been archiving the Irish web since 2011. This year, as part of NLI2016, the National Library’s programme for 2016, we are collecting 400 websites that focus on the commemorations of 1916 and life in Ireland in 2016. “Remembering 1916, Recording 2016” is our largest…
A new website – google “Meitheal Logainm” designed to capture field names and other local names is now online and is open for contributions from everybody. The site is extremely user-friendly and affords the opportunity to log on to a map local names such as field names, lanes, cross-roads, street…
Originally published in Vol 5, No. 6, 1908 in an article entitled “Customs peculiar to certain days, formerly observed in County Kildare”. This part describes the customs associated with Samhain or Hallowe’en. Link to Journal Article
A dinner to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society in 1891 was held recently in Palmerstown House. Here are some photos, courtesy of Oliver Murphy, of the event.
