Bury Quay, Tullamore, Co. Offaly Telephone: 057-9321421
Opening hours 9-4.30 Mon-Friday office and family history
Thursdays 7.30p.m.- 10.30 p.m. Library evening
Web site: www.offalyhistory.com Email: info@offalyhistory.com
November 2014 Newsletter
Lectures and Events
Darrell Hooper on Simple and practical use of PowerPoint
in your history presentations
Thursday 13th November at 8pm
at the Offaly History Centre, Bury Quay, Tullamore – part of the Thursday history Club series. Free
Offaly Annual Heritage Seminar.
Saturday 15th November heritage@offalycoco.ie for details. Progamme on Facebook and being sent by email. The venue for the talks is Birr. Bus leaving Bury Quay at 9:20 - 9:30am Download the booklet here
Margaret Hogan on the Third earl of Rosse
Monday 17 November at 8pm
at the Offaly History Centre,
Tea/coffee after the meeting. Members €2. Non-members €5.
Buildings of Ireland Symposium
Sat 22 November 2014,
A forthcoming seminar day (November 22) has been planned to explore and celebrate the Buildings of Ireland (Pevsner) series which you may be able to attend or recommend to others. For all interested in architecture this should be a most interesting day.
Michael Byrne on the Adams v Graham North King’s County by-election of December 1914
Thursday 18 December,
Fireside Offaly History Club night,
CHRISTMAS DRAW
We ask members to please support the Christmas draw again this year. This has been very successful in the past. Proceeds go towards supporting lecture expenses throughout the year which run at about €250 per lecture. Please do your best in selling the tickets.
Harman Murtagh, President of the Military History Society of Ireland on Ireland and the First World War. Christmas lecture and party Friday 5 December 8pm
Offaly History Centre,
Booking essential. Tickets to include light supper and refreshments are €12. Booking is limited so collect your ticket at Offaly History/ring or email to book.
Rex Ingram
Celebrating Rex Ingram (otherwise Hitchcock), son of the local rector and who left Kinnitty for New York in 1911 and went on to become a famous film maker. On Thursday 11 December we have Ruth Barton on Rex Ingram, the Kinnitty born film maker. Her new book will receive an Offaly launch.
Books for Christmas at our Centre and at Local Book Shops
Special offers Why not call. 10% and more discount for members. For surprise give aways see our Facebook site and web.
We have a number of new publications this year which you might like to give as a present to a friend. Why not call. These include the books listed below including
Ciaran Reilly’s Land agent in County Offaly,
The Fergal MacCabe exhibition catalogue,
The Lions Club Annual for Tullamore number 3
which will be available after 28 November and Amanda Pedlow’s book on
100 quirky facts stories about Co. Offaly.
Congratulations to the contributors and writers of this year’s crop of publications making Offaly one of the best researched counties in Ireland – in recent years.
If you would like to help with the work of the Society by coming on a sub-committee or in some other way please email us or let an existing member know.
The balance of Committee meetings for 2014 are as follows :- note revised dates for the four meetings to year end: 23 October and 20 November.
We are planning a month ahead for new material so get in soon and have you say with a world-wide audience. Offaly History now has almost 1,700 friends on Facebook and 600 on Twitter while the web is a permanent home for research material. We now reach up to 20,000 visits each week.
Library Night every Thursday night from 7.30 to 10.30pm.
Remember we have 15,000 history books to read and all good for Irish History and many new digital titles. We have local newspapers from 1831.
Joining the Society for the rest of 2014 and for 2015
Your subscription to the Society is appreciated. The subscription rates remain the same as in previous years. A standing order is preferred in ease of administration. You can also pay using the Paypal facility on our website.
Membership Rates
Individuals and families: €30
Overseas member: €30
Corporate subscription: €75
Friend of Offaly History: €100
Life membership: €500; Students (vouched) €5 and by email only
Email addresses please. You can send it to info@offalyhistory.com.
NEW BOOKS
A Sunny Day Near Mexico Terry Adams
is now available at Offaly History Centre
With Poems from Home
This new book of essays on The third Earl of Rosse is available to members at the Society shop at €60 – usual price is €85. Why not buy it on the night of 17 November. Only a few copies in stock.
2014-15 Lecture and Events Programme at Offaly History Centre Tullamore
All lectures commence at 8pm
Monday 19 January Paula Lalor on "Queen Victoria's visits to Ireland,
1849,1853, 1861, a view from the Country House".
Monday 16 February James Lytttleton on the The Jacobean Plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly:
an archaeology of a changing world which looks at the impact of the plantations on a number of Gaelic lordships in west and south Offaly, and how buildings like tower houses, fortified houses and churches can provide insights into the lifeways of the natives and planters who lived through these tumultuous times. The lecture will be based on Dr Lyttleton’s book published in 2013 and will be given a formal Offaly launch. This lecture will be held in Banagher to promote the subject and the history of West Offaly.
Monday 23 March James Scully "The Grand Canal in Offaly 1794 - 1804."
2014-15 is the bicentenary of the connection from the Liffey with the Shannon. The talk will be based on contemporary sources, primary and secondary but mostly on the Grand Canal Minute Books.
Monday 20 April Professor David Dickson of TCD on: 'The rise and rise of Dublin
1600-2000: A Midlands perspective'
