
Meath Archaeological and Historical Society
Programme of Events - 2023
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12th
“Drogheda Grammar School, 1659-2019”
John McCullen
Venue: Drogheda Grammar School- 3pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29th
Launch of Ríocht na Midhe 2023
by Dr Geraldine Stout (Patron)
followed by lecture –“A Short History of the
Irish Land Commission and why its Archives should be opened to the Research Public.”
Prof. Terence Dooley (Maynooth University)
Venue: Ardboyne Hotel, Navan - 7.30pm
Reception and book fair – members
and guests: 6.30-7.30pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26th
Annual General Meeting
followed by lecture -
"Funerals and politics: the legacy of Yoùng Ireland 1854-1907" - pointing to the continuing divide between physical force men and constitutionalists. Willie Nolan, historical geographer and publisher of the history and society county series, has kindly agreed to give a talk based on aspects of his research for a forthcoming 2 volume publication on Young Ireland and the Fenians.
Venue: Navan Library - 7pm
SUNDAY, MAY 14th
Séamus Mac Gabhann Lecture
“Five thousand years of settlement
at Moynagh Lough near Nobber”
Dr Michael Potterton (Maynooth University)
Venue: George Eogan Centre, Nobber - 3pm
SUNDAY, JUNE 18th Event Postponed to a later date.
“30 Years of the Discovery Programme
at Tara”
Dr Edel Bhreathnach, Conor Newman,
Roseanne Schot and Joe Fenwick
Venue: St Columban's College, Dalgan Park,
Navan - 3pm
SATURDAY, JUNE 24th
Annual excursion: details to be announced.
Organiser: Fiona Ahern (087-9738763)
SUNDAY, JULY 30th
“The Irish Annals and Irish Oaks - what can they tell us about our Climate and its Impact on History?"
Dr Francis Ludlow (TCD)
Venue: Columbanus Hall, Navan - 3pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
“The Road to Kells - Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3, Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project”
Jerry O'Sullivan (TII)
Venue: Kells Courthouse Tourism and Cultural Hub - 7.30pm
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14th
Seminar - “50 Years of the Northern Ireland Peace Process - A Retrospective”
Sessions on “The Sunningdale Agreement - 50th Anniversary”, Seán Donlon (former Sec-General, DFA), followed by “The Good Friday Agreement (25th Anniversary)” and “The Meath Peace Group (30th Anniversary)”. Speakers and detailed programme to be announced.
Venue: St Columban's College, Dalgan Park - 2pm-5.30pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8th
“Cricket in South Meath, 1860-1950”
Adam Burke
Venue: Oak Centre, Church of Ireland, Dunboyne - 7.30pm
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3rd
George Eogan Memorial Lecture
“Excavations at the French Cistercian Grange of Beaubec, Co. Meath”
Dr Geraldine Stout (Patron)
Venue: Boyne Valley Hotel, Drogheda - 3pm
Contact: Tom French, Hon. Sec. – 087 4119633
Voluntary contributions are accepted at lectures and outings
Contents
- George Francis Eogan: a retrospective by Geraldine Stout.
- An Elizabethan McCabe? by Brian McCabe.
- Navan: the Earl of Essex, Baroness de Ros and the Crown lands in the early 19th century by Timothy O'Neill.
- Newsnotworthrelating: the hanging of Walter Evers, 10 June 1642 by Joseph Byrne.
- Westmeat News: Gleanings from The Standard & River Plate News, Buenos Aires, 1870-76 by Edward Walsh.
- Kate Magee of Kilmainhamwood: mother of a Tasmanian political dynasty by Danny Cusack.
- Selling Bicycles in Meath in the late Victorian and Edwardian Era by Brian Griffin.
- St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Irish language revival effort and the Meath-men who made their mark by Tracey Ní Mhaonaigh.
- Virginia Road Railway (1863 - 1963) - a Social History by John Smith.
- Emper: A Westmeath Rural Parish and its People in 1901 by Seán Byrne.
- A shooting and hostage taking in a time of Truce and Treaty by Noel French.
- The files of the Special Infantry Corp and Meath, 1923 by John Connolly.
- 'Back to the Land': agrarian agitation and activism for land redistribution in County Meath, 1918 - 1923 by Aidan Gilsenan.
- A Look Back at Royal Meath - Donnchadh Ó Meachair's Short History of Meath by Frank Cogan.
Book Rieviews
Reviewer | Author and Book Title |
Una Palcic | Aidan Clarke, 1641 Depositions, Volume V, Kildare & Meath |
Tom French | Navan and District Historical Society, Navan Its People and Its Past |
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald | Miles Dungan, Four Killings, Land Hunger, Murder and Family in the Irish Revolution |
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald | Jim O'Leary, The Robinstown Affair: A War of Independence Story |
Frank Cogan | Fiona Murray and Eda Saggara, The Men and Women of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Delegations 1921 |
John Bruton | Peter Connell (in association with Mary Hayes), Eamon Duggan, Counsel to the Revolution |
Joe Mooney | Charles M. Carletta, For the Grass of a Cow: Marion Tiernan's Irish Ancestors from Co. Meath to St Lawrence County, New York 1820 - 1999 |
Joe Mooney | Bonnie Davidson Miller, Darlene K. Edwards, Three Emigrants from Cloughrea: The Stories of Jack, Julia, Anne and Mary Matthews: their birthplace, their lives, their descendants and Ancestors |
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19th at 7:30 pm.
LAUNCH OF “Ríocht na Midhe 2020”
by Dr Michael Smith, Bishop Emeritus.
Venue: Ardboyne Hotel, Navan, Co. Meath. C15 C9YA
This will be followed by a lecture "THE DISCOVERY OF THE MEDIEVAL MONASTERY SITE AT BEAMORE, CO. MEATH in 2019" Speaker - Geraldine Stout, MRIA,
Inquiries to Tom French, Hon Sec., 087 4119633, or Julitta Clancy, PRO, tel 01 8259438
Meath Archaeological and Historical Society
Programme of Events - 2022
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
“PEADER COWAN (1903-1962)
- GAA Administrator and Political Maverick”
Dr Tom Hunt
Zoom presentation - 8pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
“MEATH AND THE ANGLO-IRISH TREATY 1921”
Dr Peter Connell, Tim McKenna, Julitta Clancy
Columbanus Hall, Navan - 8.00pm
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
“HUGH DE LACY - 850th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GRANT OF MEATH TO HUGH DE LACY, 1172”
Noel French
Launch by Sean Drew (Cathaoirleach MCC) and Frank Cogan (President MAHS)
The Stockhouse, Finnegan's Way, Trim - 2pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
LAUNCH OF RÍOCHT NA MIDHE 2022
By Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Patron) followed by lecture –
“CLIMATE AND IRISH SOCIETY
- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE”
Dr John Sweeney
(Maynooth University) Ardboyne Hotel, Navan - 7.30pm
Reception and book fair – members and guests: 6.30-7.30pm
FRIDAY, MAY 27
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
followed by panel discussion
“COUNTY ARCHIVES AND THE LOCAL HISTORIAN”
with County Archivist Patricia Fallon and other local experts
Navan Library
- 7.00pm
SATURDAY, JUNE 25th
ANNUAL EXCURSION
Half day outing - Visiting Rokeby House, Old Mellifont Abbey and Monasterboice, Co. Louth.
Programme (all times approximate) is 1:30 Rokeby House
3:30 Old Mellifont Abbey
5:00 Monasterboice
6:00 - 7:30 Evening Meal
COST: €60 per person.
Please contact the organisers for details and bus times / route:
Fiona Ahern (087-9738763) or Julitta Clancy (086-0562177)
THURSDAY, JULY 21 “THE 5TH MEATH BATTALION AND CUMANN NA MBAN”
Frank Cogan and Tracey Holsgrove
Oldcastle Library - 7.30pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21
A WALK IN THE BOG
Guided walk with Kate Flood and the Killyconny Bog Project
St Kilian's Heritage Centre
Mullagh, Co. Cavan - 2pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
Séamus MacGabhann Lecture
“EPIC MAN, EPIC TALE - FR ROBERT CALLARY AND THE TÁIN BÓ CÚAILGNE”
Dr Paul Gosling
Kells Courthouse Tourism and Cultural Hub - 7.30pm
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9th (Please note change of date.)
George Eogan Memorial Lecture
“EXCAVATIONS AT DOWTH HALL”
Dr Clíodhna Ní Lionáin
(Project Archaeologist, Devenish Lands at Dowth)
Conyngham Arms Hotel, Slane - 3pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd
“LEX INNOCENTIUM - THE LAW OF INNOCENTS
Dr James Houlihan
St Columban's College, Dalgan Park, Navan - 7.30pm
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4th This event is postponed until early 2023.
“DROGHEDA GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 1659-2019”
John McCullen
Drogheda Grammar School - 3.00pm
Contact: Tom French, Hon. Sec. – 087 4119633
Voluntary contributions are accepted at lectures and outings
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