9/30/2014

Pic of the Day @ 30 September 2014



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Willie Healy, Organist, Our Lady of Lourdes Church circa 1957

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" Oh What a Lovely War - How Should We Remember the First World War"?



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OLD DROGHEDA SOCIETY / DROGHEDA MUSEUM MILLMOUNT 20th ANNUAL John Boyle O'Reilly AUTUMN SCHOOL

 

" Oh What a Lovely War - How Should We Remember the First World War?"

 

Sun 19 Oct 2014 10am-5.30pm  Cost €20 (including light lunch)

 

Venue - The Conference Centre Drogheda Museum

 

The First World War was one of the most appalling events in human history, with over 16 million dead (9 million combatants and 7 million civilians). How should we remember this war? Should we 
commemorate it or look back on it with horror, shame and anger?

 

This year's Annual Old Drogheda Society's John Boyle O'Reilly Autumn School looks at this 

controversial question with fresh eyes and the results of new innovative research, both national and local. With a panel of internationally renowned expert speakers and some fascinating new local information from the Millmount Research Unit, an enthralling day is guaranteed!

 

PAPERS

Brian Hanley: World War One and Ireland: look back in anger.

 

Noted historian Dr. Brian Hanley is the author of The IRA, 1926-1936 (2000), The IRA: A Documentary History, 1919-2005 (2010) and with Scott Millar, The Lost Revolution (2010) He teaches history at University College Dublin.

 

Seán Corcoran: The Dead of Drogheda Arise – local impact of the First World War.

 

Seán Corcoran, Chairperson of the Old Drogheda Society and a Director of Drogheda Museum, looks at the impact of the war on the town and the social background of those who died. 

 

Mary Muldowney: Overcoming barriers of class and gender: The experience of Irish women 
workers during the First World War.

 

Dr. Mary Muldowney is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Contemporary History in Trinity College Dublin and a founding member of the Oral History Network of Ireland. She has also published on the involvement of women workers in the Irish railway industry and other labour history subjects. Mary is a member of the National Consultation Panel on Cultural Heritage and Global Change for the Heritage Council.

 

Philip Orr: The First World War and Unionist memory

 

Historian, writer and playwright, Phillip Orr is widely regarded as the definitive authority on the  development of Unionist identity. His work has been described by Professor Joe Lee as “Masterly and moving ..”. His publications include the bestselling The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story (Belfast 1987) and Field of Bones: An Irish Division at Gallipoli (2006).

 

Francis Devine: James Connolly and the Irish Neutrality League

 

Francis Devine is a historian, poet and singer who for many years was Director of Education for the trade union SIPTU. He has written and lectured extensively on the history of the Irish labour movement and his publications include Organising History: A Centenary of SIPTU (2009) and A capital in conflict: Dublin city and the 1913 Lockout (editor 2013). This paper reveals new research on a forgotten moment in the history of 1914 Ireland and throws an interesting light on current debates on Irish neutrality.

 

Brendan Matthews and Liz King: A Local Commercial Scheme to Collect Wild Medicinal Herbs for Use in the War

 

Brendan Matthews is an archivist at Drogheda Museum and a renowned community historian. Liz King is a full time oral historian with the Local Voices Centre in Drogheda Museum. This paper tells the story of a local commercial project to collect wild medicinal herbs to make up for the shortage of medicines on the battlefields. 

 

Advance booking is essential phone 041-9833097 or e-mail info@droghedamuseum.ie . Cost is €20 per person (includes light lunch)

 



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9/29/2014

Pic of the Day @ 29 September 2014


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Cast Iron Cooking Pot With Handle
 
 
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9/28/2014

Pic of the Day @ 28 September


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Holcroft Cast Iron Cooking Pot
 
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9/27/2014

Pic of the Day @ 27 September 2014.


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Holcroft cast iron frying pan

9/26/2014

Pic of the Day @ 26 September 2014

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Early Electric Coffee Grinder
 
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9/25/2014

Pic of the Day @ 25 September 2014


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Small Skillet iron
 
 
 
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Tonight's Lecture Cancelled


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Orla Sweeney with an announcement of a cancellation of tonight's lecture in Dublin.

We regret to advise that the following public lecture is cancelled:

‘How Censors Worked: A Comparative History’

Robert Darnton, Carl H Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University

Thursday 25  September 2014 at 7pm in the NLI

The cancellation is due to circumstances beyond Prof Darnton’s and the NLI’s control.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
 
 
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9/24/2014

Pic of the Day @ 24 September 2014


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Griddle Pan

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Reminder of Tonight's ODS Lecture



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A reminder that the first of the autumn season of lectures promoted by the Old Drogheda Society takes place tonight, Wednesday October 24th at 8 pm in the Governors House, Millmount.
 
Mary McDonnell, a grandniece of Dean Anthony Cogan will speak on the life and times of noted Meath priest.

Tonight's lecture is open to all and a book stall will operate.

Have a Listen
Have a Look
Buy a book!



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Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097

9/23/2014

Pic of the Day @ 23 September 2014


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Twig Broom




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How Censors Worked: A Comparative History


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As a body concerned with cultivating an accurate historical narrative, the Old Drogheda Society will from time to time come up against attempts to rewrite or suppress historical knowledge.
 
Censorship is the bane of intellectual investigation of both the past and the present. On Thursday evening in the National Library of Ireland, there will be a public lecture, How Censors Worked: A Comparative History.
 
The speaker is Robert Darnton, Carl H Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University. His profile contains the following information. 
  • Robert Darnton was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1960) and Oxford University (B.Phil., 1962; D. Phil., 1964), where he was a Rhodes scholar. After a brief stint as a reporter for The New York Times, he became a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He taught at Princeton from 1968 until 2007, when he became Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. He has been a visiting professor or fellow at many universities and institutes for advanced study, and his outside activities include service as a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press (USA) and terms as president of the American Historical Association and the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Among his honors are a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, election to the French Legion of Honor, the National Humanities Medal conferred by President Obama in February 2012, and the Del Duca World Prize in the Humanities awarded by the Institut de France in 2013. He has written and edited many books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984, probably his most popular work, which has been translated into 18 languages), Berlin Journal, 1989-1990, (1991, an account of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of East Germany), and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995, a study of the underground book trade). His latest books are The Case for Books (2009), The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2009), and Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (2010).
 Booking is essential. 
 

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Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097

9/22/2014

Pic of the Day @ 22 September 2014


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Sewing Machine
 
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Serving God and Mammon


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Event: Lecture: Serving God and Mammon: Medieval Property Deals recorded in the Book of Kells.

Date: 28 September 2014.

Time: 1500/3pm

Speaker: Dr Denis Casey.

Venue: St Columba's Church of Ireland, Kells, Co. Meath.

Host: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
 

 
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9/21/2014

Pic of the Day @ 21 September 2014


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Cot
 
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9/20/2014

Pic of the Day @ 20 September 2014


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Boardroom chair of Irish Oil and Cake Mill
 
 
 
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9/19/2014

Pic of the Day @ 19 September 2014


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Certificate of Society of Bricklayers
 
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Reminder: Lecture on Dean Anthony Cogan


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The first of the autumn season of lectures of the Old Drogheda Society takes place on Wednesday September 24th at 8 pm in the Governors House, Millmount when Mary McDonnell, a grandniece of Dean Anthony Cogan will speak on the life and times of noted Meath priest.

Anthony Coogan was born in Slane 1826, one of five sons and three daughters of baker Thomas Coogan and his wife Ann Sillary, a former Protestant who turned Catholic to marry Thomas.

Anthony went to school locally then attended St Finian’s Seminary in Navan, where he studied for the priesthood, becoming a dean shortly afterwards. Two of his brothers were surgeons in the British Army.

Anthony is noted for for both his academic and humanitarian work. He published three volumes on the history of the Diocese of Meath, the only ecclesiastical history on the churches and graveyards of the diocese. Cogan made great use of an extensive archive, which included manuscript materials from the early 17th century.

He also encouraged the bishops of Ireland to preserve chronicles of their dioceses for future generations He also did a lot of research on priests in the penal days and drew great inspiration from them. Sadly, the archive that he established in Meath does not survive as it was destroyed in 1909.

He spent 15 years as a priest in Navan where he founded the Catholic Young Men’s Society in 1863. He also did a lot of work on behalf of the poor people of Navan, fighting against bigotry and intolerance, working to relieve their squalor and overcrowding. Dean Cogan’s Trojan work was cut short when he died at the age of 45.

Dean Cogan Place in Navan was named after him and the Slane Historical Society have erected a memorial plaque on the wall of his former home, Mimnaghs Shop on Main Street.

Wednesdays lecture is open to all and a book stall will operate on the night.


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Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097

9/18/2014

Pic of the day @ 18 September 2014


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Old Cement Ltd Workforce
 
 
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9/17/2014

Pic of the Day @ 17 September 2014


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Prominent Irish Clerical leaders assemble for 1970s Peace March
 
 
 
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9/16/2014

Pic of the Day @ 16 September 2014


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Cardinal D'Alton @ Lourdes Church
 
 
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Lecture: Dean Anthoy Cogan

 
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Dean Anthony Cogan
 
Priest, Historian and Patriot
 
given by his
 
Great Grandniece
Mary McDonnell
 
 

In the Governor’s House Millmount     

 
 
On Wednesday 24th September 2014 at 8 pm.
         
A Lecture on the Life and Times of Dean Anthony Cogan 1826-1872. Author of the monumental work Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern he lived through the most stirring events in the shaping of modern Ireland – O'Connell’s Repeal Movement, the Famine, Tenant Rights and the beginnings of Home Rule.
 
Bookstall on night.
 
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Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097