While there may be no actual CKAS events taking place during the CoVID-19 emergency, you can still get your history fix by accessing podcasts on the History Ireland portal – www.historyireland.com/podcast. You can also subscribe via your own preferred podcast programme.
As part of Newbridge, Co Kildare’s June Fest’s online festival, Dr Conor Morrissey will deliver a talk via Facebook Live on Tuesday, 26 May at 8.00.pm. It may be accessed by logging on to the June Fest Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/junefestnewbridge/ From the late 19th century, until the end of the…
On Friday 13th March 2020 the Co Kildare Archaelogical Society cancelled all events and talks for the foreseeable future (see here) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With Ireland on lockdown, many historical societies did the same. But, what to do? Many people wanted to continue, in some form, lectures…
The Rector and Select Vestry of St David’s Church, Naas, and the Follies Trust invite you to a lecture by Dr Finbar McCormick on “Mauselea & monuments to the dead in Ireland” in St David’s Church, Naas on Thursday 12th March 2020 at 8pm. There will be a reception at…
Long a centre for monumental carving, Kilkenny is equally rich in medieval and post-medieval memorials. Kilkenny: Memorial Capital of Ireland will take them as a starting point for a wider examination of Irish memorials, including aspects such as their design, execution and history. This event follows the recent creation of…
The annual Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) conference will take place in Maynooth University on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th June 2020. This year’s theme is ‘Storytelling and Oral History’, offering oral history practitioners an opportunity to reflect on the role played by storytelling within interviews, the factors that…
The Rector and Select Vestry of St David’s Church, Naas, and the Follies Trust invite you to a lecture by Andrew Tierney on “Pyramids and Follies in Central Leinster” in St David’s Church, Naas on Thursday 30th January 2020 at 8pm. There will be a reception at 7:30pm, and all…
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold… safe return doubtful.” Shackleton tells the story of the sinking of the ship Endurance on the Antarctic’s icy Weddell Sea in 1916, and the subsequent escape of the Irish expedition leader Ernest Shackleton and his crew from the Antarctic over a…
(1) Naas Community Library Presents ‘God, Honour, Country.’ The Polish 2nd Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944. Tuesday 27 August 7.00pm To commemorate the 75th Anniversary, historian James Durney will give an illustrated talk on the Polish 2nd Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944. This…
Rathangan Local History Group – ‘The Great Escaper. Flight Lt. Mike Casey and the Rathangan connection.‘ – a talk by James Durney (CKAS Council Member), historian with Kildare Arts and Library Service,on Wednesday March 20th at 8pm in the Old Schoolhouse Rathangan. The Great Escape is an iconic film loosely based on…
