2013 Winter Solstice

From South Kilkenny Historical Society:

Winter Solstice at Knockroe
Saturday, December 21st
Meeting point and time - Owning Church at 2.30pm.
All welcome

From Our Neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society

South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture

Thursday, April 25th 2013
Topic: John Kennedy's Irish Legacy - how JFK's visit and his presidency helped change Ireland.
Speaker: Mr Noel Whelan
Venue: The Emigrant Centre, New Ross (note change of venue for this lecture)
Time: 8pm
Admission: €5 (members free)

There will also be a presentation, by Mr Patrick Grennan of the Kennedy Homestead, Dunganstown, on the Kennedys' of Dunganstown and America.

In times of crisis the eyes of the world are fixed upon 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This is the White House the seat of important councils and the place where one man must make momentous decisions that can affect the lives of people everywhere (The White House - An Historic Guide). For four days in 1963, from June 26th to 29th, the eyes of the world moved from the White House to Ireland and in particular to New Ross, the ancestral home of that man - The President of the United States of America.

From Our Neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture

South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture

Title: Women in the era of the American Civil War and the Irish connection.
Speaker: Mr Aidan O'Hara
Date: Thursday, April 4th 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church)
Admission: €5 (members free)

AIDAN O'HARA
Donegal-born broadcaster and writer, Aidan O'Hara, has worked as a presenter and producer with RTÉ and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), and now lives in County Longford.  He has taught Media Studies and Communications at the Communications Centre, Booterstown, Dublin City University, and the Tallaght Institute of Technology. Through his company, Ashton Media Services, he has taught Communication skills to school leavers, business executives, politicians and church leaders. Today, Aidan is engaged in writing full-time, but stays in touch with broadcasting through occasional contributions to Radio Telefís Éireann and Raidió na Gaeltachta.

From Our Neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society : The GAA Oral History Project

South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture

Title:The GAA Oral History Project

Speaker: Ms Regina Fitzpatrick

Date: Thursday, January 31st 2013

Venue: Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church)

Time: 8pm

Admission: €5 (members free)

The GAA History Project is a record of interviews with hundreds of people, including GAA members and supporters, current and former players, managers, officials and administrators. The interviews, which formed part of the GAA's 125th anniversary celebrations, record personal experiences of the GAA, e.g. earliest memories, playing matches, travelling to matches, watching matches, supporting teams (club and county), club life, changes in the game, involvement at club and county level, the GAA abroad, Scór, the Irish language, politics, religion etc.

Regina Fitzpatrick is a native of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny and a consultant oral historian. She worked as a full-time oral historian on the GAA Oral History Project (2008-2012) and has carried out oral history interviewing, consultancy and training for both local authorities and heritage organisations including the Maze Long Kesh ‘Unlocking Heritage’ Project and St Michael’s Regeneration Board, Dublin.
Regina holds a BA in History and Irish from UCD and an MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management, also from UCD and is currently undertaking doctoral studies at De Montfort University, Leicester.
With Dónal McAnallan and Paul Rouse, Regina co-edited 'The first fifty years of camogie', which was published in 2009 and is currently a director and chairperson of The Oral History Network of Ireland

Winter Solstice - South Kilkenny Historical Society

It's still time!

If you want to get to a megalithic tomb for the winter solstice, you can join South Kilkenny Historical Society at Knockroe (Sunset) 2012
Friday, December 21st
Meeting point and time: Owning Church car park, 2pm.
Remember the footwear - wellies in preference to high heels!

From Our Neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society

South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture

Title: New research into the mountain and island pilgrimages of Croagh Patrick and Skellig Michael
Speaker: Michael Gibbons
Date: Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church)

Admission: €5 (members free)

From Our Neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society

South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture, Thursday, September 27th, 8pm

Title: From Morse Code to Twitter
Speaker: Mr Padraig Laffan
Venue: Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church)
Admission: €5 (members free)

This lecture traces the development of communications during Padraig 's working career - first as a ship's Radio Officer, followed by 40 years with RTE's  outside broadcasting unit.

From our neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society Lecture

South Kilkenny Historical Society Lecture

'One of the last survivors of the Holocaust tells a tale'

Speaker: Mr Zoltan Zinn-Collis, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Date: Thursday, March 29th

Time: 8pm

Venue: The Rising Sun, Mullinavat (please note the change of venue for this lecture)

Admission: €5 (members and students, with adequate adult supervision, free).

From Our Neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society :Lecture on Knockroe Passage Tomb

South Kilkenny Historical Society Lecture

Title: Knockroe passage tomb and the mysterious Stone Age of south Kilkenny

Speaker: Muiris O’Suilleabhan, Associate Professor, School of Archaeology, U.C.D.

Date: Thursday, November 24th

Time: 8pm

Venue: Mullinavat parish hall (opposite church).

Admission: €5 (members free)

Knockroe passage tomb, known locally as “The Caiseal”, is situated beside the Lingaun river at the south-western edge of County Kilkenny and is considered an archaeological site of national importance. Prior to the 1980s little was known about the site but in recent years it has come further into the limelight with a programme of excavation between 1990-1995, by the speaker (Dr O Suilleabhan).

From our neighbour: South Kilkenny Historical Society

South Kilkenny Historical Society  


Lecture

Date: Thursday, September 29th

Topic: The Ormonde Slate Quarries - 1820 to 1838

Speaker: Mr Richard Hyland

Venue: Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church)

Time: 8pm

Admission: €5 (society members free).