NAAS THEN & NOW 1916-2016 Tues. 19th April – Friday 29th April 2016 Naas Public Library – (opening hours) The Exhibition will take you back one hundred years or more in pictures to a Naas of bygone days. It will offer an opportunity to compare and contrast many unique images…
The 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland will be held at Maynooth University, Ireland, from Friday 15 April to Monday 18 April 2016. The Society exists to promote the study of names, both place-names and personal names. This year’s conference is being organised…
As the Society continues its annual programme on Saturday next with Michael Potterton’s talk on ‘Town development in Ireland under the Anglo-Normans’, I would like to again, thank the six speakers, those who attended, those who assisted on the day and all who helped in any way in making the…
Kildare Decade of Commemoration – 1916 Programme
LECTURE 6 Monday, 4 April 8.00 pm Dr Ciarán Reilly (CSHIHE) 1916 and the Irish country house: A Kildare perspective The events of 1916, from the Rising to the Battle of the Somme, changed the world of the Irish country house forever. This lecture presents a unique perspective of 1916 from…
Don’t forget 1916 Seminar in Killashee House Hotel, next Saturday 12th March. Full details on homepage.
Life in 1916 Ireland : Stories from statistics was published today by the CSO to mark the centenary of 1916 by illustrating what life was like for people living 100 years ago.
‘Rathangan Castle’ Lecture by Seamus Kelly Thursday March 10th 8pm Rathangan Library This Rathangan History Group event promises to be a most informative lecture by well-known local historian Seamus Kelly on one of the lessor known sites in County Kildare.
My name is Samuel Beckton, I am an International Peace Studies student at Trinity College Dublin, for the centenary anniversary of the 1916 Easter rising, I am currently writing my dissertation: ‘An Investigation of the Evolution of the Unionist Identity and Ideology in the Republic of Ireland since 1922’. The…
