Fascinating range of talks at history seminar weekend
THE 30th La Touche Legacy and Fifth Festival of History will take place on Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22.
The festival, held in association with Greystones Archaeological and Historical Society, will be held at Greystones Golf Club.
The festival will be officially opened at 4 p.m. on the Friday by George Jones, Cllr Nicola Lawless, cathaoirleach of Greystones Municipal District, and Cllr Pat Vance, cathoairleach of Wicklow County Council. Guests will be entertained by a dramatic and musical presentation by students from St Kevin’s NS.
At 4.15 p.m., author Roseamary Cullen Owens will give a talk on ‘Women’s suffrage will, I believe, be the ruin of our Western civilization: Irishwomen’s campaign for the parliamentary vote, 1908-1922’. At 4.45 p.m., there will be a talk on‘ The Enemy Within – the Spanish Flu in County Wicklow, 1918-19’ by Noel Campbell of the National Museum of Ireland.
Dr Martin O’Donoghue of NUI Galway will speak at 5.15 p.m. when deliver his lecture on ‘ The only dispute we had was on methods: Images and Idea of the Irish Party in the Irish Free State’.
Events begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 22, with ‘Steel behind the laugh: Dublin Opinion – 1922-1968’ by historian Felix Larkin.
At 11 a.m., RTE’s David McCullagh will deliver a talk on ‘ The Era of Eamon deValera’. Liz Goldthorpe will present the Jim Brennan Memorial Lecture at 11.45 a.m. and about ‘A fairway to heaven: Averill Deverell of Greystones and King’s Inns’.
The seminar dinner will take place in Greystones Golf Club at 8 p.m. where Minister for Health Simon Harris will be the guest speaker.
Bookings for the two days of lectures and dinner can be made by contacting Kay Coughlan on 01 2876694.