See what's on in Societies over the next Programme year. To add your programme, send or email a copy to the Federation.
| Month |
Day |
Date |
Time |
Society |
Location |
Event |
Speaker |
Visitor's Fee |
| September |
Monday |
17 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
The Cuan, Strangford |
Strangford - portrait of a village [book launch] |
by Colm Rooney |
£2.00 |
| |
Tuesday |
18 |
8:00pm |
Coleraine Historical Society |
Guide Hall behind Terrace Row Presbyterian Church |
The Cloth Workers |
Alison McCaughan |
|
| |
Monday |
24 |
8:00pm |
Ulster Archaeological Society |
Lecture Theatre, School of Geography, Archaeology and Paleoecology, QUB, Elmwood Building, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast
|
A Tale of five sites - Deciphering the archaeological histories of Goodlends, Co Antrim from the neolithic to the 18th century |
Audrey Horning |
|
|
| October |
Tuesday |
2 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
St. Colm's High School |
The local impact of the potato |
Jim McAdam |
|
| |
Monday |
8 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
Ulster's Home Guard |
David Orr |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
| |
Monday |
15 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Four thousand lives lost - The enquiries of Lord Mersey |
Dr Alastair Walker |
£2.00 |
| |
Tuesday |
16 |
8:00pm |
Coleraine Historical Society |
Guide Hall behind Terrace Row Presbyterian Church |
What was pre-Plantation Ulster Really Like? |
Roddy Hegarty |
|
| |
Monday |
29 |
8:00pm |
Ulster Archaeological Society |
Lecture Theatre, School of Geography, Archaeology and Paleoecology, QUB, Elmwood Building, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast
|
The archaeology of witchcraft and superstition in Ireland |
Roisin O'Reilly |
|
|
| November |
Tuesday |
6 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
St. Colm's High School |
Local Place Names |
Neil Comer |
|
| |
Monday |
12 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
The Ulster Covenant |
Gordon Lucy |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
|
Tuesday |
16 |
8:00pm |
Coleraine Historical Society |
Guide Hall behind Terrace Row Presbyterian Church |
Members Night |
To be arranged |
|
| |
Monday |
19 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Launch of Lecale Review (No. 10) |
With musical entertainment and light supper |
£2.00 |
| |
Monday |
29 |
8:00pm |
Ulster Archaeological Society |
Lecture Theatre, School of Geography, Archaeology and Paleoecology, QUB, Elmwood Building, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast
|
The economic and socia; value of the historic environment in Northern Ireland |
Brian Williams |
|
|
| December |
Tuesday |
4 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
St. Colm's High School |
Stay small. dige deep - a life in local history |
Joe Mahon |
|
| |
Monday |
10 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
The Gordon Bowsie Christmas Quiz |
The annual 'end of year' quiz night |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
| |
Monday |
10 |
8:00pm |
Ulster Archaeological Society |
Lecture Theatre, School of Geography, Archaeology and Paleoecology, QUB, Elmwood Building, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast
|
A unique Middle Bronze Age cemetery at Oakgrove Co. Londonderry |
Robert Chapple |
|
| |
Monday |
10 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Maghera CoI Parish Church, Corrigs Road, Newcastle |
A life in Songs and Stories - the works of Percy French |
The Percy French Society |
£2.00 |
|
| January 2013 |
Tuesday |
8 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
St. Colm's High School |
Ballinascreen on film - archive filme from the past |
|
|
| |
Monday |
14 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
Memners Night |
Bring interesting objects, family research, old stories etc |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
| |
Tuesday |
15 |
8:00pm |
Coleraine Historical Society |
Guide Hall behind Terrace Row Presbyterian Church |
Our Daily Bread |
Shaun Esler |
|
| |
Monday |
21 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Looking after precious objects |
Madeline McAllister |
£2.00 |
|
| February |
Tuesday |
5 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
St. Colm's High School |
The impact of the Plantation on the local landscape |
Heather Thompson |
|
| |
Monday |
11 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
The History of Cregagh |
Aidan Campbell |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
| |
Monday |
18 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
The decade that defined a Century |
John Killen |
£2.00 |
| |
Tuesday |
19 |
8:00pm |
Coleraine Historical Society |
Guide Hall behind Terrace Row Presbyterian Church |
The Ulster Crisis in the Coleraine Area |
Robert Corbett |
|
|
| March |
Tuesday |
6 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
St. Colm's High School |
"The tale of two Drapers'tpwns" - architecture, growth and development |
Keith Gilmore |
|
| |
Monday |
11 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
History of Moneyreagh Non-Subscribibg Presbyterian Church |
Sandra Gilpin |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
| |
Monday |
11 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Subduing the Light - Irish Stained Glass |
Colin Hatrick |
Free |
| |
Tuesday |
19 |
8:00pm |
Coleraine Historical Society |
Guide Hall behind Terrace Row Presbyterian Church |
Growing up in a Country Shop in Donegal |
Pearl Hutchinson |
|
|
| April |
Tuesday |
2 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
Rath Dubh Hall, Moneyneena |
Bygone days on the farm |
Fred Faulkner |
|
| |
Monday |
8 |
8:00pm |
Carryduff Historical Society |
Committee Room, Moss Centre |
The Annual General Meeting |
There will be a local guest speaker |
£2.00 - Voluntary |
| |
Monday |
15 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
The Second Survey of Northern Ireland |
Alastair Coey |
£2.00 |
|
| May |
Tuesday |
7 |
8:00pm |
Ballinascreen Historical Society |
Literary evening at The Shepherd's Rest |
William Catleton |
Jack Johnston |
|
| |
Monday |
20 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Annual general Meeting |
and members' items of interest |
£2.00 |
|
| June |
Monday |
17 |
7:30pm |
Lecale & Downe Historical Society |
Down County Museum |
Annual Outing |
Details to follow |
£2.00 |
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