2021/22 Lecture Series
Dr Ann Power, The History of the Sisters of St Brigid (Brigidines), 16 March 2022. Audio Video
2020/21 Lecture Series
Dr Karen Dempsey, Castle Gardens, thinking green in the Medieval world, Heritage Week Lecture, 18 August 2021. Audio Video
Dr Elaine Callinan, Electioneering and Propoganda 1917-2, 29 May 2021. Audio Video
Sean Murray, Killeshin: A Portal in Time, 29 April 2021. Audio Video
Jennifer Carbery, Irelands Ancient East: the land of Legends and Stone, 21 April 2021. Audio Video
Dr Kevin Whelan, The Blackstairs Mountain Region – An Illustrated History, 24 March 2021. Audio Video
Dr Declan Downey KM, Hospitaller Knights of St John in Carlow 12th-21st Centuries, 17 February 2021. Audio Video
Kieran Hickey, Wolves in Ireland, 20 January 2021. Audio Video
Oliver Whelan, Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875, 18 November 2020. Audio Video
Launch of Carloviana 2021
John Garahy, author of article ‘Killed because he was a pal – Death in Borris March 1921’
Aoife Haberlin, author of article ‘Carlow and the Crusades c. 1095–1291’
Prof. Paul Horan, author of article ‘The World War I Odyssey of Borris Nurse Hannah Fogarty’
Helen Doyle, author of article ‘Institutionalising Madness: Carlow District Lunatic Asylum’
Launch of Carloviana 2021 by Malcolm Noonan TD, Minister for Heritage
2019/20 Lecture Series
Launch of Carloviana 2020
Turlough O’Brien, Launch of Carloviana 2020, 28 November 2019
Dr Shay Kinsella, Film of Carlow Home Rule Demonstration 1913, 28 November 2019
2018/19 Lecture Series
Leo McGough, Carlow GAA in the Revolutionary Period, Nationalist, 30 April 2019
Dr Ida Milne, Stacking the coffins: the 1918-1919 influenza. 27 February 2019
John O’Donovan, The General Election of December 1918, 16 January 2019
Paul Maguire, Returning Veterans of WWI, 21 November 2018
John Kelly, Robert Hartpole, Tudor Constable of Carlow, 17 October 2018
Avril Hogan, Haddens 1848-1976, Five generations of Retailing in the South East’, 22 August 2018
Eugene Carbery, The Life of Michael Governey, 22 August 2018
2017/18 Lecture Series
John Kelly, The Lost Colony – Carlows Huguenot Heritage, 18 April 2018
Pat O’Neill and Dan Carbery, Old Street and Lanes of Carlow, 21st March 2018
Jim Shannon, The Great War through the eyes of the Poets, 21st February 2018
Dr. Diarmuid Wheeler, The Tudor Marshals of Leinster, 17th January, 2018
Dr. Catherine Cox, Carlow Lunatic Asylum, 18th October, 2017
Dr. Patrick O’Reilly, Cattle Plague in Ireland: An Early Medieval Game-Changer, 15th November, 2017
Dr. Patrick O’Reilly, Cattle Plague in Ireland: Presentation
2016/17 Lecture Series
Paul Maguire, The Battle of the Somme, 19th August 2016
Paul Maguire, The Battle of the Somme, Q&A, 19th August 2016
Msgr Brendan Byrne, St. Mary’s College, Knockbeg, 1913-1923, 15th March 2017
Jimmy Walsh, Carlow Fairs and Marts, 15th February 2017, Part 1 Part 2
Dr. Seamus Ó Murchú, The Archaeology of the Blackstairs, 19th April 2017
2015/16 Lecture Series
The life & times of Micheál Ó Hanrahán, Dr. Conor Kostick, 20th April 2016.
The Black Death in Carlow and Leinster, Finbar Dwyer, 18th May 2016
Other lectures and talks
Dargan 150
The Dargan 150 Seminar , commemorating the life of William Dargan, took place in the Dargan Building, Carlow IT on Saturday 18th November 2017. Here are some of the speakers on the day
Fergus Mulligan, Keynote Address
Dr. Kieran Feighan, William Dargan – Engineering Irelands transformation in the 19th Century
Pat O’Neill, William Dargan – Agricultural Improver & the Great Exhibition of 1853
Elaine Callinan: Launch of Carloviana 2017. Click here to access
John Kelly: Talk to Tudor Stuart Conference 2016 on ‘The Collection of cess, pardons and fines by Robert Hartpole, Constable of Carlow, between 1569 and 1571’. Click here to access
Seamus Murphy Collection: A variety of lectures, talks, tours and interviews recorded in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s by Seamus Murphy; a long standing member of the Old Carlow Society/Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society. Click here to access