Only three weeks to go …. Heritage Week will take place from 17-25 August 2019 and in keeping with this year’s theme of Pastimes|Past Times ,we’re encouraging everyone to take a stroll through history and discover how our pastimes today have been shaped by hundreds of years of storytelling, craft ,sport ,music and more. For …
June 2019 Forthcoming events….. Trip to Galway on Saturday 15 June by train Departing Tullamore at 8.30 a.m and returning from Galway on the 17.20 p.m.There is also the 18.10 p.m.Our guide is the Galway history expert Peadar O’Dowd. We intend to visit Eyre Square , St NIcholas’s Church the cathedral of 1965,the Galway Museum,the …
Following our AGM at 7.30pm, join Suzanne Behan, author of the best-selling The 50 Francis Street Photographer for an illustrated lecture about her grandfather’s photography studio in the Liberties, Dublin. From the 1950s to the 1990s, John Walsh ran his photography business out of a small shop on 50 Francis Street in inner city Dublin. For over forty years, …