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Genealogy Summer School

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:05:00 +0100

This genealogy summer school offers a complete course in the latest Irish genealogy research, as one would expect from a summer school held in UCC, one of the world’s leading universities.

All aspects of the subject are covered by a series of presentations and ‘hands on’ workshops given by a selection of Ireland’s leading genealogical lecturers and experts. The panel includes Ken Nicholls, Dr Paul MacCotter, Brian Donovan & Fiona Fitzsimons (Eneclann), Eileen & Sean O’Dúill, Dr David Butler, Dr Ciara Breathnach, Nicola Morris, Dr Matthew Potter, Dave Enright, Lorna Moloney

Genealogy sources, and approaches are described and explained in presentations which will be of great interest to the seeker of Irish roots and family history. It is suitable for genealogy enthusiasts and those wishing to undertake continued professional development in genealogy.

Thankfully, it is not all work. A number of trips are offered featuring sites and locations including Fota House, the Queenstown Experience in Cobh, and Spectacular Killarney with its beautiful mountains and lakes. Not forgetting, optional evening tours to sites of interest in Cork itself, ‘the Venice of Ireland’, Blarney Castle and the beautiful harbour town of Kinsale.

The Summer School Ancestral Connections will be completed by a one-day conference offered by the Cork Archaeological & Historical Society; founded in 1891, the society is one of the oldest local interest societies in Ireland.

Full Programme available to view at Ancestral Connections: Names, Places & Spaces 30 June - 6 July at UCC Cork.

Summer School Rates

Rates – Residential/Non-Residential/Concession

Full residential: Accommodation, Full board at Victoria Lodge, tuition, fieldtrips, excursions and conference: €775.00

Non residential: €575.00 (A list of recommended providers can be provided on request)

Concession - Residential - (Historical & cultural groups, students, Over 55's) non residential €658.75

Concession - Non Residential (Historical & cultural groups, students, Over 55's, retired) non residential €488.75

Day rates - €95.00

Day rates concession rate - € 80.75 (Historical & cultural groups, students, Over 55's)

Concessions*- Historical & cultural groups, students, Over 55s.

Online Booking at: http://www.ucc.ie/en/ace-genealogy/

Booking & contact UCC: SUMMER SCHOOL CO-ORDINATOR : LORNA MOLONEY 085-8721184

Ancestral Connections Summer School Co-ordinator: Lorna Moloney at E: l.moloney@ucc.ie or 353-(0)85-8721184 or

Lindy Meldon, Executive Assistant. Programme Assistant T: 353 (0)21 4904700. E: l.meldon@ucc.ie

Galway Garden Festival

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:49:00 +0100

Date: 6th & 7th July
Location: Claregalway, Co Galway

Galway Garden Festival will be held in Claregalway Castle. Nursery suppliers from across Ireland will share a wealth of planting experience with all who browse the plant stalls’ extensive range of plants, trees, seeds, and shrubs. Garden equipment, from hoes to glasshouses to woven willow baskets. Celebrated gardeners will provide advice and the work of organisations such as Bóthar, The Beekeepers Federation, and The Organic Centre, Co Leitrim, can be appreciated at the stands in the castle grounds.

All Details are on http://www.galwaygardenfestival.com/

Walking Tour of Lime Work in Kilkenny City (Building Limes Forum Ireland)

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:35:00 +0100

Date: 15th June
Location: Kilkenny City-
Cost: Free to members of Building Limes Forum Ireland/ €10 non-members
Time: 10:30-16:30

Meet in Dunnes Stores car park on John’s Bridge along by the river, at the entrance to Dunnes from the car park, at 10.30am.

Refreshments:Lunch own purchase @ a café in Kilkenny.

Booking is essential. Please contact: Deirdre at info@blfi.ne t or Katriona Byrne at 087-2538753.

The current itinerary (with approximate times) is as follows:

•Evan’s Home, off John Street 11.00

•St Mary’s Hall, Mary’s Lane 12.00

•LUNCH 13.00

•Courthouse, Parliament Street 14.00

•Rothe House, Parliament Street 15.00

•St Canice’s Steps, off Vicar Street 15.30

Other impromptu stops may happen along the way!

We will get access to sites not normally accessible to the public, seeing two projects before they have started and two projects recently completed. Topics will include pointing, hot lime, removing later interventions etc. At each stop there will be a discussion lead by key people involved in the project. They have been asked to focus on the issues and challenges of each site.

Walking shoes and raincoat are recommended.

Robert Boyle Summer School

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:17:00 +0100

Date: 6th & 7th July
Location: Lismore, Co Waterford

Robert Boyle (1627 – 1691) was born in Lismore Castle and was perhaps the most influential scientist of his day and the most respected of the founding members of the Royal Society of London.

The Robert Boyle Summer School will run this summer from the 4th -7th July 2013 at his birthplace, Lismore Heritage Town, Co Waterford. Boyle believed that the "new experimental philosophy" (science) could and should be of great benefit to mankind. He published, 350 years ago this year, "On the Usefulness of Natural Experimental Philosophy" and reflecting on this we will consider the contribution of science to mankind then and now and have Professor Liam Dolan of Oxford University talking about developments in understanding of plants and Professor Rose Ann Kenny TCD talking about human ageing.

The event will feature world-leading scientists and historians gathering together to discuss a wide range of topics relating to Boyle, his works and times and his legacy including Dr Anna-Marie Roos of the University of Lincon, Professor Bill Eaton of Georgia Southern University and Peter Elmer of the University of Exeter.

For all the details See www.robertboyle.ie

Landed Estates and Irish Society

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:09:00 +0100

Date: 13 - 14 June 2013

Location: Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Thursday 13 June

2.15. William Smyth (Professor Emeritus, UCC), ‘Landlordism,

Evictions and the Great Famine’

Chair: James Harrold (Arts Officer, Galway City)

3.45. Singular figures of landed background

Pauline Scott (NUI Galway), 'Agent, tenant, advocate & agitator:

Michael Kelly & the Burke & Pollok estates'

Leo Keohane (NUI Galway), ‘“Quare folk”: the Whites of Whitehall’

Madeline O’Neill (NUI Galway), ‘Senator Colonel Maurice Moore

of Moore Hall'

Chair: Gerard Moran (NUI Maynooth)

7.00. Reception marking Patrick Melvin’s Estates and landed

society in Galway (Dublin: de Búrca, 2012). Speaker: Tadhg

Foley.

Introduced by Marie Mannion (Heritage Officer, Co. Galway)

8 pm. Philip Bull (Visiting Fellow, An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth

& La Trobe University, Melbourne)

'A nineteenth-century Irish estate: New records for the history of

Irish landed estates'

Chair: Noel Wilkins (President Galway Arch. & Hist. Society)

Friday 14 June

10.00. Texts, cultures and contexts: new scholarship.

Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) ‘Squires and Solicitors: an

important relationship in 19th century Ireland’

Conor Montague (NUI Galway), 'The Light of Evening, Lissadell’

Laura Vickers (NUI Galway) '“A well abused set of men”: The land

agent in nineteenth century Ireland’

Chair: John Cunningham (NUI Galway)

2.00. Accessing the estate record.

Marie Boran (NUI Galway), ‘"Can you help me to find out?” The

Landed Estates database, five years on’

Brigid Clesham (NUI Galway), 'Solicitors' Collections - an

unrecognised source?'

Chair: Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway)

3.00. Class, gender and landed society

Adrian Grant (NUI Galway) ‘Using landed estate records to better

understand the rural Irish worker: some findings from the estates

of Connacht and Ulster.’

Maeve O'Riordan (UCC) 'The social and cultural world of women

of the Munster landed class, 1860-1914’

Chair: Laurence Marley (NUI Galway)

4.30. Olwyn Purdue (Queen's, Belfast), '"The price of our loyalty":

the Northern Ireland Land Act of 1925'

5.15 Closing remarks from Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)

Conference organisers: Marie Boran; John Cunningham; Joanne McEntee

Registration free; inquiries to john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

* Event supported by HEA under PRTLI Cycle 4 *

Lunchtime Lectures in association with Friends of Medieval Dublin and Dublin City Council

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:00:00 +0100

Milestones of Medieval Dublin

A Series of Monthly Lunchtime Lectures at the Wood Quay Venue by the Friends of Medieval Dublin and Dublin City Council

c.790–800: The First Dublin Vikings? ~ Speaker: Linzi Simpson

Date: 11th June, 1.05–2.00pm

c.995: Dublin's first coinage ~ Speaker: Andy Woods

Date: 16th July, 1.05–1.45pm

1204–29: The Construction of Dublin Castle ~ Speaker: Con Manning

Date: 13th August, 1.05–1.45pm

1315: The Bruce Invasion ~ Speaker: J.R.S. Philips

Date: 10th September, 1.05–1.45pm

1349: The Black Death ~ Speaker: Gillian Kenny

Date: 8th October, 1.05–1.45pm

1487: The Coronation of Lambert Simnel ~ Speaker: Sparky Booker

Date:12th November, 1.05–1.45pm

1534: Silken Thomas and the Siege of Dublin ~ Speaker: Steven Ellis

Date:10th December, 1.05–1.45pm

ADMISSION FREE: ALL WELCOME

For further information contact the Friend of Medieval Dublin

Email: secretary.fmd@gmail.com or check http://friendsofmedievaldublin.wordpress.com/ for details

Lunchtime Lecture Series at Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8

Carlow History Festival

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0100

Date: 15th & 16th June
Location: Duckett's Grove, Carlow

Carlow History Festival takes place at Duckett's Grove.

Fifty leading historians and thinkers from Ireland, the UK and the USA will contribute to a dazzling array of over 30 debates, discussions, readings and interviews. Confronting subjects from a Bronze Age gold rush to the 1970s, the History Festival will consistently tease, confound, resolve and inspire.

http://www.thehistoryfestivalofireland.com/?page_id=2

Third Annual Famine Conference

Thu, 30 May 2013 16:46:00 +0100

Date: 19th & 20th July
Location: Strokestown Park, Co Roscommon
Cost: €25 including lunch

The Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates will be holding the Third Annual International Famine Conference will be held at Strokestown Park House on the 19-20 July 2013. The theme of the conference is 'The Famine Irish: emigration and new lives' and is sure to be a stimulating and informative two days.

Download the Booking Form
All enquiries should be sent to info@strokestownpark.ie
or telephone 0719633013.

Conference "Power, Prayer & Public Archaeology"

Thu, 30 May 2013 16:17:00 +0100

Location: Knightsbrook Hotel, Trim, Co MeathDate: 2 & 3rd JulyCost: €45A conference in celebration of 750 years since the foundation of the Black Friary.The conference aims to explore the archaeology and material culture of Religious Houses in late medieval Europe, through innovative approaches to new stories.Through interdisciplinary approaches, we want to address how the introduction of continental monastic orders impacted locally on social order, material culture, economy, burial practice, and the role of men, women and children.Themes will include European-wide research, Ireland-focused studies, architectural style and technologies and a focus on the Black Friary Dominican site in Trim Co. Meath as a case study. The latter will include papers on community and public archaeology, an integral part of the Black Friary Archaeology Project.

The need for this conference arises, for us, from the work being carried out at the Black Friary Community Archaeology Project. This project is centered on the late medieval site of the Dominican Black Friary in Trim. The Friary, established in 1263, was the third friary established in Trim but was situated outside the town wall, on the north-east side of the town. The friary was in use for over 400 years, but following the Dissolution, it fell into disrepair, disuse, and was eventually sold off for stone. There is some documentary evidence that tells us when it was established, and by whom (Geoffrey de Geneville), and that it was in important site, hosting a number of significant historical events but beyond that we know very little about the site, the friars that lived there, and what role the friary played in on the town.

Geoffrey De Geneville, Seigneur of Vaucouleurs, married Maud or Matilda de Lacy in 1252. Matilda had inherited, from her grandfather Hugh de Lacy, vast estates and lordships in Ireland, Herefordshire, and the Welsh Marches. Henry III granted Geoffrey and Maud, and their heirs rights in the land of Meath held by her grandfather, by charter dated 8th August 1252.

The conference will be held in the medieval town of Trim, Co. Meath, home to the largest Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland, and situated on the banks of the River Boyne.

http://powerprayerpublicarchaeology.wordpress.com/

OPW Tara Lecture Series

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:35:00 +0100

Wednesday July 3rd
To 3:D or not to 3:D? that is the question
A look at the results of 3D laser scanning of archaeological monuments in County Offaly

Caimin O'Brien, Archaeological Survey of Ireland

Wednesday July 10th
Rock art writ large?

Archaeological investigations at the Hill of Ward, Athboy, County Meath

Dr Stephen Davis, UCD School of Archaeology

Wednesday July 17th
3:D - ICONS Digitally recording the monuments of Ireland

Anthony Corns, The Discovery Programme

Wednesday July 24th
Ogham in 3:D, Digitising Ireland's ogham stones

Dr Nora White, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies