This conference, exploring the life and times of St Brigid and her Church of Kildare from the 5th to the 9th centuries, is taking place in Maynooth University on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th September The list of speakers is available on https://brigid1500.ie/event/brigids-worlds-conference/ Professor Professor Catherine McKenna is delivering a…
Sat 14th October in Keadeen Hotel @9am to 5pm Kildare Wildlife Rescue, in partnership with Kildare County Council, is hosting this one-day event . The conference will offer a platform to individuals, organisations and groups, engaged in the area of biodiversity in Kildare. The objectives of the conference are as…
The County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups has organised a series of talks in the run-up to the Brigid 1500 celebrations in 2024. The talks will commence during Heritage Week 2023 and continue each month until January 2024. The talks will take place in Kilcullen Heritage Centre and entry…
Library Lunchtime Lecture Series, in collaboration with Coiste Léann na Gaeilge, Litríocht na Gaeilge agus na gCultúr Ceilteach, celebrating the 1500th anniversary of the birth of St Colum Cille. Starting on Wednesday 25th August at 1PM and continuing until 6th October. Further details and the full programme available through this link: https://www.ria.ie/colum-cille-1500-teacsanna-agus-traidisiuin-columba-1500-texts-and-traditions
It is amazing what you can discover about your local area from the snug safety of your home. We are delighted, through funding from Kildare County Council, to offer a FREE online course that will take you step-by-step through the available online sources that will allow you to paint a…
A lecture by Arnold Horner in honour of the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer. A lecture by Arnold Horner in honour of the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer, who died on 15 November 2019. With a short response by Keith…
Overview This seminar sets out to explore the experience of Southern Protestants between 1900 and 1923, and how they ‘became strangers’ in the newly established and very Catholic Free State. Accounting for 10% of the population of what would become the Free State in the 1911 census, their numbers declined…
Royal Irish Academy Discourse Lecture with cultural heritage expert, Dr Mounir Bouchenaki ‘Cultural heritage and recent armed conflicts’ Online event on Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 19:00 GMT Complimentary booking via: https://www.ria.ie/cultural-heritage-and-recent-armed-conflicts With a response from Grainne Shaffrey, President, ICOMOS Ireland Dr Mounir Bouchenaki has had a 25-year career in…
The recent conservation work, undertaken by the Follies Trust to the two pyramid mausolea in Maudlins burial ground, Naas, is almost complete. The scaffolding is down and the doors have been delivered to a blacksmith to undertake the final conservation work. As you may be aware the Society contributed a small…
Once again Heritage Week has come around; normally CKAS would have an event but Covid-19 means that we are far from ‘normal’. However Heritage Week is proceeding albeit in different and interesting forms mainly online but with some limited ‘in-person’ events. Therefore I thought I might take this opportunity to…
