Lectures | Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society

PROGRAMME 2016

SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 25^th 2016
Why Did The 1690 Siege fail?
Dr. Padraig Lenihan NUIG

February Monday 8^th
In Search Of identity – The Conditioning Of Idealists 1901-1916
John Collins

February Monday 22^nd
John Redmond – What If?
Dermot Meleady

March Monday 7^th
Lizzie twigg – the Forgotten Limerick poet
Dr Milo Spillane

March Monday 21^st
John Edward Daly (1891-1916)
Liam Irwin

April Monday 18^th
The Irish Revolution 1913-1923
Dr. Padraig O Ruairc

AUTUMN LECTURES

September Monday 26^th
Poulnabrone: A Tomb For Ireland’s Earliest Farmers
Dr. Ann Lynch

October Monday 31^st
Easter Widows
Sinead Mc Coole

November Monday 21^st
Roger Casement
Dr Angus Mitchell UL

PROGRAMME 2017

SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 23^rd
Postcards Of County Limerick
Canon Donough O’Malley

February Monday 27^th
Ballylin Hillfort: A Bronze Age Capital Of Limerick?
Prof. William O Brien UCC

March Monday 27^th
Millers, Merchants, Mayors, Lane-Joynt Families Limerick
Dr Paul O Brien

April Monday 24^th
Community Archaeology And The Great Famine: A Burren Story
Margaret Ronayne NUIG

AUTUMN LECTURES

September Monday 25^th
The Archaeology Of The Vikings In Clare
Eamonn P Kelly

October Monday 23^rd
The Limerick Clothing Company- Stitching Together The History Of Ireland’s Largest Army Clothing Manufacturer
Sharon Slater

November Monday 6^th
The 17^thAnd 18^th Century Iron Industry In East Clare And South East Galway
Dr Paul Rondelez

November Monday 20^th
‘Through The Eye Of The Stranger’: Observations On linerick c1850-1914
Prof Gearoid O Tuathaigh

PROGRAMME 2018

SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 22^nd
Limerick Related Photographs
Randel Hodkinson

February Monday 19^th
Limerick Railway Connections
Joe Coleman

March Monday 5^nd
Lough Gur – Recent Archaeological Research At Grange Stone Circle
Dr, Rose Cleary UCC

March Monday 26^th
The Traaty County Orange Men – Historical Notes On Orangeism In limerick
Quintan Dougan

April Monday 23^rd
Brendan O Regan
Cian O Carroll/Brian O Connell

AUTUMN LECTURES

September Monday 24^th
Murphy Devitt – Stained Glass In Limerick And Clare
Dr Charlotte Murphy

October Monday 22^nd
Brian Boraimh – The Hero At Home
Lenore Fischer

November Monday 5^th
Everyday Life And Politics In Limerick In 1918
Dr. Brian Hughes, Mary Imaculate College

November Monday 19^th
‘Michael Joyce MP,1900-1918
Dr Tadhg Moloney

Programme 2026

SPRING LECTURES
Lecture: January Monday 19th
Aspects of Limerick’s archaeology
Speaker: Sarah McCutcheon

Annual Lunch: February Sunday 8th
Castletroy Park Hotel
Speaker: Regina Sexton
Evidence of a medieval-style of cookery in later medieval Ireland
Organiser: Mary Kenehan

Lecture: February Monday 16th
A hundred years of the Gaelic Grounds
Speaker: Paul Foley

Lecture: March Monday 2nd
P. W. Joyce (1827-1914): Pioneering educationist who shaped an emerging nation
Speaker: Professor Teresa O’Doherty

Lecture: March Monday 23rd
Making his mark: Bishop Cornelius O'Dea and St Mary's cathedral, Limerick
Speaker: Professor Rachel Moss

Lecture: April Monday 27th
The Dromcollogher cinema tragedy
Pat Savage

SUMMER OUTINGS
Half Day outing: May Sunday 10th
Shanid, Knock Patrick and Shanagolden
Organiser: Dr Charlotte Murphy

Evening outing: June Wednesday 10th
Saint Mary’s Cathedral
Organiser: Cian O’Carroll

Half-day outing: June Sunday, 28th
Shannon Town Hinterland
(in conjunction with Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society)
Organiser: Dr Charlotte Murphy

Full-day outing: July Sunday 12th
Kilkenny/Tipperary Border
Organiser: Marian Cody

Half-day outing: July Sunday 19th
Buttevant
Organiser: Liam Irwin

Evening outing: July, Wednesday 29th
Castle Street
Organiser: John Elliott

Afternoon outing: August Sunday 9th
Broadford and Kilbane
Organiser: Marian Cody

Evening outing: August Wednesday 12th
Dutch gabled architecture of Limerick City
Organiser: John Elliott

Afternoon outing: August Sunday 23rd
Dromcollogher
Pat Savage

September (Dates T.B.C.) Mid-week
West Cork
Organiser: Caroline Graham

AUTUMN LECTURES
Lecture: September Monday 21st
The ancient religion of the Island of Saints: Bishop Charles Graves of Limerick and the early Irish church
Speaker: Dr Catherine Swift

Lecture: October Monday 19th
Enemies within: the other siege of Limerick May-October 1651
Speaker: Dr Pádraig Lenihan

Lecture: November Monday 2nd
The Book of Kells
Speaker: Dr Donncha MacGabhann

Lecture: November Monday 16th
Hunter-gatherers in Ireland
Speaker: Professor Graeme Warren

AGM: December Monday 7th
Annual General Meeting and Social evening

2027
Lecture: January Monday 18th
Limerick in transition
Speaker: Dr Charlotte Murphy

PROGRAMME 2019

SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 28^th 2019
AWN Pugin and the Gothic Revival in Ireland
Canon Patrick Comerford

February Monday 18th
Who Do You Think We Are? The DNA Of Limerick City
Dr. Catherine Swift

March Monday 4th
Small Nucleated Settlements In Co. Limerick, 1840-1920
Dr. Gerard Curtin

March Monday 25^th
Museums as community resources
Tony Candon

April Monday 15^th
Last Letters Home: Recovering Thomond Voices from the American Civil War
Damian Shiels

AUTUMN LECTURES

September Monday 23^rd
Democratic Revolution? The First dail, 1919-1921
Dr Mel Farrell

October Monday 21st
Limerick’s fife and drum tradition
Dr. Derek Mulcahy

November Monday 4^th
Limerick’s Hurling And The 1930’s
Dr. Paul Rouse

November Monday 18th
Harvard Mission to Co. Clare
Dr. Mairead Carew

PROGRAMME 2020

SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 20^th
Postcards on social life of Limerick
Canon O’Malley

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