Thanks Michael. http://www.thehistoryfestivalofireland.com/ is the website Events of Carlow interest (and apologies for the clashes). Saturday 15 June 12am Local History Presentations – Handling the Media and the Message – with Padraig Laffan (Federation of Local History Societies) and Pat O’Neill, (President of the Carlow Archaeological & Historical Society) 12am ‘The Bronze Age: Eire’s first gold rush 4, 000 years ago’ - with J.S. Dunne (chair & author of award-winning ‘Bending The Boyne’), Colm Moriarty (founder of irisharchaeology.ie) & Charles Mount (Bronze Age archaeologist) ponder a world of megaliths, carving and precious metals. 12am Mrs Duckett, evangelical Protestantism, social history and the Bethany Home – Niall Meehan. , head of Journalism & Media at Griffith College, Dublin, talks of the curious links between Duckett’s Grove & the Bethany Homes. 1:45pm Carlow in the War of Independence’ – Elaine Callinan History lecturer at Carlow College, presents a 30 minute paper on how Carlow fared during the War of Independence. 2.30pm The Duckett Family - American genealogist and Eustace family historian Ronald Eustice adds some colour to the story of those who built Duckett’s Grove, focusing on the impact of DNA. 2.45pm Carlow at War: Ireland in the 17th Century - Myles Dungan (chair & presenter of ‘The History Show’ on RTE Radio One), Micheál Ó Siochrú (Associate Professor of History at TCD), Eamon Darcy (author of ‘Pogroms, Politics and Print: The 1641 Depositions and contemporary print culture’) & Jane Ohlmeyer (Professor of Modern History at TCD) examine the implications of maps, massacres and a fallen aristocracy in the wake of Cromwell’s conquest. Sunday 16 June 1pm Carloviana IV - A look at four famous Carlovians with Jimmy O’Toole (author of The Carlow Gentry, on a fair lady tbc), Norm MacMillan (on the eminent scientist John Tyndall), Pat O’Neill (President of the Carlow Archaeological & Historical Society, on the encyclopaedia founder Peter Fenelon Collier) & Marc-Ivan O’Gorman (the Taylorfest director, on Carlow artist Frank O’Meara). 4pm The Slashing Parson of 1798 – The Life & Death of Robert Rochfort – A talk by Shay Kinsella, diarist for the online history magazine, ‘Scoláire Staire’. On 29 May 2013, at 06:50, Michael Brennan wrote: > Please feel free to post your own messages, updates or images on the History > Festival Facebook page as you wish, and we will ‘share’ or 'tweet' where we > can. > https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-History-Festival-of-Ireland/298089060237150?ref=hl > > It’s all about getting the word out and about so that we have a full house > on the weekend itself. > > If you have an opportunity to give the History Festival a plug on any radio, > TV, websites, blogs or other mediums you work with, it would of course be > much appreciated. > > This message originally came from Turtle Bunbury. > > Regards > Michael Brennan > County Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message