See what's on in Societies over the next Programme year. To add your programme, send or email a copy to the Federation.
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| Month |
Day |
Date |
Time |
Society |
Location |
Event |
Speaker |
Visitor's Fee |
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| August |
Saturday |
2 |
12 noon OR 1:30 p.m. |
O'Neill Country Historical Society |
Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh at 12 Noon OR Grange GFC Club at 1:30 pm |
The Battle of the Yellow Ford 1598: Walk / Talk |
Paul Logue |
Details from 028 (048) 37549697 9am-6pm 0R 028 (048) 37549889 7pm-11pm |
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Sunday |
31 |
3:00 pm |
County Donegal Historical Society |
Tour includes the historic graveyard containing the 8th Century St. Mura's Cross, the grave of Agnes Jones (nursing pioneer who worked with Florence Nightingale) and the old Abbey ruins, graveyard where 68 victims of the White Star Liner, Laurentic are buried etc |
Field Day, Fahan |
Guide: Peter Gurrie of Fahan Community Council |
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|
| September |
Wednesday |
10 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards |
The Castlebawn Development |
Bill McAllister |
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| |
Monday |
15 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
A Century of Photographs |
Leslie Simpson |
£2.00 |
| |
Wednesday |
17 |
8:00 p.m. |
O'Neill Country Historical Society |
Benburb Priory |
The Wild Geese of Armagh and Tyrone (Evening of Traditional music) |
Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin |
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|   |
Saturday |
20 |
8:30 pm |
County Donegal Historical Society |
The Heritage Centre, Ardara |
Paddy McGill Memorial Lecture |
Dr Pat Wallace, Director of National Museum |
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|   |
Sunday |
21 |
3:00 pm |
County Donegal Historical Society |
Dunfanaghy Workhouse and the Hoen Head Megaliths |
Field Day Dunfanaghy |
Guide: Cary Meehan |
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|   |
Wednesday |
24 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Meeting Room Carrickfergus Library |
Belfast Shops of Yesteryear |
Roy Allen Former manager in Robbs, Castle Place |
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|
| October |
Wednesday |
8 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards |
Belfast-built WW2 Warships |
Charles Warmington |
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| |
Tuesday (Two events) |
14 |
7:30 p.m. |
O'Neill Country Historical Society |
Methodist Hall, Moy |
Annual General Meeting |
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8:30 p.m. |
O'Neill Country Historical Society |
Methodist Hall, Moy |
Settlers, Invaders and Cultural Identity |
Roddy Hegarty |
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|   |
Monday |
20 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Presbyterian Hall, Kildare Street, Ardglass |
F.J. Biggar- Ireland's Cultural Crusader |
Roger Dickson |
£2.00 |
|   |
Wednesday |
29 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Meeting Room Carrickfergus Library |
First World War |
Carol Walker Somme Heritage Centre |
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|
| November |
Saturday |
8 |
8:00 pm |
County Donegal Historical Society |
Coláiste Cholmcille, Ballyshannon |
Emerson Memorial Talk "Ballyshannon through the ages" |
Dermot Shannon, Archaeologist, Ballyshannon |
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| |
Wednesday |
12 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards |
Scouting in the Ards |
George Mawhinney & Sam Moore |
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|   |
Wednesday |
12 |
8:00 p.m. |
O'Neill Country Historical Society |
The Bottle of Benburb |
"Me an' Me Da" - The life and times of W. F. Marshall: Ballads/verse |
Seamus Shields |
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|   |
Monday |
17 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Launch of Journal - Lecale Review No 6 |
To be arranged |
Nil |
|   |
Wednesday |
26 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Meeting Room Carrickfergus Library |
Belfast and the Slave Trade |
Roddy Hegarty Federation for Ulster Local Studies |
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|
| December |
Wednesday |
3 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
To be announced |
Historical Society Christmas Dinner Party |
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| |
Wednesday |
3 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
To be arranged |
Christmas in the Ards Long Ago |
Hugh Robinson |
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| |
Friday |
5 |
8:00 p.m. |
O'Neill Country Historical Society |
The Bantry BARD (midway off the road from Eglish to Caledon |
Gaeilge Thir Eoghain i measc chanúintí na Gaeilge-Tyrone: Irish among other dialects |
Talk in English by Dr. Art J Hughes |
Evening of Traditional music |
|   |
Monday |
15 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Sights gone and going in Lecale and beyond - a photographer looks around him |
Alan Johnston |
£2.00 |
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| January 2009 |
Wednesday |
14 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards |
North Down men in the Great War |
Lester Morrow |
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| |
Monday |
19 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
The Importance of being Wilde - The Wildes of Downpatrick |
Maurice Cassidy |
£2.00 |
| |
Wednesday |
28 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Dobbs Room, Town Hall, Carrickfergus |
Annual General Meeting |
Presentation of members treasures |
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|
| February |
Wednesday |
11 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards |
Irish Polar Explorers |
Noel Mitchel |
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| |
Monday |
16 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
The Belfast & County Down Railway - Its rebirth in Downpatrick |
Gerry Cochrane |
£2.00 |
| |
Wednesday |
25 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Dobbs Room, Town Hall, Carrickfergus |
Black Head and Gobbins Paths |
John Lennon |
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|
| March |
Monday |
9 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Down Cathedral - The St. Patrick's Festival Lecture |
Fred Rankin |
Free |
| |
Wednesday |
11 |
8:00pm |
Ards Historical Society |
Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards |
AGM &, Treasurers in the Home |
Madeline McAllister |
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|   |
Wednesday |
25 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Dobbs Room, Town Hall, Carrickfergus |
Beleek Pottery |
Trevor Rankin A keen collector |
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| April |
Monday |
20 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
The Coastal Archaeology of Strangford Lough |
Sinead McCartan |
£2.00 |
| |
Wednesday |
29 |
8:00 pm |
Carrickfergus Historical Society |
Dobbs Room, Town Hall, Carrickfergus |
Early Christian Bells and Bell Shrines in Ireland |
Cormac Bourke Curator of Medieval Antiquities at the Ulster Museum |
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| May |
Monday |
18 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Annual General Meeting and members items of interest |
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Nil |
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| June |
Monday |
15 |
7:30pm |
Lecale Historical Society |
Start - Down County Museum |
Annual Outing - Guided walk around Downpatrick |
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Free |
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