La Touche Legacy
In association with
Greystones Archaeological
and Historical Society
Greystones Golf Club, Greystones
Friday September 25th – Sunday September 27th 2015
2nd Festival of History:
‘Reflections on the Great War
& the Easter Rising 1916’
Friday 25th September:
16.00 p.m. Official Welcome
16.15 p.m. ‘Wartime Diaries of Elsie Henry covering 1916 & World War 1’
17.00 p.m. ‘WW1 Soldier James Lawless, ‘Knockrath’, Church Lane’
17.30 p.m. ‘That Easter Dawn: The Personalities of 1916’
Mr Turtle Bunbury
18.30 p.m. ‘Launch of Volume 8 of the GAHS Journal’
Mr Turtle Bunbury
Saturday 26th September:
10.00 a.m. ‘Letters of 1916’
11.00 a.m. ‘The 36th Ulster Division’
11.45 a.m. ‘The Psychology of the Fighting Irish’
Mr John O'Keeffe
12.30 p.m. ‘Propaganda During WW1’
Mr Ian Kenneally
20.00 p.m. Seminar Dinner in Greystones Golf Club
Guest Speaker Mr John Bruton Former Taoiseach
Sunday 27th September:
11.00 a.m. Jim Brennan Memorial Lecture
‘The La Touche Soldiers’
Mr Michael McGinley
Ticket prices
All Lectures, Tea/Coffee: €30
All Lectures, Tea/Coffee and Seminar Dinner: €50
Phone 01 287 8448 to book a place.