The above titled event takes place on 27th September 2023 in the Linen Hall in Belfast. The event is free, but booking is required.
Month: August 2023
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Dublin Festival of History 2023
The Dublin Festival of History runs from 25th September to 15th October 2023 and has many events of an IH nature.
I have created a page to list these.
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Clonsilla Heritage Festival
The Clonsilla and Porterstown Heritage Society are organising the Clonsilla Heritage Festival on 16th/17th September 2023 and a couple of the events are of an IH nature as follows:
Clonsilla & Royal Canal Heritage Walk – 16th September 2023
The Royal Canal / Shackleton’s Mill, plus Royal Canal Photo Exhibition – 16th September 2023
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Northern Ireland Heritage Days 2023
I have created a page listing the Northern Ireland Heritage Days events with an IH connection.
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Naomh Éanna update
I previously reported that the Naomh Éanna, located in one of the dry docks at Grand Canal Dock, had listed and called for the necessary action to have the boat removed.
RTE reports that the process of having the boat cut up has now commenced.
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Highways Agency to un-bury bridge
I previously reported on an act of heritage vandalism by National Highways (the roads agency in Great Britain), which buried a former railway bridge in Cumbria in concrete ‘to protect it’.
The Guardian reports that the local council have refused retrospective planning permission for the action, notwithstanding the offer of a bribe by NH in the amount of £450,000 to allow their work to remain.
Work has commenced on the un-burying of the bridge.
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Test of new Busconnects route
On Wednesday 16th August, I will be doing an interesting test of the new Busconnects option in North East Kildare to get home from a Heritage Week event in Sallins.
The plan is to get the train from Sallins to Hazelhatch (2005 ex Sallins) followed by the W61 from Hazelhatch to Maynooth. It will be an interesting test of whether or not the connectivity works.
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Heritage Week 2023
I did another review of the Heritage Week events listings and have updated the page for Heritage Week 2023 to reflect additional events.
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Limerick to Foynes Railway
Irish Rail are in the early stages of relaying the Limerick to Foynes Railway for freight traffic.
I found this video on YouTube of drone footage of the state of the line at the end of July 2023.