On Wednesday 19th February at 8pm in the Talbot Hotel, Dr Karen Dempsey gave a talk on ’Sights, Sounds and Smells: Experiencing Daily Life at some Carlow Castles’. What comes to mind when we think of the medieval castle? Hopefully we have moved beyond conjuring images of
Join Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society for the third in the winter lecture series. Niall O Brien will present ‘The Barrow Navigation: a social and economic history’. This talk will discuss the physical layout of the navigation with its canal, weirs, locks, land holdings and buildings. Also
On 20 Nov 2019 Dr Tom McGrath of Carlow College, St Patrick’s gave a talk on ‘Bishop Doyle (JKL) and Daniel O’Connell’. There was a large turn-out for the Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society’s public lecture on the relationship between Bishop Doyle (JKL) and Daniel O’Connell. The
On Wednesday 16 October, a large attendance at the Step House hotel in Borris heard Dr David Heffernan speaking on ‘The Kavanaghs of Carlow and the Tudor Conquest of Ireland c.1515-1603’ He outlined how the sixteenth-century saw the gradual erosion of the Kavanagh lordship in Carlow by
(All Photos courtesy Paul Curran) On Weds 15 May Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society presented an entertaining and very educational talk in the Talbot Hotel by Eoin Grogan on Excavations at Carrig, Co. Wicklow: A Bronze Age family cemetery. Dr Grogan explained how land improvement works in
(All Photos courtesy Paul Curran) Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society presented a very entertaining talk by Leo Mc Gough on ‘The GAA in Carlow in the Revolutionary Years’ in Eire Og Club House on Wednesday 17th April 2019. Leo Mc Gough is a well-known GAA historian who
On Wednesday the 20th March in the Bagenalstown Credit Union Building , Dr Brian Jackson gave a very interesting talk entitled Merchants and Missionaries: The Society of Jesus, salvific optimism, economic opportunity, material consumption and varieties of uniformity in Irish Counter Reformation Catholicism, 1540-1640. This talk explained
Dr Ida Milne is a social historian of disease, who specialises in interviewing people to collect the lived experience of disease. She is European history lecturer at Carlow College, St. Patrick’s, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy Historical Sciences Committe. On 27th February 2019, in the beautiful
The first CHAS lecture of 1919 took place Wednesday 16 Jan in Carlow Town Hall at 8pm. John O’Donovan spoke on the 1918 General Election. The 1918 election was a turning point in Irish history and impact of this momentous event was remenbered and explained during John’s talk. A
Here is the schedule of Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society lectures for 2018-19.