OUR TALKS AND EVENTS TO DATE – Foxrock Local History Club

In March 1978 the first committee meeting of the history club was held to try and promote an interest in the Local History of the area. By January 1981 there was enough information collected to start a programme of talks and outings as well as hold exhibitions. Forty-four years later the club is still going from strength to strength.

Date	Short talk	Speaker	Main Lecture	Speaker
20-Jan-81	Two short talks – Arson at Kilteragh	Liam Clare	A Short History of Foxrock	Ken Gregory
20-Jan-81	History of St. Brigid’s School	Ethna McGowan
17-Feb-81	Gleanings form Old Directories	Roisin Healy	South County Dublin in Pre-history	Betty O’Brien
24-Mar-81	Notes on Cabinteely House	Peig O’Sullivan	The Harcourt Street Railway Line	Kevin Murray
26-Apr-81	Kill-of-the-Grange Pottery and Brickworks	Tom Powell	A look at Dublin City and its Southern Suburbs a hundred 100 years ago	George Morrison
26-May-81			Seminar – Explore South County Dublin this Summer with Colm O’Connor, Donal O Siochain, Aidan McGowan, Geoff Cotter, Bill Caulfield, Tom Powell, Peig O’Sullivan, Noelle Ryan, M.C. was Ethna McGowan
22-Sep-81	Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines – at Leopardstown	Liam Clare	From Fishing Pier to Ferryport	Donal O’Sullivan
28-Oct-81	Ghost story based on “A Warning at Boley” by John J Dunne – given by:-	Rita Ryan	Early Christian Churches of South County Dublin	Betty O’Brien
18-Nov-81	Crime at Carrickmines; Trial by Court Marshall, 1798	Tom Powell	Historic Dublin through the eyes of Malton	Frank Murphy.
20-Jan-82	A.G.M.		Around the Two-rock Mountain	Paddy Healy
24-Feb-82	A memoir of Stillorgan Golf links	Neill Smith	Glimpses of South County Dublin History form the records of the Public Records Office	Aideen Ireland
24-Mar-82	Folklore of Foxrock	Ethna Mc Gowan	Watersources of South County Dublin	Michael McGovern
21-Apr-82	Samuel Beckett’s early days in Foxrock	Noelle Ryan	Ballycorus Lead Works	William Dick
19-May-82	Outing – Stillorgan Reservoir, St. Brigid’s Church Stillorgan
16-Jun-82	Outing – Brennanstown Portal Tomb, Tully Church
8-Sep-82	The Down Survey Map of Dean’s Grange/Foxrock area – what boundaries are still identifiable	Liam Clare	William Orpen	Viola Barrow
13-Oct-82	Kerrymount House and some digressions	Vicky Cremin	Some Antiquities of Dun Laoghaire and South County Dublin	Paddy Healy
10-Nov-82	A.G.M.		The Dublin Trams	Frank Murphy.
8-Dec-82	Informal Meeting
12-Jan-83	Boss Croker of New York and Glencairn	Paddy Cronin	Loughlinstown House	Rita Ryan
9-Feb-83	Kilruddery Hunt – intro by Tim Ryan, sung by	Proinnsias Hogan	Sir Horace Plunkett	Trevor West
16-Mar-83	Find of Bronze-age Cist at Cabinteely	Kathleen Delap	Leopardstown Park	Adele Lydon
13-Apr-83	Beatrice Elvery – Lady Glenavy	Noelle Ryan	The Manor of Clonkeen	Tom Powell
11-May-83	Unionist/Nationalist Election Campaigns in South County Dublin 1883-1923	Liam Clare	Display – Postcards	Michael McGovern
8-Jun-83	Outing – St Fintan’s Church	Betty O’Brien
8-Jun-83	Outing – Dean’s Grange Cemetery	Geoff Johnson
22-Jun-83	Outing – Rathmichael Church, Puck’s Castle, Hill and Ring Forts, Stone Cross at Rathmichael, Shankill Church.	Joan Delany
1-Sep-83			Exhibition – Old maps, Kilteragh, Dean’s Grange Cemetery, What it said in the Papers, Manor of Clonkeen, Kill-of-the-Grange Pottery, Harcourt Street Railway Line, Pre-historic Sites of South County Dublin, South County Dublin Election – 1885.
14-Sep-83	Kingstown Lifeboat Tragedy – 1895	Donal O’Sullivan	The Parish of Tullow	George Otto Simms
12-Oct-83	Mary Mercer	Vicky Cremin	Safari at Leopardstown – a Trek through local Place Names	Aodh O Canann
9-Nov-83	A.G.M.		John Field	Terry De Valera
11-Jan-84	Burton Hall	Rita Ryan	Architecture of Dun Laoghaire Area	Peter Pearson
7-Feb-84	Galloping Green	Noelle Ryan	The Parish of Foxrock	Paddy Cronin
14-Mar-84	Find of a Bronze-age cist at Beech Park Grove	Peig O’Sullivan	Looking through Old Photographs	Edward Chandler
18-Apr-84	Parnell at Dean’s Grange	Liam Clare	Granite – Our Bread and Butter	Nicholas Ryan
9-Jun-84	Outing – Kilruddery Estate Bray
12-Sep-84	Gleanings from Old Directories	Peig O’Sullivan	The story of Foxrock Geraldines G.F.C.	Austin Hynes
16-Sep-84	Outing – Dun Laoghaire Harbour	John De Courcy Ireland
16-Sep-84			Exhibition – Down and Civil Survey, Development of Foxrock from Maps, Porter’s Directory, Cists at Cabinteely and Beech Park Grove, Old photographs of Bray Hunt, Cabinteely Library, What it said in the papers, Illustrations on our Posters, Who was Who in
1-Oct-84			Community Radio – Manor of Clonkeen (Donal O’ Sullivan), Samuel Beckett (Noelle Ryan), Arson at Kilteragh (Patricia Hession), Burton Hall (Rita Ryan), History of St. Brigid’s School (Ethna McGowan), Dean’s Grange Cemetery (Vicky Cremin), the Briton’s Well
9-Oct-84	Relics of old Foxrock and Carrickmines	Dermot Kennedy	South County Dublin in the papers of the State Paper Office	Anne Neary
14-Nov-84	Diaries of G.F. Collins, Cornelscourt (1864-1904)	Ted Farrell	Banshee	Patricia Lysaght
9-Jan-85	House Names of the Foxrock Area	Sean Murphy	Village in the City – Problems and Prospects	Patrick Shaffrey
13-Feb-85	The Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire	Michael McGovern	Foxrock during the War of Independence	Tom Powell
11-Mar-85	Augustine Henry	Rita Ryan	Dalkey	Harry Latham
3-Apr-85	Seán Ë Riada	Sheila Keane	The Story of Cornelscourt	Ted Farrell
7-May-85	The Prison Hulk in Dun Laoghaire Harbour	Donal O’Sullivan	Finds from South County Dublin in the National Museum	Raghnall O Floinn
22-May-85	Outing – Leopardstown Park, Stillorgan Grotto, Obelisk
5-Jun-85	Outing – Carrickbrennan, Monkstown.
23-Jun-85	Outing – Roscrea.
18-Sep-85	Furniture of Cabinteely House	Maisie O’Brien	Seminar – Foxrock in the Forties	V. Rev Fr. Griffith, Reggie Farrell, Kathleen Delap, John (?) Ryan. M.C. was Ted Farrell
1-Oct-85			Exhibition – Furniture of Cabinteely House, Place names, Administration of County Dublin, St. Fintan’s Church, Bray and South County Dublin Herald, Village of Cornelscourt, Folklore Project, 1935, A Walk through Carrickmines, Foxrock Local History Club –
13-Oct-85	Outing – Walk through Cornelscourt	Ted Farrell
16-Oct-85	Obelisk, Stillorgan	Tom Powell	Loughlinstown Army Camp – 1795-1801	Vicky Cremin
13-Nov-85	Grange House	Moira Laffan	The Shipwrecks of the East Coast	John De Courcy Ireland
4-Dec-85			100 Years of Sound	Seán Logue
8-Jan-86	Our Water Supply	Enda Conway	Blackrock	Liam Mac Coil
12-Feb-86	Battle of Dean’s Grange – 1641	Dermot Kennedy	St. Brigid – a Saint with a South County Dublin Connection	Francis John Byrne
12-Mar-86	History from your Title Deeds	John Jones	Loughlinstown Workhouse in the 1840s	Liam Clare
9-Apr-86	(Double Bill) All that Fall – Beckett’s Foxrock Play	Tom Powell	History of Sailing in Dublin Bay	Donal O’Sullivan
21-May-86	Outing – A Stroll through Dun Laoghaire	Dermot Dwyer
4-Jun-86	Outing – Bray and Heritage Centre	Liam Clare
15-Jun-86	Outing – Kilkenny
10-Sep-86	Stones can Talk – Stone Artifacts in South County Dublin	Dermot Kennedy	Ancient Roads and Tracks of South County Dublin	Richard Pilkington
8-Oct-86	Lennox Robinson lived here	Vicky Cremin	Foxrock and the Region during the 1914/18 War	Paddy Cronin
11-Nov-86	Donnybrook Fair	Liam Clare	Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Leinster Landscape	Dathi Ó Hogáin
15-Nov-86			Exhibition – Parishes of South County Dublin, Obelisk at Stillorgan, Battle of Dean’s Grange (1642), St. John of God’s, The Grange, The Celtic Oratory, Loughlinstown Workhouse, Air Shows at Leopardstown, History from your Title Deeds, The Changing Lands
14-Jan-87	Meeting cancelled – snow
11-Feb-87	Carriglea Park – Country Demesne to Art College	Moira Laffan	The Harcourt Street Railway Line	Fergus Mulligan
11-Mar-87	Charles Halliday	Donal O Sullivan	South County Dublin and the Independent Ireland	Brian Kennedy
8-Apr-87	Some More House Names	Sean Murphy	Church Art – Ancient and Modern – in South County Dublin	Fergus O Farrell
13-May-87	Parnell Family Connections with South County Dublin	Peig O’Sullivan	Castles of Ireland	David Newman Johnson
23-May-87	Joint Outing of Foxrock, Dun Laoghaire and Bray – to Dalkey	Harry Latham
3-Jun-87	Outing – St. Helen’s Booterstown	Anne Brady
14-Jun-87	Outing – Fethard Co.Tipperary (Folk Farm and Transport Museum) and Cashel (visit to the Rock led by Fergus O’Farrell).
16-Sep-87	Gate Lodges of the Area	Pádraig Laffan	Kill of the Grange Pottery	Tom Powell
18-Oct-87			Exhibition – Stone Artifacts of the Area, Ancient Roads and Tracks, Lennox Robinson lived here, Foxrock and area in the !914-`18 War, Carriglea Park, Church Art of South County Dublin, Parnell Connections with the Area, Castles of the Area, South County
21-Oct-87			Zone of Stones – The Beckett Country	Eoin O’ Brien
18-Nov-87	Translations of Place Names	Peig O’ Sullivan	Holiday in Ireland 1862 – photographs	George Morrison
20-Jan-88	St. Helen’s Booterstown	Moira Laffan	South County Dublin in the later Middle Ages	Jim Byrne
17-Feb-88	Francis Elrington Ball	Vicky Cremin	Tracing your Family Tree	Liam Clare
16-Mar-88	Lecky	John Jones	Dun Laoghaire 1900 – 1920 – Winds of Change	Robbie Brennan
20-Apr-88	Dublin M.P.s – !800-1873	Paddy Cronin	Public Utilities in South County Dublin	Dermot Kennedy
11-May-88			Early Irish Settlers in Australia	R Reece
18-May-88	Outing – A stroll through the Liberties	Tony Behan
8-Jun-88	Outing – Kiltiernan Area	Dermot Kennedy
19-Jun-88	Outing – Boyne Valley, Battle of the Boyne, Cooley Peninsula
14-Sep-88	Dean’s Grange Townland – a Miscellany	Liam Clare	Leopardstown Races – The Early Days	Fergus Darcy
24-Sep-88	Archaeology Day – display in Super-Value shop window
9-Oct-88			Exhibition – “Here’s to their Memory” – Deans Grange Cemetery, Small Cemeteries, Ancient Monuments, Plaques and Stone Artifacts, Centenaries and Anniversaries, Road Names, Places and objects named in memory of people
12-Oct-88	The Sinking of the Leinster	John Jones	Dublin’s Water Supply – Ancient and Modern	Kevin O’Donnell
23-Oct-88	Millennium Local History Exhibition.
9-Nov-88	Dun Laoghaire Fire Brigade and the Belfast Blitz – 1941	Roland Tormey	A Stroll around Shankill and Bray 1837	Rob Goodbody
11-Jan-89	Pirates of the Muglins	Pádraig Laffan	Dean’s Grange Cemetery	Vicky Cremin
8-Feb-89	A history of the Administration of County Dublin	Liam Clare	Life in Merrion Square	Donal O’Sullivan
8-Mar-89	Siege of Carrickmines	Dermot Kennedy	Development of Foxrock – a Planner’s View	Enda Conway
12-Apr-89	Clonkeen House	Moira Laffan	Augustinian Friars and South County Dublin	F.X. Martin
10-May-89	Herman Goertz	Brian Kennedy	Aerial Photographs and the sites of South County Dublin	Leo Swan
20-May-89	Outing – Chapel Rotunda Hospital, & Casino at Marino	Vicky Cremin & Geoff Johnson
20-May-89	Display – Super Valu window – Archaeology
31-May-89	Outing – Barrington’s Cemetery, Barrington’s Tower, and Brennanstown Dolmen	Dermot Kennedy
7-Jun-89	Outing – with Dun Laoghaire Boro Historical Society – to Glencree
18-Jun-89	Outing – Barrow Valley, Borris House, St Mullin’s, Graiguenamanagh, and Moone.
13-Sep-89	Duke of Wellington’s walk – Cornelscourt to City	John Jones	A Geographer looks at Dublin Landscapes	Willie Nolan
7-Oct-89			Exhibition – St Brigid’s School, Milestones, Clonkeen House, What ancient churches looked like, Our Publications, Cabinteely House, Maps of the Area, Down and Civil Survey, Foxrock Local History Club
11-Oct-89	(Double feature) Dun Emor Guild and the Cuala Press	Vicky Cremin	Burning of their Books, Kingstown	Dermot Dwyer
8-Nov-89	The Meath Industrial School, Carysfort Avenue	Leán Ní Cuillenáin	Some aspects of the Natural History of Foxrock	Charles Meredith
10-Jan-90	A tribute to Samuel Beckett	Tom Powell	From Puck’s Castle to Martello Towers – Thoughts on the Military History of South County Dublin	K Ferguson
14-Feb-90	Rathmichael Hill Fort	Joan Delany	Excavations at Dundrum Castle	Betty O’Brien
14-Mar-90	Kilbogget House, Cabinteely and its Residents	Maureen Daly	Early Metropolitan Policing in South County Dublin	Sgt. John Duffy
11-Apr-90	The Barrington Family of Glendruid	Moira Laffan	The Road to Enniskerry	Paddy Healy
9-May-90	Watermills of County Dublin	John Bailey	An illustrated talk on Stillorgan	Anne Brady
16-May-90	Outing – Killiney and Ballybrack
30-May-90	Outing – Heronford Springfield farm and Tully Church
10-Jun-90	Outing to Locke’s Distillery Kilbeggan, Clonmacnoise and Athlone Town
12-Sep-90	Riot at Cabinteely – 1834	John Jones	History on your Doorstop	Dermot Kennedy
6-Oct-90			Exhibition – Military Archaeology, Transport, Vernacular Architecture, Kill-of-the-Grange Pottery, Old Local Advertisements, Hospitals and Institutions, Watermills, Foxrock Local History Club.
10-Oct-90	St. Anne’s Clontarf	Vicky Cremin	Malton’s Prints	Charles Aliaga Kelly
14-Nov-90	Silver Park	Tom Powell	McIlwaine, the Foxrock Painter	Terry De Valera
9-Jan-91	Daniel O’Connell’s meeting at Glencullen – 1823	Tom Doyle	History of Telephone/Telegraph communications with reference to South County Dublin	Brendan Reynolds
13-Feb-91	Forges	Pádraig Laffan	Settlement Patterns in County Dublin	Geraldine Stout
13-Mar-91	Kill Abbey	Maureen Daly	History of Bray	James Scannell
10-Apr-91	Holy Wells	Dermot Kennedy	Emergency 1939 – 1945	Col E.D.Doyle
5-May-91	Outing – St. Enda’s Rathfarnham & St. Columba’s College
8-May-91	Carnegie of the Libraries	Patrick Cronin	Topographical Development of Medieval Dublin	Howard Clarke
22-May-91	Outing – Glencullen	Dermot Kennedy
16-Jun-91	Outing – Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down
11-Sep-91	Shoot-out at Westminster Road	James Scannell	Foxrock Village	Brendan Reynolds
5-Oct-91			Exhibition – “Parallels” – Local History and the Greater World (what happened in the outside world and locally at the same time) – Prehistory, Early Christian Period, Norman times, Reformation & Commonwealth, Age of Revolution, 19th Century Politics, Vic
9-Oct-91	Glebe House and the Crock of Gold	Vicky Cremin	Parnell and Avondale	Máire Tobin
13-Nov-91	James Joyce and his family in County Dublin	Peig O’Sullivan	Building Dun Laoghaire Harbour	Donal O’ Sullivan
8-Jan-92	Carrickbrennan Cemetery	Joe English	Gun-running at Kilcoole	James Scannell
12-Feb-92	A View of Irish Stained Glass	Mary Brennan Holahan	South County Dublin in Maps	Paul Ferguson
11-Mar-92	The Bolivar – shipwreck on the Kish Bank – 1847	Liam Clare	The Lawrence Photographic Project	Pádraig Laffan
8-Apr-92	Shanganagh Castle	Rob Goodbody	Dress in Ireland	Mairéad Dunleavy
13-May-92	Michael Davitt and South County Dublin	Michael McGinley	Lesser Graveyards of South County Dublin	John Jones
9-Sep-92	Flann O’Brien	Peig O’Sullivan	Discovering the Dodder	Christopher Moriarty
14-Oct-92	Postage Stamps with South County Dublin connections	Liam Clare	Count Plunkett and Family	Moira Laffan
11-Nov-92	Trinity Graduates and South County Dublin	Vicky Cremin	By-passing History (Shankill By-pass)	Rob Goodbody
13-Jan-93	Pigeon House Hotel	Donal O’Sullivan	Céide Fields and Mayo 5000	Seamus Caulfield
10-Feb-93	St Columcille’s Hospital	James Scannell	What’s in a placename?	Brendan Scully
10-Mar-93	Watson’s Nurseries	Thomas Ruddock	By Derelict Railway to Submarine Forest – exploring the coast from Killiney to Bray	Liam Clare
14-Apr-93	Foxrock Lodge (Loreto Convent)	Maureen Daly	Military Road	Pádraig Laffan
12-May-93	Ancient Copy – a local newspaper miscellany	John Jones	Busses of South County Dublin	Michael Corcoran
8-Sep-93	Last Train from Harcourt Street	James Scannell	Pre-historic Sites of South County Dublin	Leo Swan
8-Oct-93	The Celtic Oratory, Dun Laoghaire	Pádraig Laffan	The Ancient Kingdom of Cuala	Francis Byrne
10-Nov-93	Fire Marks	Dominick Dowling	Enterprise Culture in Medieval Clonkeen	Tom Powell
12-Jan-94	Bridges on the Liffey	Brendan Reynolds	Ancient Rathdown and St. Crispin’s Cell	Emer Singleton
9-Feb-94	Murder at Stepaside	John Jones	On the Borders of the Pale	Rob Goodbody
9-Mar-94	Cabinteely House	Peig O’Sullivan	Charles Dickens’ Dublin	Jim Cooke
13-Apr-94	Bray and Enniskerry Railway	Liam Clare	The Hinterland of Tallaght	Willie Nolan
1-May-94	Outing – St. Fintan’s Church and Dean’s Grange Cemetery
1-May-94	Outing – Belcamp College
11-May-94			James Malton – too good to be true	Edward McParland
1-Jun-94	Outing – Lough Key, Clonallis House and Roscommon Town
16-Sep-94	Loughlinstown Army Camp	Vicky Cremin	Dundrum and its past	John Lennon
12-Oct-94	Lifeboat Tragedy 1875	James Scannell	Our Weather	Denis Fitzgerald
9-Nov-94	Rockfield House (Cluain Mhuire)	John Jones	Passage tombs and passage tomb builders in the Boyne Valley – 3,000 B.C.	Prof. George Eogan
11-Jan-95	Escape of Red Hugh O’Donnell from Dublin Castle	Pádraig Laffan	History from Postcards	Tony Behan
8-Feb-95	Memories of Foxrock Golf Club	Brendan Reynolds	The Mills of Milltown	Rob Goodbody
8-Mar-95	Motor Registration Plates used in County Dublin	Paddy Cronin	Belfield – the history of the making of a Campus	Dr. Donal McCarthy
12-Apr-95	William Saurin of Carysfort House	Tom Powell	The great exhibition of 1865 – and the building of the National Concert Hall	Neilli O’Cleirigh
1-May-95	Outing – Stillorgan Reservoir and St. Brigid’s Church Stillorgan
1-May-95	Outing – Donnybrook Village	Danny Parkinson
10-May-95	Memories of Lehaunstown Races	Liam Clare	Vernacular thatched houses	Michael Higginbotham
1-Jun-95	Outing – Ulster-American Folk Park
13-Sep-95			Art into History – a visual history of the Irish State – 1922 – 1949	Dr. Brian Kennedy
11-Oct-95	Double Bill – Kathleen Turner – a Local Historian	Joan Delaney	Double Bill – A Fenian success – 1867 in Stepaside and Glencullen	John Jones
8-Nov-95			Dublin Road Names	Peig O’Sullivan
10-Jan-96	Trees	Pádraig Laffan	The Orange Order – 1795-1995	Dr. William Smyth
14-Feb-96	Rosmeen Gardens incident	James Scannell	Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster – Christmas Eve1895	Seamus O’Connor
13-Mar-96	The Overend family of Dundrum	Moira Laffan	Bronze age landscapes from the air	Tom Condit
10-Apr-96	John O’Donovan and the Ordnance Survey	Vicky Cremin	On the trail of the Wingfields	Brian White
8-May-96			The Story of Cabinteely House	Peig O’Sullivan, John Jones, Liam Clare
22-May-96	Outing – Maritime Museum Dun longhaired
16-Jun-96	Outing – Ormond Castle, Carrick-on-Suir, Jerpoint Abbey, Waterford
17-Jun-96	Outing – Áras an Uachtaráin
7-Sep-96	Exhibition – Snapshots from the past – and present
11-Sep-96	Irish Folklore Commission	Dermot Kennedy	The Diaries of Elizabeth Smith	Séamus Ó Maitiú
9-Oct-96	The burning of the R.I.C. stations	Eddie Mulkeen	The four roads to Dublin	Deirdre Kelly
13-Nov-96	The tragic demise of Thomas Bewley	James Scannell	Our Own Place	Pádraig Laffan
8-Jan-97	The history of Letter Boxes	Brendan Reynolds	Early Christian Stones of Rathdown	Peig O’Sullivan
12-Feb-97	The Boland Family – bakers, sportsmen and writers	John Jones	Saving the harvest 1946: the Harsh Winter 1946/47	Pádraig Laffan
12-Mar-97	The Dean’s Grange Stream	Paddy Hayden	Money Religion and Love – a history of the LaTouche Family	Michael McGinley
9-Apr-97	Johnstown House	Francis Sheridan	Dublin and the Irish Sea area 1014 – 1169	Dr. Sean Duffy
14-May-97	Dean’s Grange from a 150-year-old map	Liam Clare	Old Coach Roads, 1745 – 1821	Colin Scudds
21-May-97	Outing – Blackrock
3-Jun-97	Outing – British Ambassador’s residence – Glencairn
22-Jun-97	Emo Court, Portarlington and Charleville Castle Tullamore
10-Sep-97	Aircrash on Djouce Mountain – 1946	Pádraig Laffan	The Parish of St. Mary’s – a history of Ringsend, Irishtown and Sandymount	Brian Siggins
20-Sep-97	Exhibition – The art of Local History – It’s all around you.
8-Oct-97	Last tram to Dalkey	James Scannell	Bog bodies of Ireland	Dr. Raghnall O’Floinn
12-Nov-97	Wisdom on stone in South County Dublin	Dermot Kennedy.	The Irish International Exhibition – 1907	Moira Laffan
14-Jan-98	Nationalist meeting at Kill-o-the-Grange (1883)	Vicky Cremin	Why Wexford 1798?	Tom Powell
11-Feb-98	John Francis Fitzgerald	John Jones	Victorian Bray	Liam Clare
11-Mar-98	Rochestown House	Francis Sheridan	Historic Blackrock Gardens of the 18th Century	John Ducie
8-Apr-98	What it said in the papers – 1950	Ann Scott	Victorian Buildings of South County Dublin	Jeremy Williams
13-May-98	The Elsnor Sisters	Dorothy Donnelly	Charles Pratt, Antiquarian Artist of Rochestown Avenue	Rob. Goodbody
20-May-98	Outing – American Ambassador’s Residence.
3-Jun-98	Outing – Cabinteely House
13-Jun-98	Outing – Altamount, Myshall and Dunleckney Manor
9-Sep-98	Bridges of the Area	Seoirse MacCraith	Dublin in 1798	Tommy Graham
14-Oct-98	It said in the papers 1939	Ann Scott	Yesterday – Mount Merrion	Gerard O’Kelly
11-Nov-98	Brennanstown house (Last meeting in school – move to Foxrock Community Centre)	Francis Sheridan	Local Heroes of the 1914/18 War	Dermot Kennedy
12-Jan-99	Dorothy Kaye – Artist of Foxrock and South Africa	Dorothy Donnelly	The recent archaeological excavations at Cabinteely	Malachy Conway
9-Feb-99	Old times in the barony – Foxrock 85 years ago	Peig O’Sullivan	Medieval Dalkey	Charles Smith
9-Mar-99	The Irish Tricolour	Vicky Cremin	19th and 20th century gardens of Blackrock	John Ducie
13-Apr-99	Frascati and the Lord Edward Fitzgerald connection	Moira Laffan	Ice Houses of South County Dublin	Mairead Johnston
11-May-99	Miscellany (a) plate from Tayleur; (b) Newspaper cutting; (c) a postcard; (d) a pine cone from the submerged forest. (John Jones cancelled – ill)	(a) Moira Laffan, (b) Peig O’Sullivan; (c) Dermot Kennedy; (d) Liam Clare	Irish High Crosses	Seamus Ware
14-Sep-99	George Darley of Kilternan (1795 – 1846), Poet, Mathematician and Dramatist	Vicky Cremin		Peter Pearson.
12-Oct-99	Fire at St. John of God’s	Dermot Kennedy	Prints and Pictures of South County Dublin	Pádraig Laffan
9-Nov-99	Royal visits to Dublin	Moira Laffan	Dean’s Grange – Ancient and Modern	Liam Clare
11-Jan-00	Fairholme – an old house at Kill-of-the-Grange	Peig O’Sullivan	Living in a stone age world – early settlement in South County Dublin	Gabriel Cooney.
8-Feb-00	Maurice Howell – a fourteenth century landowner	Francis Sheridan	Life in South County Dublin in the early Christian period	Dr.Elizabeth O’Brien.
14-Mar-00	Sir Michael and Lady Beatrice O’Loughlan of Alton Grange	John Jones	Going to the shops – the local retail trade in times gone by	Dermot Kennedy
11-Apr-00	The year 1932 from old newspapers	Ann Scott	The building of a Mansion – Old Conna Hill	Rob. Goodbody
9-May-00	Dundrum Foxrock and Kingstown Junction Railway	Liam Clare	Upstairs/downstairs in Foxrock – 100 years ago	Dorothy Donnelly
/5/00	Outing to Smithfield and Chief O’Neill’s
/5/00	Outing to Kilmashogue and Whitechurch
18-Jun-00	Outing to Wicklow and New Ross
12-Sep-00	Introduction to Exhibition	Pádraig Laffan	Dublin 1000 years ago	John Bradley
30-Sep-00			Exhibition “South County Dublin’s Christian Past” – Early Christian Churches, Early Christian Field Monuments, Early Grave Yards, St Brigid and St Fintan, Church Lands of South County Dublin, The Reformation in the South County Dublin Area, Post Reformation
10-Oct-00	Local Postcards	Dermot Kennedy	Antiquities of Old Rathdown	Christiaan Corlett.
14-Nov-00	Petty Crime a century ago	Frank Mc Goldrick	From Belle Vue to Powerscourt – a history of some Wicklow Gardens	K.M. Davies
12-Jan-01	A South County Dublin Victoria Cross winner from the Indian Mutiny	James Scannell	Bye Bye Century	Tony Behan
13-Feb-01	Mining in Wicklow	Moira Laffan	Life in Dublin around 1500 A.D.	Colm Lennon
13-Mar-01	Sea Baths of South County Dublin	Seán Quinn	Enclosing the Commons – with a focus on Sugar Loaf, Dalkey and Bray	Liam Clare
10-Apr-01	The finding of the Great Deer remains at Ballybetagh Bog	Pádraig Laffan	The Reformation at Christchurch	Raymond Gillespie
8-May-01	An illustrated map of Co. Wicklow – 1861	Mary Davies	local farming and a study of some local farms	Peig O’Sullivan
26-May-01	Visit to Christ Church with Raymond Gillespie
17-Jun-01	Outing to Limerick
27-Jun-01	Outing to Farmleigh
11-Sep-01	A centenary to celebrate – Andrew Carnegies benevolence	Seán Quinn	Shipwrecks of Dublin Bay	Cormac Lowth
9-Oct-01	Sculptures of South County Dublin	Seoirse MacCraith	The Putland family of Dublin and Bray	Liam Clare
10-Nov-01	Foxrock House	Edel Kennedy	German World War II espionage in County Dublin	James Scannell
8-Jan-02	Early studies of the geology of the Deans Grange area	Pádraig Laffan	Archaeological excavation at Cherrywood	John O’Neill
29-Jan-02			Saint Brigid – the Saint who emerged from the Celtic Mists	Liam Clare
12-Feb-02	Street Furniture	Dermot Kennedy	Dublin suburban townships – an illustrated history	Séamus Ó Maitiú
12-Mar-02	The year 1917 from newspapers	Frank Mc Goldrick	The Heart of Dublin	Peter Pearson
9-Apr-02	The North Strand bombing	Colin Scudds	Archaeological Excavations at Carrickmines Castle	Mark Clinton
14-May-02	The building of Foxrock Church	Ann Scott	Dun/Laoghaire/Rathdown – the Built Heritage	Majella Walsh
25-May-02	Outing to Airfield, Dundrum
8-Jun-02	Visit to Chester Beatty Library
16-Jun-02	Outing to Ballyfin House, Abbeyleix, Haywood Gardens, Dunmore Caves
10-Sep-02	Hidden Foxrock	Seoirse MacCraith	Jacobs’ the Biscuit Makers – an illustrated history	Séamus Ó Maitú
8-Oct-02	Mrs Edmundson of Westminster Road	Vicky Cremin	The Battle of Rathmines – 1649	Col. Donal O Carroll
12-Nov-02			We used it then – but now it’s history	Pádraig Laffan (presenter)
14-Jan-03	Cornelscourt Hill	Peig O’Sullivan	The Drumm Battery Train	James Scannell
13-Feb-03	Sir John Gilbert – Historian, Archivist and Book Collector	Moira Laffan	Archaeological Excavations at Temple Bar	Lindzi Simpson
8-Apr-03	Kill of the Grange Pottery and Brickworks	Liam Clare	Shankill evictions in the 1860s	Rob Goodbody
13-May-03	A walk in our area (Dean’s Grange and Brighton-Kerrymount)	Pádraig Laffan	Fifty years of Foxrock	Dorothy Donnelly
10-May-03	Visit to Dublinia
27-May-03	Visit to Ballycorus	Rob Goodbody
22-Jun-03	Visit to John F. Kennedy Arboretum, Dunbrody, The Hook lighthouse, Co Wexford.
9-Sep-03	Bog butter	Liam Downey	Foxrock 1919 – 1940	David Ferguson
13-Oct-03	Early Dublin Drainage	Pádraig Laffan	Emmet’s epitaph: his speech from the dock	Kevin Whelan
11-Nov-03	Foxrock Lodge	Dermot Kennedy	The tribes of early Leinster	Daithi Ó hÓgáin
13-Jan-04	Re-Joyce: a portrait of the artist’s happiest days in South Dublin	Seán Quinn	Horace Plunkett: Ireland in the new century, 1904-2004	Trevor West
10-Feb-04	An illustrated stroll around Foxrock and Leopardstown	Dorothy Donnelly	Imagining history, the novelist and local history	Aodh Ó Canainn
9-Mar-04	The Kingstown – Dalkey Atmospheric Railway	James Scannell	Some milestones in the history of early Tallaght	Seán Bagnall
13-Apr-04	Countess Markievicz and South Dublin	Moira Laffan	Anglo-Norman settlement in East Wicklow and South County Dublin	Lindzi Simpson
11-May-04	Loughlinstown Commons – and the affair of the washerwomen’s hut	Liam Clare	Timekeeping in the early historic period in Ireland	Patricia Ryan
22-May-04	Kilruddery
29-May-04	Rathfarnham Castle
13-Jun-04	Skerries, Ardgillen, Tara, Kilmessan
21-Sep-04	Bray’s night of terror	James Scannell	The Harcourt Street Railway Line	Brian MacAonghusa
19-Oct-04	A year from Newspapers (1937)	Frank Mc Goldrick	The sinking of the Leinster	Philip Lecane
16-Nov-04	Some bronze age finds in South County Dublin	Peig O’Sullivan	Beneath the Blessington Lakes, (the flooding of the Poulaphuca area)	Christiaan Corlett
18-Jan-05	Seán Ó Ríada	Seoirse MacCraith	Unearthing our hidden heritage; an update on the archaeology of South County Dublin	Geraldine Stout
15-Feb-05	Some writers and where they lived in Dublin	Moira Laffan	The history of Monkstown Parish	Etain Murphy
15-Mar-05	History form old postcards	Dermot Kennedy	Dublin’s great extortion scandal	Liam Clare
19-Apr-05	We live here’ – some southside suburbs	Sean Quinn	The M.V. Kerlogue	David Sheehy
17-May-05	Bronze age copper mining in Ireland	Liam Downey	Dublin in the days of horses and forges	Pádraig Laffan
28-May-05	Outing – Dalkey castle
31-May-05	Outing to Carrickbrennan cemetery and Monkstown parish church – Etain Murphy
19-Jun-05	All-day outing to King House Boyle and Arigna Mines
20-Sep-05	Dublin City – changed in our lifetime	Liam Clare	Dr Paul Singer of Shanahan’s stamps and Cairn Hill, Foxrock	Austin Stewart
18-Oct-05	A grand Olympic pig hunt – ‘Lá breá pleasúra’, Blackrock, 1789	Seán Quinn	Aspects of the emergency years 1939/1945	James Scannell
15-Nov-05	History from newspapers	Frank McGoldrick	The origins of Tara – clues from the excavations of the Mound of Hostages	Muiris O’Sullivan
17-Jan-06	More on the dating of bog butter	Liam Downey	Loughlinstown House	Rob Goodbody
21-Feb-06	More writers and where they lived in Dublin	Moira Laffan	Wigs and guns	Tony Quinn
21-Mar-06	Samuel Beckett in Foxrock	Dorothy Donnelly	Samuel Beckett at trinity College, Dublin	Jane Maxwell
18-Apr-06	Old photographs of Foxrock and Cabinteely	Pádraig Laffan	Streams and settlement patterns in South County Dublin	Brian MacAongusa
15-May-06	–	–	“We used it then – but now its in a Museum”
24-May-06	Visit to Killegar	John Callan
27-May-06	Visit to Beckett Exhibition, Trinity College
18-Jun-06	All-day outing to Tullynally Castle
19-Sep-06	History from old newspapers	Frank McGoldrick	Images of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown	Pat Walsh
17-Oct-06	Memories of Loreto Convent Foxrock in the 1940s	Stephanie Batt	Ballycorus Lead Mines and Works	Rob Goodbody
20-Nov-06	Monuments in protective custody	Peig O’Sullivan	From horse-drawn trams to LUAS	James Scannell
16-Jan-07	Quaker graveyards in SCD	Moira Laffan	Memories of Foxrock – 1940 – 1960	Geoff Lovegrove
20-Feb-07	Holy wells	Liam Downey	Lambay – an Island story	Gabriel Cooney
20-Mar-07	Homes fit for heroes	Seán Quinn	Historic graves in Deans Grange Cemetery	Ray Bateson
17-Apr-07	The search for Deans Grange castle	Liam Clare	Royal Society of Antiquities glass photo collection	Chris Corlett
21-May-07	Foxrock today	Seoirse MacCraith	Hill-top monuments of Wicklow and Dublin	Pádraig Laffan
	Visit to Iveagh House
5-Jun-07	Visit to Deepwell, Blackrock
10-Jun-07	Day visit to Athlone and Shannonbridge
18-Sep-07	History from Newspapers	Frank McGoldrick	We are not the Celts	Barry Raftery
16-Oct-07	A local sketch book	Tony Suttle	The Curragh – an introduction to the natural and cultural heritage of Ireland’s most important grasslands	John Feehan
20-Nov-07	A power of good – Leopardstown Park house	Seán Quinn	Pre-Norman churches in South County Dublin	Betty O’Brien
15-Jan-08	Attacks on Foxrock railway station, during the Civil War	James Scannell	Glendalough and its churches	Con Manning
19-Feb-08	St Patrick’s Church, Monkstown	Peig O”Sullivan	Memories of Cornelscourt in the 1950s – a resident remembers	Ted Farrell
18-Mar-08	A microcosm of the rural economy in the early 1900s – from a merchant’s ledger	Liam Downey	The Bray and Enniskerry Railway	Liam Clare
15-Apr-08	The 1918 ‘flu epidemic	Pádraig Laffan	Dundrum before the shopping centre	John Lennon
20-May-08	Foxrock and its architecture	Jacqui Donnelly	Cosslett Quin, local writer and Gaelic scholar	Aodh Ó Canainn
21-May-08	Visit to St Nathi’s, Dundrum
7-Jun-08	Visit to Marsh’s library
15-Jun-08	Visit to Leap Castle and Roscrea area
8-Sep-08	Welcome and historical introduction to Kill o’ the Grange parish	Revd Ferran Glenfield	Monkstown castle and the castles of Rathdown.	Christiaan Corlett
13-Oct-08	Farming in Ireland before the famine	Liam Downey	Thirteen hundred years of History at Kilmacurragh House and gardens	Séamus O’Brien
10-Nov-08	A soldier’s experiences of the first world war	Frank McGoldrick	Bray – That favourite resort	Mary Davies
12-Jan-09	The establishment of Deans Grange cemetery	Liam Clare	A day in the life of a medieval town	John Bradley
9-Feb-09	Nicholas Donnelly, churchman and historian	Peig O’Sullivan	Placenames of South County Dublin	Donal Mac Giolla Easpaig
9-Mar-09	The good that we do lives after us	Seán Quinn	The Eucharistic Congress of 1932	Rory O’Dwyer
20-Apr-09	Rabies in South County Dublin	Ted Farrell	Céide fields and Dún Bhriste today	Séamus Caulfield
11-May-09	Edward Chambré Hardman of Foxrock, early photographer	Pádraig Laffan	The story of Old Dun Laoghaire from slides	Séamus O’Connor
15-Jun-09			Foxrock Folk Club	Jeremy Kearney and Una Balfe
15-Sep-09	More of my father’s sketchbook	Tony Suttle	Robert L Chapman’s Ireland: Photographs from the Chapman-Livingston Collection 1907-1957	Chris Corlett
20-Oct-09	The Reverend Maxwell Henry Close	Myles Reid	Men and women farming in Ireland before the Famine	Liam Downey
17-Nov-09	The 1890 Carrickmines Bank railway collision	James Scannell	Roadside milestones	Rob Goodbody
15-Dec-09	Christmas long ago	Seminar: P Laffan, Peig O’Sullivan, L Clare, J Scannell, M Laffan.
19-Jan-10	The Proby Family	Frank McGoldrick	Communications from Morse to twitter	Pádraig Laffan
16-Feb-10	Penal crosses	Peig O’Sullivan	If trees could talk’ – a history of forestry in County Wicklow	Michael Carey
16-Mar-10	Daniel O’Connell and some South Dublin and Wicklow Connections	Moira Laffan	The wrecking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales	Edward Bourke
20-Apr-10	St. Columba’s College	Maureen Daly	William Dargan	Brian MacAonghusa
18-May-10 4-Jul-10	Outing to Cahir Castle and Fethard		Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Foxrock Church	Liam Clare
21-Sep-10	Leopardstown Agriculture College and the origins of the Racecourse	Liam Downey	Robert Halpin of Tinakilly House	Jim Rees
19-Oct-10	Arthur Warren Darley – A surprising member of the Co. Dublin Family	Peig O’Sullivan	Ardmore Studios – fifty years of filming	Kevin Moriarty
16-Dec-10	Patrick S. Dineen Lexicographer	Seoirse MacCraith	Lost Houses of Wicklow and South Dublin	Peter Pearson
18-Jan-11	Ancient Rock Art	Padraig Laffan	The Vartry Water System	Ron Cox
15-Feb-11	Cearbhaill O Dálaigh	Moira Laffan	Archaeological Finds in the Wicklow area	Chris Corlett
15-Mar-11	Local World War one heroes	James Kennedy	The Natural History Museum	Nigel Monaghan
19-Apr-11	A letter from the Boer war to Foxrock	Ted Farrell	Walking the Extended Luas Green line	Myles Reid
17-May-11	Death came unheralded – Caravaggio, Easter 1916 and the death of Percival Lea Wilson	David Neary	From Red Cow Lane to Bull Alley Street (Dublin Street and Place names)	Liam Clare
28-May-11	Outing to House Henrietta Street
31-May-11	Outing: a trip on the LUAS green line extension	Myles Reid
18-Jun-11	Outing: Historic Wicklow, Glencree, Avondale and tour.
20-Sep-11	Brian, Flann and Myles – at 100	Peig O’Sullivan	Presentation based on Millennium Exhibition of 2000 – substituted at short notice for advertised lecture.	Padraig Laffan
18-Oct-11	Census of 1911 in Foxrock	Dorothy Donnelly	Colm O Lochlann	J O’Loughlin Kennedy
15-Nov-11	Public Sculpture on O’Connell Street	Tony Suttle	Half a century at the stone – 1950-2000 (stone-working in South County Dublin).	Nicholas Ryan and Philip O’Neill
17-Jan-12	Voting irregularities at Coldblow Lane Donnybrook and the Enniskerry and Kilmacanogue connections	Gregory Peppard	The coming of the railways	Brian MacAongusa
21-Feb-12	Stained Glass- its creation and restoration, (with local references)	Muriel Ryan	Behind the wheel – motoring in the early twentieth century	James Scannell
21-Mar-12	Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne	Moira Laffan	Dublin Bay and the Kish Light	Pádraig Laffan
17-Apr-12	Water pumps and other street furniture	Maureen Daly	Townlands	Willie Nolan
15-May-12	Megalithic solar alignments	Liam Downey	The rise and demise of the Dublin Cattle Market, once ‘the biggest and best in Europe’	Liam Clare
22-May-12	Outing: Martello Tower No 7, Killiney
29-May-12	Outing: Maritime Museum Dun Laoghaire
24-Jun-12	Outing: Kilmallock
18-Sep-12	Dublin a hundred years ago	James Scannell	From seed shops to garden centres: a history of the nursery trade in our locality	Myles Reid
16-Oct-12	The Shamrock Fund’s links with Leopardstown and Bray hospitals (1919)	Brian White	Three Hundred years of Mount Merrion	Gerard O’Kelly
20-Nov-12	James Byrne, Labour activist of Dun Laoghaire	Peig O’Sullivan	The prison hulk in Dun Laoghaire	Donal O’Suilleabháin
15-Jan-13	Deciphering Assyrian Cuneiform – the life and works of Revd Edward Hincks	Neil Flanagan	Maps of South County Dublin	Arnold Horner
19-Feb-13	Michael Mallin	Úna Ó Callanáín	From Cromwell to Cholera – Charles Halliday’s pamphlet collection	Sophie Evans
19-Mar-13	Dr Kathleen Lynn, medical doctor and revolutionary	Moira Laffan	Virtual History	Niall Ó hÓisín
16-Apr-13	The history of butter in Ireland	Liam Downey	Billy Pitt had them made’ – The Martello Towers of Dublin	Rob Goodbody
21-May-13	General Valency	Pádraig Laffan	The castles of South County Dublin	Tadhg O’Keeffe
18-May-13	Outing to Tibraddan House
8-Jun-13	Visit to Enniskerry	Brian White
16-Jun-13	Day visit to Waterford
17-Sep-13	The Kilruddery Hunt	Pádraig Laffan	Tourists’ tales from Old Rathdown; How visitors viewed us in pre-Famine times	Liam Clare
15-Oct-13	Royal Irish Constabulary memories – the forgotten Irish	Myles Reid	Holy Wells of County Dublin	Gary Branigan
5-Nov-13	SPECIAL MEETING		FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE HISTORY CLUB
19-Nov-13	Ogham	Niall Flanagan	Lockout 1913: anomaly or turning point	Pádraig Yeates
10-Dec-13			Christmas presentation	Pádraig Laffan
21-Jan-14	Planned assassination attempt on Michael Collins in Stillorgan in 1922	James Scannell	In honour and memory’ – monuments in South County Dublin	Tim Carey
18-Feb-14	W.B. Yeates, Social or Political?	Maureen Daly	Unearthing the archaeology of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown	Christiaan Corlett.
18-Mar-14	The Search for Ireland’s Disappeared (work of Independent commission for the location of victims’ remains)	Frank Murray	Megalithic Art and Rock Art – how real is the difference? And does it matter?	Prof Muiris O’ Sullivan
15-Apr-14	William H Lecky the historian,	Moira Laffan	The Battle of Clontarf: – fact and fiction	Prof. Seán Duffy
20-May-14	Lord Anglesea’s scandal	Pádraig Laffan	Sandyford windmill and other inventions of Frank Aiken	Rob Goodbody
22-May-14	Outing to Killegar	John Callan
31-May-14	Visit to Joyce Tower, Sandycove
15-Jun-14	Bus tour to Carlow area: Huntington Castle, Ducketts Grove and much more.
26-Aug-14	Introductory talk to the history of Deans Grange	Liam Clare
26-Aug-14	Introductory talk to the history of Cornelscourt	Ted Farrell
26-Aug-14	Introductory talk to the history of Cabinteely	Peig O’Sullivan
26-Aug-14	Introductory talk to the history of Foxrock	Myles Reid
9-Sep-14	Fairholme – an old house at Kill-of-the-Grange	Peig O’Sullivan	[Part of the Kill of the Grange parish 150th Anniversary Celebrations.]
10-Sep-14	Historical walk around Deans Grange and Kill Abbey	Padraig Laffan	[Part of the Kill of the Grange parish 150th Anniversary Celebrations.]
11-Sep-14	Introductory talk to the history of Deans Grange	Liam Clare	[Part of the Kill of the Grange parish 150th Anniversary Celebrations.]
12-Sep-14	‘Cabbage plots, Nurseries and Garden Centres.’ History and Horticulture in our area.	Myles Reid	[Part of the Kill of the Grange parish 150th Anniversary Celebrations.]
16-Sep-14	William Wellington Bentley, the builder of Foxrock	Myles Reid	From Foxrock to Blackrock seventy-five years ago	Brian MacAongusa
21-Oct-14	Significant Women in South County Dublin in 1914-18 War	Michael O’Flaherty	First World War and its Local Impact	Ken Kinsella
18-Nov-14			150 Years of Kill-o-the Grange Parish	Mary Williams
			150 Years of Tullow Parish	Padraig Laffan
16-Dec-15			Light Touch’ History and Entertainment	Padraig Laffan
20-Jan-15	Fairholme	Peig O’Sullivan	Census 1911	Catherine Crowe
17-Feb-15	Remembering Jammets	Maureen Daly	From Puck’s Castle to the Martello Towers: Fortifications in South County Dublin	Ken Ferguson
10-Mar-15			30 Pictures and Comments – Quiz	All
21-Apr-15	Atlas of South County Dublin	Martin McCarthy	Loughlinstown Workhouse	Liam Clare
19-May-15	Kadar Asmal	Eibhlin Ni Oisin	Gallopi – 100 years ago	Tony Roe
27-May-15	Outing to Carrickbrennan Cemetery & Monkstown Castle	Michael O’Flaherty
5-Jun-15	Outing to Kilgobbin Church and Castle
21-Jun-15	Full Day outing to Belvedere House and St Mel’s Cathedral, Longford
15-Sep-15	George Victor Du Noyer – Artist, Geologist and Antiquarian	Myles Reid	Mapping Dublin’s Growth 1749-1847	Rob Goodbody
20-Oct-15	Winifred Letts	Bairbre O’Hogan	From Poolbeg to Arklow	Brian White
17-Nov-15	Houses of Blackrock	Frank Woods	Dublin Soldiers and the Great War	Pádraig Yeates
15-Dec-15	Christmas Themed Night	Padraig Laffan & Friends	Christmas Themed Night
19-Jan-16	The Diet of ordinary Irish People in Ancient Times’	Prof. Liam Downey	Irish Victorian Mountaineers’	Declan O’Keefe
16-Feb-16	Walter Osborne	Úna O Callanáin	St. Enda’s, Rathfarnham and 1916	Éanna De Búrca
15-Mar-16	Local Government – Roads and Dispensaries	Martin McCarthy	Lighthouses of the Irish Coast	Brian Maguire
19-Apr-16	James Mullett (Invincible) 1854 – 1915	Brian MacAongusa	Victorian Bray	Liam Clare
17-May-16	75^th Anniversary of the North Strand Bombing	Pádraig Laffan	Mills on the Dodder	Dan McEntee
28-May-16	Deansgrange Cemetery 1916 graves walking tour	Michael O’Flaherty
1-Jun-16	Blackrock Village walking tour	Frank Woods
19-Jun-16	All day outing, Mellifont, Carlingford and The Táin area
20-Sep-16	George Petrie – Artist, Antiquary	Myles Reid	The picture postcard legacy of John Hinde	Jim Scannell
18-Oct-16	Frongoch	Éanna de Búrca	100 years of division in Kingstown 1816-1916	Tom Conlon
15-Nov-16	A.G.M.		The Reverend Thomas Goff (1772-1844) of Carriglea.	David Doyle
13-Dec-16	No Short talk needed		Christmas theme
17-Jan-17	Music night – no short talk needed		History of the development of Traditional Irish music and song	Siobhan Mí Chonoráin
21-Feb-17	Nelson Family of Kells, UK and Argentina	Michael Richardson	Manning Robertson and the 1936 Dun Laoghaire Survey and Plan	Michael Cregan
21-Mar-17	Newtown Fife and Drum Band	Conor Dodds	Grand Canal Revival – Royal Canal Restored	John McKeown
18-Apr-17	William Sealy Gosset of Hollyville Park – Statistician and Brewer	Liam Doyle	Stone Bridges of Dublin	Rob Goodbody
16-May-17	The 14th century Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity at Deansgrange	Padraig Laffan	Georgian Dublin – The forces that shaped the city	Diarmuid O’Grada
13-May-17	St. Enda’s Rathfarnham – Pearse Museum	Éanna de Búrca
20-May-17	Deansgrange Cemetery walking tour	Michael O’Flaherty
18-Jun-17	All day outing, Kilkenny Castle, Museum, Rothe House & St. Canice Cathedral
19-Sep-17	Newgrange – recent research.	Éanna de Búrca	Ancient Roman influences in our area	Michael O’Flaherty
17-Oct-17	Viking influence around us.	Brian MacAongusa	Irish Boundary Commission of 1925	Declan Ryan
21-Nov-17	A.G.M.		REELING IN THE YEARS WITH THE HISTORY CLUB – Forty years of peeling back our hidden heritage of history	Liam Clare
12-Dec-17	Christmas Themed Night	Padraig Laffan & Friends	Christmas Themed Night
16-Jan-18	The great Flu Pandemic of 1918	Padraig Laffan	From 2RN to RTE Radio	Harry Bradshaw
20-Feb-18	A Civil War night of bombs and bullets in Shankill – August 1922	Jim Scannell	Torpedoed! The sinking of the RMS Leinster	Philip Lecane
20-Mar-18	The remaining, the lost and the forgotten gate lodges in our area	Myles Reid	Leopardstown Park Hospital, 1917 – 2017	Dr Eoin Kinsella
17-Apr-18	Newtownpark House	Michael O’Flaherty	The complete guide to the statues & sculptures of Dublin	Neal Doherty
15-May-18	Our Townlands	Padraig Laffan	Sir Ernest Shackleton and the heroic age of Antarctic exploration	Neal Webb
5-May-18	Local History Clubs Day in the Lexicon	TALK GIVEN	The 14th century Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity at Deansgrange	Padraig Laffan
23-May-18	Dun Laoghaire Walking Tour	Michael O’Flaherty
26-May-18	Tully Church Development	Padraig Laffan
17-Jun-18	All Day tour Birr Castle gardens and Science museum & Roscrea Damer House, Castle & High Cross
18-Sep-18	Murder incident in Deansgrange during the Civil War	Jim Scannell	Pearl and Alfonso – a Foxrock and Spanish connection in the 1920’s and 30’s	John Porter

7-Oct-18	Local History Clubs Archive Collections	dlr Lexicon Chaired by Padraig Laffan	Finding a Home for your Collection	Liam Clare
16-Oct-18	The Anglo Normans and their influences in our area	Brian MacAongusa	Irish Women’s Involvement in Politics, Nationalism, Revolution and Suffrage in 1918	Liz Gillis
20-Nov-18	A.G.M.		The Armistice of Nov 1918	Ronan McGreevy
Dec 11 2018		Padraig Laffan & Friends	Christmas Themed Night
15-Jan-19	Full Talk for the evening – no short talk needed		John Feeney – Forgotten Irish Tenor from Mayo	Harry Bradshaw
19-Feb-19	Horace Plunkett – his life and work and his Foxrock connection	Declan Ryan	Richard Bridges Beechey – Naval Officer and Marine Artist	Cormac Lowth
19-Mar-19 30-Mar-19	The murder of the McMahon brothers in 1922 6 Day trip to Rome & Naples	Norah Glynn Michael O’Flaherty	The Life and Times of Alfie Byrne	Trevor White
16-Apr-19	Rocks, Digs and Boulders in the Foxrock Area	Padraig Laffan	Cherrywood – Past, Present and Future	Myles Reid
21-May-19	Full Talk for the evening – no short talk needed		Queen Victoria – Her life and her Irish visits	Frank Woods
25 May-19	Guided tour of Richmond Barracks, Inchicore	Guide Staff
28 -May -19	Walking tour of Dalkey Village an environs.	Michael O’Flaherty
13-Jun-19	Full day outing to Portumna Workhouse and Castle
17-Sep-19	The Shooting of the Murray Brothers at Stillorgan, 1922	James Scannell	The story of Chief O’Neill & the saving of Irish Music	Harry Bradshaw
15-Oct-19	Windsor House Monkstown	Philip Lecane	Lord Anglesea’s Wall	Padraig Laffan
19-Nov-19	AGM – NO SHORT TALK		A new perspective on James Malton’s picturesque and descriptive views of the City of Dublin	Dr Conor Lucey
10-Dec-2019			DECEMBER XMAS EVENT	Padraig Laffan and committee help.
21-Jan-20	Early Society in South County Dublin	Brian MacAongusa	A History of Dublin Port	Cormac Lowth
18-Feb-20	Great Gatherings and Notable Visitors	Padraig Laffan	Women in the Irish Revolution	Sinead McCoole
10 Mar-2020	NO SHORT TALK		Family memories of the 1914-1924 period -as recorded by members of the history club (WWI, 1916, War of Independence, Civil War, The Constitution etc)	All
APRIL & MAY CANCELLED	Due to COVID-19	HALL MEETINGS	ALL OUTINGS ALSO CANCELLED
20 Aug-20	The Burning of St. Michael’s Church Dun Laoghaire	Frank Woods	ZOOM TALK FOR HERITAGE WEEK
15 -Sept- 20	The Birth of the Border	Cormac Moore	ZOOM TALK
13 -Oct -20	Kevin Barry	Carmel Kelly	ZOOM TALK
20 -Oct -20	An Odyssey of Oddities around Dublin Bay	Cormac Lowth	ZOOM TALK
17-Nov-20	Arctic exploration and search for Franklin’s lost expedition	Kevin Cronin	ZOOM TALK
24-Nov-20	A.G.M.	VIA ZOOM
12 -Jan -2021	The Lost Story behind the ‘Harry Clarke’ Stained Glass Window Panel in Foxrock Church	Liam Clare	ZOOM TALK
19-Jan-21	Willaim Orpen	Dominic Lee	ZOOM TALK
9-Feb-21	Lennox Robinson – Ireland’s ‘Man of the Theatre’ and Foxrock Resident.	Declan Ryan	ZOOM TALK
16 -Feb -21	Ballycorus Lead Mines	Rob Goodbody	ZOOM TALK
09 -Mar-21	Walled Gardens in our area in the past	Myles Reid	ZOOM TALK
16-Mar-21	Eoin O’Duffy	Maurice Manning	ZOOM TALK
13-Apr-21	Power to the People- from Ardnacrusha to Deansgrange.	Michael Hughes	ZOOM TALK
20 -Apr -21	Mutinies in the early 20th Century	Éanna De Búrca	ZOOM TALK
11-May-21	The Vartry to Stillorgan Water Works .	Tony Keane	ZOOM TALK
18 -May -21	The burning of the Customs House	Liz Gillis	ZOOM TALK
12-June-21	Short Outing, Killiney Hill.	Led by Michael O’Flaherty	COVID RULE OF SOCIAL DISTANCE OBSERVED
19 -June -21	Short Outing, Dun Laoghaire Harbour	Led by Michael O’Flaherty	COVID RULE OF SOCIAL DISTANCE OBSERVED
17 – Aug-21	The Killruddery Hunt	Padraig Laffan	ZOOM TALK FOR HERITAGE WEEK
14-Sept-21	80th Anniversary of The North Strand bombing	Padraig Laffan	ZOOM TALK
21-Sept-21	National Yacht Club Dún Laoghaire	Donal O’Sullivan	ZOOM TALK
12-Oct-21	George IV – his 1821 visit to Ireland	Frank Woods	ZOOM TALK
19 -Oct-21	UCD and the development of Belfield	Finola O’Kane	ZOOM TALK
9-Nov-21	A.G.M.	VIA ZOOM
16-Nov-21	Dublin Housing Crisis in Revolutionary Times 1915-1923	Cathy Scuffil	ZOOM TALK
11-Jan-2022	The history of Christ Church lands in and around Deansgrange.	Martin McCarthy	ZOOM TALK
18-Jan-22	Records, ruins and reconstruction: the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland	Dr. Ciaran Wallace	ZOOM TALK
8-Feb-22	Irish Teachers in Africa – a personal experience	Joe Glynn	ZOOM TALK
15-Feb-22	Bill Stapleton and the Irish Recording Company	Harry Bradshaw	ZOOM TALK
8-Mar-22	SS Isolda: Censorship, Secrecy and Grief in Emergency Ireland	Elleesa Rushby	ZOOM TALK
15-Mar-22	Digging up the Raj in Deansgrange Cemetery	Shabnam Vasisht	FIRST RETURN TO THE HALL IN 2 YEARS POST COVID AND ALSO USED ZOOM FOR THIS
12-Apr-22	Dun Laoghaire Street Names	Michael O’Flaherty	ZOOM TALK
19-Apr-22	Liam Devlin: Tough Times, Toffee and Textiles	John Healy	HALL AND ZOOM
10-May-22	The Very Early Days of Dublin Airport	Tony Keane	ZOOM TALK
17-May-22	The Rebel’s Wife-Matilda Worthington Tone	Larry Breen	HALL AND ZOOM
21-May-22	Short Outing Tour of the Raj graves in Deansgrange Cemetery	Led by Shabnam Vasisht
11-Jun-22	Short Outing Booterstown and the lost village of Williamstown	Led by Michael Hughes
15-June-22	Full day outing to Athlone. The castle, a boat trip on the Shannon, the Luan Gallery and the Church in Athlone	Trip taken by train
13-Sept-22	George McElroy: Irelands Forgotten First World War Fighter Ace.	Philip Lecane ZOOM TALK	20-Sept-22 – The Big Houses in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown as Religious Institutions.	Prof. Deirdre Rafferty – IN THE HALL ONLY
11-Oct-22	Anna Haslam – Quaker and suffragette	Carmel Kelly ZOOM TALK	18-Oct-22 -Kathleen Clarke: Guardian of the Flame	Liz Gillis – IN THE HALL ONLY
8-Nov-22	AGM	Via ZOOM	15-Nov-22 -Dr. Ella Webb: Children need help and I am going to help them	Dr. Declan Warde IN THE HALL ONLY
11-Jan-23	The McCombie Family of Monkstown	Cormac Lowth ZOOM TALK	17-Jan-23 – The History of Weather Reporting	Dr. Evelyn Cusack IN THE HALL ONLY
14-Feb-23	Fell Down, Slipped in, Knocked Down.	James Scannell ZOOM TALK	21-Feb-23 – Eileen Gray (1878-1976) Irish designer and architect	Patricia O’Reilly – IN THE HALL ONLY
14-Mar-23	Weaving in the Liberties	Cathy Scuffl ZOOM TALK	21-Mar-23 – St. Michael’s Hospital & Dun Laoghaire County Hall – Conjoined Beginnings	Donal O’Sullivan – IN THE HALL ONLY
11-Apr-23	The Life and Times of pugilist Dan Donnelly	Larry Breen ZOOM TALK	18-Apr-23 – Knocksinna Foxrock – The Houses and the People	Vincent Delany – IN THE HALL ONLY
9- May-23	Four short topics – (1) 19th century posters, (2) Cabinteely House gate design,(3) Signal Towers and (4) Scrimshaws	Padraig Laffan ZOOM TALK	16-May-23 – Treaty Debates in the Dáil and Westminster	Gabriel Doherty – IN THE HALL ONLY
6-May-23	SHORT OUTING 1. Fernhill Gardens	Rob Goodbody
14-June-23	ALL DAY OUTING – Johnstown Castle, Wexford	Train to Wexford	Guided tour of the Castle, tour of the Agricultural Museum and Gardens
19-Sept-23	Dublin 18 Scenery Appreciation	Alan Touhy
17-Oct-23	The Irish Artist – Margaret Allen (1832-1914)	Derville Murphy
21-Nov-23	A.G.M.	followed by:-	Leopardstown Racecourse Origins.	Prof. Fergus D’arcy
Jan 16th 2024	The accidental diplomat: my years in the Irish Foreign Service, 1987-1995	Eamonn Delaney.
Feb 20th 2024	With the 6th Battalion – South County Dublin and the War of Independence 1916-1921	James Brady
Mar 19th 2024	Life in ‘Emergency Ireland’ 1939-1945	James Scannell
Apr 16th 2024	New research notes on the building of Dun Laoghaire Harbour.	Donal O’Sullivan
May 21st 2024	A Night of Artifacts		Involving all the history club members to talk for a few minutes on each of their historical artifacts and the history behind these.
April 24th 2024	Short Outing	Dun Laoghaire Town Hall
May 11th 2024	Short Outing	Grangegorman TU Campus	Philip Cohan
June 13th 2024	Full Day Outing	Waterford	Museum Quarter