Lectures/Walks/Outings – 2018
27th Edition of our Journal now available
Please note that Annual Membership Subscriptions are due on January 1st
Single €10:00 Family €15:00 Retired/Unwaged €8:00 Retired Family €12:00
Lectures take place in The Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire at 8 p.m.
Admission Fee : €3.00
In 2018 the Society celebrates its 40th Anniversary, founded in April 1978. We have hosted 40 years of lectures/walks and annual outings. This year we have produced the 27th edition of our history journal, containing social and built history of Dun Laoghaire and its environs.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Heritage Week-Guided Walk by Alice Cullen
“Dalkey Town & Coastal Walk”
Meet at the RC church car park at 7 p.m.
Wednesday 19th September
“The Sinking of the Leinster”
Speaker: Cormac Lowth
Sun 23rd – Tues 25th September
Three Day Outing to Limerick and its environs.
Organiser: Maria Hayes.
Wednesday 17th October
“Watsons Nursery, Clontarf to Killiney 1884-1967”
Speaker: Bernadine Ruddy.
Wednesday 21st November
“Pre-Famine Dublin – A Calamity Waiting to Happen”
Speaker: Vincent Ruddy.
Wednesday 5th December
“The Building of the Kish Lighthouse” (DVD) and some of the history of the Kish Bank.
We have a Facebook page – Dun Laoghaire Borough Historical Society – please sign up to view all our activities.
To contact the Federation of Local History Societies, go to – www.localhistory.ie – to view all the activities
Book Stall available at all our meetings
Street History /Kingstown – Dun Laoghaire, Carrickbrennan Graveyard, Pavilion, Glasthule Book, Artists & Writers of the Borough – all at €6:00
Some back issues available at reduced rate – €3:00, secure some of the journals you are missing. Post and packaging: – Ireland €2:50 UK & rest of the world €4:00.
.Hon Sec: Anna Scudds, 7 Northumberland Park, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. PH:(01)2806213 not after 9pm local time.