Talks and Visits, 2024 - 2025
Below is a list of activities organised by the Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society in 2024 and 2025.
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Talks and Visits, 2025 |
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15th January 2025 |
Talk by John Martin on: From rocky commons to fashionable suburb - the transformation of Dalkey in the 19th century |
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19th February 2025 |
Talk by Therese Hicks on: The Minute Books of Wicklow in the 1600 and 1700s |
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19th March 2025 |
AGM and presentation from Rosemary Raughter |
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16th April 2025 |
Talk by John McLoughlin on: Trees and Woodland Names in Irish Placenames |
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21st May 2025 |
Talk by Cormac Moore on: The Root of All Evil, The Irish Boundary Commission |
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29th June 2025 |
Visit to the Liberties in Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library |
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July - August 2025 |
No activities planned |
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19th-20th September 2025 |
The La Touche Legacy: The Emerging New Ireland |
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15th October 2025 |
Talk by Gregori Meakin on: The Kilcoole Gunrunning |
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19th November 2025 |
The Jim Smyth Memorial Talk: presentation by John Goodman on The Wicklow Dead in the First World War |
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4th December 2025 |
The Society's Christmas Lunch in Delgany Golf Club, 12.30pm for 1pm |
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Talks and Visits, 2024 |
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17th January 2024 |
Talk by Cormac Moore on: A History of Lemon’s Pure Sweets (click here to see some photographs) |
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21st February 2024 |
Talk by Stephen Ferguson on: Bessbrook to Ballinadee – The Post Office in Ireland |
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20th March 2024 |
AGM and a talk by Dr Michael Kennedy on: The Curry Houses of Dublin (click here to see some photographs) |
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17th April 2024 |
Talk by L McLoughlin on: Dublin City Archives (click here to see some photographs) |
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22nd May 2024 |
Visit to the Dublin City Archives |
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23rd June 2024 |
Visit to places of interest in Maynooth and Millmount Museum in Drogheda (click here to see some photographs) |
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21st July 2024 |
Visit to Battle of the Boyne Site |
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August 2024 |
No activities |
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20th - 21st September 2024 |
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16th October 2024 |
Talk by Rob Goodbody on: The Lead Mines – Ballycorus and Glendalough in the Nineteenth Century |
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20th November 2024 |
Talk by Cormac Moore on: The Life of Frank O’Connor – Pembroke Library’s First Librarian |
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5th December 2024 |
Christmas Lunch in Delgany Golf Club, 12.30pm for 1pm |