Category: Events

The inaugural Birr Engineering Festival will take place on 18th – 20th October 2024.

Further details can be found here.

A talk about the history of Pierce’s Foundry, Wexford, will be hosted by the Wexford Historical Society on 24th April 2024 at 8pm in Clayton White’s Hotel in Wexford.

All are welcome – entry is free to Wexford Historical Society members, with an entrance fee of €5 for non-members.

There is a talk on the Castlecomer railway branch, focused on the intermediate station of Corbetstown, being held in The Cave Bar, Corbetstown, Co. Kilkenny at 8pm on 16th April 2024.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

The above titled talk, hosted by Wexford Historical Society and given by Peter O’Connor will be held in Gorey Library, Gorey, Co. Wexford on 29th February at 7pm.

The above titled talk, given by Rob Goodbody, will take place in the Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club, Ringsend, on 15th February 2024 at 20:00. All are welcome in return for a contribution to the RNLI at the door.

The Westmeath Independent reports that an exhibition on the bridges of Athlone will be launched on Tuesday 19th December 2023 at 18:30 in Athlone Library

The exhibition will run until 8th January 2024.

Open House Dublin 2023 takes place between 7th and 15th October 2023. I have compiled a list of events with an IH connection.

In addition to events at specific sites, there are a number of film clips of other venues on the OHD site and three of these are relevant:

Poolbeg Chimneys

Iveagh Markets

Pigeon House Power Station

The above titled event takes place on 27th September 2023 in the Linen Hall in Belfast. The event is free, but booking is required.

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.

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