Great Connell Churchyard book launch in Newbridge Library
“Great Connell Churchyard” will be launched in Newbridge Library on Wednesday 25th April at 7pm.
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Exhibition launch: ‘On active service’: Maynooth College, Chaplains & the Anti-Conscription Crisis’
Russell Library, NUI Maynooth: Exhibition Launch ‘On Active Service’: Maynooth College, Chaplains & the Anti-Conscription Crisis on Wednesday, 18th April 2018 at 1:00pm RSVP by Wednesday, 11th April 2018 to library.russell@mu.ie Download the flyer by clicking here.
6th Annual Historic Houses Conference
Booking is now open for the 16th Annual Historic Houses Conference. The event will take place in Maynooth University from the 8-9 June 2018. The theme of this years conference is ‘The Country House: Sport and Leisure’. Full conference and day rates are available. Further details are attached here and can…
Spring forward – and our first outing of 2018
Irish Standard Time will come into effect on Sunday 25th at 1am – so don’t forget to put your clocks forward. Forgetting to do so could mean missing out on our first meeting of 2018, which is not on! Sunday 25 March, 3.00pm ‘We have lost our great Mrs Conolly’…
CKAS member to speak at “Local History Group Day”
Brian McCabe will deliver a talk on “Collection of Edwardian Postcards” at the ‘Local History Group Day’ taking place in the Pearse Street Library on Saturday 24th March. More details on this event may be seen by clicking here.
On the icy plains of Kildare – Big Snows of 1947, 1963 and 1982
“snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard…
Book Launch: “Brothers in Arms”
Kildare County Council Decade of Commemorations Committee cordially invites you to the launch of “Brothers in Arms: The remarkable story of William and James Roantree” by Michael Kenny in Leixlip Community Library at Tuesday, 20 February 2018, at 7.15 p.m. William Francis Roantree famously shook his fist at the British…
Ceardlann Mionlogainmneacha 2018 / Minor Placenames Workshop 2018
Tá ceardlann á reáchtáil ag Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU, chun cúrsaí mionlogainmneacha (logainmneacha nach ainmneacha riaracháin ná ionaid daonra iad) a phlé. Beidh an cheardlann seo suimiúil do thaighdeoirí logainmníochta, do chumainn áitiúla oidhreachta agus staire agus do dhuine ar bith a bhíonn ag cur le Meitheal Logainm.ie. Beidh…
“Stacking the Coffins” – by Ida Milne (CKAS Member)
“Stacking the Coffins – Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19” by long time CKAS member Ida Milne is due for publication in May of this year. The 1918-19 influenza pandemic disrupted Irish society and politics. Stilling cities and towns as it passed through, it closed schools, courts and libraries,…
Talk on Æ (George William Russell) by Clane Local History Group
Clane Local History Group are proud to present a talk on Æ (George William Russell) by Jimmy Conway – Lurgan Co. Armagh Æ (George William Russell), was a well-known Irish nationalist, writer, poet, artist and publisher and a contemporary of James Joyce and W. B.Yeats. Although born in Lurgan Co….