Old Drogheda
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| Willie Healy, Organist, Our Lady of Lourdes Church circa 1957 |
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/30/2014
Pic of the Day @ 30 September 2014
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
" Oh What a Lovely War - How Should We Remember the First World War"?
Old Drogheda
Society
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)
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/29/2014
Pic of the Day @ 29 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-98330979/28/2014
Pic of the Day @ 28 September
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Holcroft Cast Iron Cooking Pot |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-98330979/27/2014
Pic of the Day @ 27 September 2014.
Old Drogheda
Society
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
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| Holcroft cast iron frying pan |
9/26/2014
Pic of the Day @ 26 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Early Electric Coffee Grinder |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/25/2014
Pic of the Day @ 25 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Small Skillet iron |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
Tonight's Lecture Cancelled
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.
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/24/2014
Pic of the Day @ 24 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Griddle Pan |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
Reminder of Tonight's ODS Lecture
Old Drogheda
Society
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.
Tonight's lecture is open to all and a book stall will operate.
Have a Listen
Have a Look
Buy a book!
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/23/2014
Pic of the Day @ 23 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Twig Broom |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097How Censors Worked: A Comparative History
Old Drogheda Society
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.
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/22/2014
Pic of the Day @ 22 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Sewing Machine |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097Serving God and Mammon
Old Drogheda Society
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.
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/21/2014
Pic of the Day @ 21 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/20/2014
Pic of the Day @ 20 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Boardroom chair of Irish Oil and Cake Mill |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-98330979/19/2014
Pic of the Day @ 19 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Certificate of Society of Bricklayers |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097Reminder: Lecture on Dean Anthony Cogan
Old Drogheda
Society
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.
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/18/2014
Pic of the day @ 18 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Old Cement Ltd Workforce |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-98330979/17/2014
Pic of the Day @ 17 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Prominent Irish Clerical leaders assemble for 1970s Peace March |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
9/16/2014
Pic of the Day @ 16 September 2014
Old Drogheda
Society
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| Cardinal D'Alton @ Lourdes Church |
Old Drogheda Society - History,
Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097Lecture: Dean Anthoy Cogan
Old Drogheda
Society
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.
Bookstall on night.
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage
Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
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