Previous recent Lectures, Talks and other activities
2023 Lectures – ongoing
Monday 27th February – A History of Food by Prof. Mike Gibney see Link
2022 Lectures
December Talk moved to February 2023 due to weather issue.
Thursday 10th November – The Three Good Fridays by Bill Morrison see Link
Monday 10th October – Seapoint Boat Club by Vincent Delany see Link
Thursday 8th September – The Social History of the Civil War in Ireland by Valerie Cox
Thursday 9th June – The 1941 Bombing of North Strand in Dublin by Padraig Laffan (postponed from 12th May)
Monday 4th April – Joyce, His Literary Contemporaries, and the Early Reception of Ulysses by Professor Brian Cosgrave
2020 Lectures – programme aborted abruptly due to CoVid19 pandemic
Saturday 11th January – Launch of Proceedings 2019 by Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, Minister of State for Higher Education – See Report and Gallery
Monday 27th January The Life and Verses of Robert Service – 1874 to 1958 by Denis Gill Historian
Thurs 27th February – An Englishman, the Kerry Air & a Newspaper Love Affair by Gerry O’Regan
All subsequent activities cancelled due to the CoVid19 pandemic.
Previous 2019 Lectures, Talks and other activities
Saturday 12th January – Launch of Proceedings 2018
Thursday 31st January ‘A Vision for Today – The Rebuilding of Dublin After 1916’ by architect Robin Mandal
Monday 25th February ‘Blackrock and the Surrounding Areas in The Great War’ by Conor Dodd
Monday 25th March ‘How Safe Is Flying?’ by Captain Ted McCourt
Monday 29th April ‘Waterford Merchants and their Families and Descendants in the Port Cities of France and Spain 1600-1800’ by Liam Murphy
Thursday 30th May ‘The Metals – from Dalkey to Dún Laoghaire’ by Rob Goodbody
Thursday 12th September Creative Writing: Excavating Your Memory for Inspiration by Justine Carbery – Writer, Teacher and Journalist
Monday 7th October Queen Victoria – Her Life and Times by Frank Woods – Local Historian
Thursday 7th November The Light that Failed: The Dundrum Rail Car Collision by James Scannell
Monday 2nd December – Famous People I Nearly Met –Some Faded Highlights from my Career in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations by Niall Henry Bracken