La Touche Legacy festival is launched
The launch of the La Touche Legacy and Festival of History was held on Monday evening at Greystones Golf Club.
The festival is held in association with the Greytones Archaeological and Historical Society.
The official launch on Monday evening included a talk by Professor Michaal Laffan, Emeritus Professor, UCC, who spoke about ‘WT Cosgrave’/
The La Touche Legacy Weekend and 4th Festival of History will take place on Friday and Saturday, September 29 and 30, with the theme ‘Creating a New State’.
On Friday, September 29, the official opening and welcome by George Jones, Chairman of the La Touche Legacy, will take place at 4 p.,m. along with a welcome by the Cathaoirligh of Greystones Municipal District and Wicklow County Council. There will also be an exhibition.
AT 4.15 p.m., it will be ‘Manufacturing consensus: polite society, policy and the Irish Convention’, with Dr Conor Mulvagh, UCD.
At 4.45 p.m. Professor Maurice Manning will discuss ‘Mak- ing a reality of independence: the first Free State Government’.
At 5.15 p.m. on the Friday, Dr Ida Milne of NUI Maynooth will talk about ‘ The Quiet Corner Back: Protestant Engagement with the GAA’/
On Saturday, September 30, Dr Mel Farrell will open proceedings with a talk at 10 a.m. entitled ‘Cumann na nGaedheal and the Legacy of Revolution’.
At 11 a.m., Dr Leanne Lane of DCU will talk about ‘Dorothy Macardle, Historian of the Irish Revolution’.
The Jim Brennan Memorial Lecture at 11.45 a.m. will be delivered by historian Joan Kavanagh, who will discuss ‘Glendalough - An Age Old Attraction’.
The seminar dinner will take place in Greystones Golf Club at 8 p.m. on the Saturday evening, with the guest speaker Dr Martin Mansergh. Dr Mansergh is a historian, former Minister of State and former senior advisor to successive Taoisigh.