Heritage Week will be celebrated differently

HERITAGE Week starts this Saturday, August 15, and runs until Sunday, August 23.

While the traditional activities of walks, talks, guided tours will not take place this year to the C-19 pandemic the Bray Cualann Historical Society, the local history society for Bray and North Wicklow is holding a special on-line presentation from this Saturday to Sunday, August 23, in which the history of nine buildings in the town, one per day, will be featured on the Society’s Facebook page on a daily basis.

The series will feature the harbour area including Martello Terrace; Cliff Walk Lodge and coast guard station; Bray National School Seapoint Road; the cross on Bray Head; Bray Presbyterian Church; Bray Methodist Church & Epworth Hall; The Dr Thompson Memorial; Bray Bridge and People’s Park, and Bray War Memorial.

At the end of the week, Bray Town Hall will feature as a bonus profile. A little further north, Rathmichael Historical Society will hold a Summer Evening Lecture Series ‘Discovering our History’ consisting of five lectures on aspects of our past – one lecture on each evening of National Heritage Week i.e. Monday August 17 to Friday August 22.

The lectures will be delivered online via Zoom at 8 p.m. each night by experts in their fields.

The programme is as follows - Monday, August 17: ‘Dronehenge: the Discovery of a Giant Late Neolithic Monument near Newgrange’ by Anthony Murphy; Tuesday, August 18: ‘Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses’ by Roger Stalley; Wednesday August 19: The Leo Swan Memorial Lecture - Glendalough: the Best Preserved Early Monastery in the World’ by Chris Corlett; Thursday August 20: ‘Carriglea House: Witness to History’ by David Doyle; Friday August 21: ‘Uncovering the Historic Port: the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project’ by Niall Brady.

Email info@rathmichaelhistoricalsociety.ie for the Zoom link.