Category: Events

Northern Ireland Heritage Open Days is taking place on 13th and 14th September 2025 (some events on Friday 12th).

I have created a listing of events of an IH nature.

The above titled play, described as “a show featuring music, singing and theatrical performances telling the story of miners’ lives in the coal mines of the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary” is taking place on 29th August 2025 in The Horse and Jockey Hotel’s Derrynaflan Theatre.

Further details, including how to buy tickets, can be found here.

I decided to leave compiling the Heritage Week listing until later this year, rather than having to do multiple reviews of the listings. The list of IH related events in Heritage Week is now online here.

There is a significant reduction in the number of IH related events this year, compared to previous years, which is regrettable.

Well known historian Rob Goodbody will be giving a talk on the Bridges of Wicklow to the Roundwood Historical Society on 20th May 2025 at 20:00 in the Roundwood Parish Hall.

There is a charge of €5 for non members of the Society, reduced to €3 for Roundwood Historical Society members.

Nationwide is a thrice weekly TV programme on RTE1, covering local interest stories not covered in mainstream news reports.

The three editions in the week commencing 28th April 2025 (Monday 28th April, Wednesday 30th April and Friday 2nd May) are devoted to Dublin Port and may be of interest.

H/T to the yaycork.ie website for bringing this to my attention.

The Galley Head Lighthouse in Cork will be open to visit on Sunday 27 April 2025 between 1200 and 1700. For those wandering around the grounds of the lighthouse, there is no charge but a charge of €5 applies for those wishing to climb the lighthouse tower.

Parking is not available at the lighthouse, but a shuttle bus will be running to/from the lighthouse to facilitate visitors.

The County Donegal Railway Museum are holding the above titled event – a talk about the former railways of Strabane and a book launch of a book of the same title.

The event is on 26th March 2025 at 19:00 in the Alley Theatre, Strabane, Co. Tyrone. The event is free, but pre-booking is required and can be done here.

Dublin City Council are hosting the above titled talk on 23 April 2025 at 18:00 in the Mansion House in Dublin.

The event is free but registration is required and can be done here.

The above titled talk is a photographic journey on the waterways around Newry, which takes place on 22nd March 2025 at 14:00 in Newry & Mourne Museum in Newry. Tickets can be obtained here and cost £2.50.

Mine Lands: Glendalough and Glendasan is the title of an art exhibition taking place in the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, Co. Wicklow, which will open on 24th February 2025 and run until 10th May 2025.

From the Irish Independent, the exhibition constitutes:

“the focus of new work by Dublin-based painter Judy Carroll Deeley, who explores the former lead and silver mining sites at the Glendalough and also at the Glendasan valleys in Co Wicklow”

There is a reception with opening address on Saturday 22nd February at 14:00 and all are welcome.