On 22 August 2018 in St Patrick’s, Carlow College, Carlow the Heritage Week mini lectures had a family and literary flavour.
Avril Hogan spoke about the business managed by five generations of her family in ‘Haddens 1848-1976, Five generations of Retailing in the South East’. Her research was the subject of her recent book ‘Hadden’s 1848-1976’.
Eugene Carbery gave a talk on the life, politics and business of his maternal grandfather, ‘The Life of Michael Governey’. He launched his book ‘Michael Governey (1852-1924) in November 2018.
As always the evening was very well attended and the audience was entertained and educated with the history of Haddens and Michael Governey.
Listen to Avrils talk here
Listen to Eugenes talk here
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