Upcoming Lecture: The S.S. Portláirge

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

Built in 1907 in Dublin, the steam vessel dredged  the port of Waterford for over 70 years,

Lecturer: Sonny Condon

Date: Friday 27th February 2015

Time: 8 pm

Venue: St Patrick's Gateway Centre, St Patrick Church (Patrick Street)

Entrance €5.00 (members free) 

NEW! Tea and biscuits will be served after the lecture

16 Dead Men, a Lecture by Ms Anne-Marie Ryan

A talented stone carver, a student of the Irish language, a silk weaver, a clerk born in the tenements in Dublin,  a newspaper editor... young men who didn't seem to have much in common, yet they all died for the same cause, executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916.
Anne-Marie Ryan's lecture focused on lesser known leaders of the events, on their personal circumstances and how they became involved.

Anne-Marie Ryan's book is published by Mercier Press

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.

                                     

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Looking back to 2014, and the last events of the year, starting with Julian Walton's lecture Walking into War, on Friday 28th November 2014.

The society's annual lunch on Sunday 30th of December 2014 in The Granville Hotel was well attended, with a short lecture afterwards by committee member Bill Walsh on That Amazing  Woman's Flying Machine. 

Waterford City & County Manager Michael Walsh, being presented a copy of Decies
 by Chairperson Erica Fay, and Hon Editor Donnchadh Ó Ceallachain.

Chairperson Erica Fay with a bell donated by PRO Michael Maher,
The bell was originally offered by the late Seamus Reale, cousin of Micheal's,
following a request for a Chairman's Bell by the late Kevin P Hall when he was elected last April,
The bell will be engraved with both their names.
l to r: Michael Maher, Erica Fay, Simon Hall

Sharing memories, Simon Hall and Ann Cusack

Members of the Condon family

The Upton family

Catherine & Tom Pettit, Ann Gunning

Oliver Manning, Cian Manning, Raymond Murphy.

Erica Fay, WAHS  and Pat Nolan from the Kilkenny Archaeological Sociaty

Bill Walsh during his lecture 

We are now looking forward to a whole new year of activities! 

October Lecture: the Ogham in 3D Project by Dr Nora White

On Friday 30th October, Dr Nora White from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) gave us an overview of ogham stones, in general, and of the Ogham in 3D project in particular.

This is quite an interesting project aimed at safegarding for future studies -and for future generations- these amazing witnesses of the past before they incur more damage from natural erosion.
You can click on the links above to visit the Ogham in 3D website, which is fully searchable - you might find there are some stones in your area! and interact with the 3D model, that is, if the stone has already been scanned.

Making full use of new technology: a 3D 'print' of a scanned ogham stone. 

October Lecture : Ogham Stones of County Waterford

October Lecture : Ogham Stones of County Waterford 

Lecturer: Dr Nora White

Time & Venue: 8 pm, Edmund Rice Heritage & conference Centre, Barrack Street.

Admission: non members €5.00, members free. 

The lecture will include an update on recent conservation work and 3D scanning of the ogham stones. 

We hope this lecture to be a precursor to a summer outing to Seskinan medieval church, where the builders of the time incorporated some ogham stones in the fabric of the church. 

2014 Autumn Lectures Programme

AUTUMN 2014 LECTURES

Friday 26th September 

                 Speaker: Dr Pat McCarthy

                  Topic: 1914: Waterford and the coming of war - this lecture will look at Waterford in 1914 with the coming of the First World War.

Friday 31st October 

               Speaker: Dr Nora White

               Topic: Ogham Stones of County Waterford - This lecture will  include an update on recent conservation work and 3D scanning of the ogham stones. It is hoped that this lecture will be precursor to a summer outing in 2015 to Seskinan medieval church, where some of the local ogham stones were built into the fabric of the church by the medieval builders. 

Friday 28th November

             Speaker: Mr Julian Walton   

             Topic: 1914, Sleepwalking into war.  This lecture will coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.