Winter / Spring Programme 2015

WATERFORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

WINTER/SPRING LECTURE PROGRAMME 2015

All talks will take place in St Patrick's Gateway Centre, Patrick Street 

Friday 30^th January      Speaker: Ms Anne-Marie Ryan.

                                      Topic: 16 Dead Men, The Easter Rising Executions.

                                      This lecture will look at the lives of the executed leaders of the 1916 rising.

Friday 27^th February    Speaker: Mr Sonny Condon

                                      Topic: The SS Portláirge

                                      A look back over the 75 years’ service of The SS Portláirge to the port of Waterford.

Friday 27^th March        Speaker: Mr Cian Manning.

                                      Topic: A Gentle Borough? – A History of the MP’s of Waterford City, 1801 - 1922

                                      This lecture will take a look at some of the notable figures and characters to have represented Waterford City at Westminster.

Thursday 9^th April       Annual General Meeting – Details beforehand.

Friday 24^th April           Speaker: Mr David Robson.

                                      Topic: The making of ‘Barry Lyndon’

                                      A look back at the making of the film Barry Lyndon directed by the maverick Stanley Kubrick and starring Ryan O’Neal, when Hollywood came to Waterford.

Friday 22^nd May           Speaker: Mr Brian Havel.

                                      Topic: The life of Miroslav Havel, the first employee and chief designer of Waterford Crystal.