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Seamens' Memorial

The Annual National Commemoration Services For Irish Seafarers

Nov 25th

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The Annual National Commemoration Services For Irish Seafarers will be held in Cork and in Dublin on Sunday 25thNovember 2012, click for details

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Dalkey Island Forum

Nov 24th

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Dr Neill Brady, The Archaeological Diving Company: ‘The Archaeology of Dalkey Island’
Dr Edel Bhreathnach, Michael O’Cleirigh Institute UCD : ‘St Begnet and Dalkey’s early Christian heritage’
Jason Bolton, Conservation Consultant: ‘Conservation of the architectural heritage of the Dalkey Islands’
Darina Tully, Maritime Archaeologist: ‘Dalkey as a Maritime Cultural Landscape’

A World War One Sailor in Fingal

WW1 – Royal Navy Burials in Fingal

Nov 22nd

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A talk entitled “Rush – Our Silent and Forgotten Guests” will discuss World War One Royal Navy Burials in Fingal. will be delivered by David Grundy in the Strand Bar, Rush, County Dublin on Thursday 22nd November 2012 at 8pm. All Welcome

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Lecture on “Captain Bligh”

Nov 20th

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Captain Bligh is the topic of the next lecture organised by the Dublin Bay Old Gaffers Association, to be held in the Poolbeg Yacht & Boat Club, Dublin Port on 20 November. The illustrated talk (8pm) is to be presented by Sean Cullen, Senior Hydrographer with INFOMAR

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Crazy Bingo Night

Nov 17th

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With Drag Queen Annie Balls
Saturday 17th November 2012
The Sallynoggin Inn
Doors Open @ 8.00pm
€10.00 to include 5 games of Bingo
Will you be lucky to win a money prize or a Booby prize!
Tickets available from The Sallynoggin Off – License or Maritime Museum
Proudly Sponsored by the Sallynoggin Inn
Contact: Tara/ Katie: 01 214394

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Lady Nelson, lost on the Skelligs

Nov 15th

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They say that Port Wine from the Lady Nelson is still available in a pub in Killarney.  The Lady Nelson was lost on Skellig Rock on 14 October 1809.  In a lecture sponsored by the Maritime Institute of Ireland, Jim Robertson will relate her story and give an account of the trade with Spain at…

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Lady Nelson and the peoples of Lady Nelson

Nov 14th

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A lecture sponsored by the Killiney &  Ballybrack Historical Society will be delivered by Jim Robinson on Wed 14 November at 8pm in the Graduate pub in the Killiney Shopping Center, Rochestown Avenue.  Lady Nelson and the peoples of Lady Nelson  (A ship trading from Dublin to Spain wrecked on the Sceligs) An admission fee…

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Warships, U-boats & Liners

Nov 13th

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A book entitled “Warships, U-boats & Liners” has just been published. Over the last 12 years the GSI and Marine Institute INFOMAR project, and its predecessor the Irish National Seabed Survey, mapped the seabed of Irish waters. It was the largest civilian marine mapping programme worldwide. At the same time the UAU used their results…