20th Annual John Boyle O'Reilly Autumn School: Revised Timetable

Old Drogheda Society
 

OLD DROGHEDA SOCIETY / DROGHEDA MUSEUM

20^th ANNUAL JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY AUTUMN SCHOOL

SUN 19^th OCT 2014

 

Revised Timetable

 

 

10:00                 Coffee and registration

 

10:30 - 11:15       Brian Hanley       World War One and Ireland: look back in anger.

11:15 - 12:00        Phillip Orr             Unionism and the Great War

12:00 - 12:45       Brendan Matthews   Kill or Cure – A Local Commercial Scheme to Collect Wild Medicinal Herbs for Use in the War (Researched by Liz King & Brendan Matthews)

 

LUNCH  12:45 – 2:00

 

2:00 – 2:45          Mary Muldowney Overcoming barriers of class and gender: The experience of Irish women workers during the First World War.

2:45 - 3:30           Francis Devine   James Connolly and the Irish Neutrality League

3:30 - 4:15           Seán Corcoran   The Dead of Drogheda Arise – local impact of the First World War.

 

4:15 - 5:00           Open Forum

 

Cost is €20 ( including light lunch in Tower Restaurant) €10 for lectures only

Booking essential to info@droghedamuseum.ie or phone 041-9833097 

Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage

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