Spring Lecture Series 2025
Monday January 20th
From Skip to Attic to Academic Research: The R.D. O’Brien Papers, 1740-1920. Speaker: Dr Paul O’Brien
Sunday February 9th: Annual Lunch, Castletroy Park Hotel
Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen. Speaker: Professor Bernadette Whelan
Monday February 17th
The Mayors of Limerick since 1197. Speaker: Dr Matthew Potter
Monday March 3rd
Strong Farmers in West Limerick in the mid-nineteenth century. Speaker: Dr Gerard Curtin
Monday March 24th
A Viking Silver Hoard from Hurlers Cross, Co. Clare. Speaker: Dr John Sheehan
Monday April 28th
Running the Irish Colony: Limerick Castle and Irish politics in the earlier thirteenth century. Speaker: Dr Cathy Swift
SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 28th 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 25th
Museums as community resources
Tony Candon
April Monday 15th
Last Letters Home: Recovering Thomond Voices from the American Civil War
Damian Shiels
AUTUMN LECTURES
September Monday 23rd
Democratic Revolution? The First dail, 1919-1921
Dr Mel Farrell
October Monday 21st
Limerick’s fife and drum tradition
Dr. Derek Mulcahy
November Monday 4th
Limerick’s Hurling And The 1930’s
Dr. Paul Rouse
November Monday 18th
Harvard Mission to Co. Clare
Dr. Mairead Carew
SPRING LECTURES
January Monday 20th
Postcards on social life of Limerick
Canon O’Malley
