23rd April, 8:00 pm The inside story of the UK’s largest, most complicated and most expensive shipwreck and the ensuing salvage operations. Lecturer: Robin Middleton CBE, former Secretary of State Representative of the United Kingdom, who took all the pivotal decisions during the disaster. Admission: € 10. For bookings contact the Maritime Museum ph: 01…
Lecture on Shackleton’s ENDURANCE expeditions of 1914-17 will be held in the Stella Maris Club, Bersford Place, Dublin.1 @ 8p.m. Entrance: recommended donation of 5 EURO per person. All welcome.
on Thursday 21st February at 8.00 pm in Stella Maris
Joe Varley will deliver a lecture entitled
Smuggling
LECTURE: “GEORGES STREET RE-PHOTOGRAPHED – PHOTOGRAPHS FROM 1890 ONWARDS – RE-PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2012” BY TOM CONLON – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20th. AT 8 PM
Ernest Shackleton, one of Ireland’s great polar explorers from the early twentieth century This talk will be delivered on board the Jeannie Johnston, Wednesday 5 December 2012 at 8pm by Jonathan Shackleton, historian and guide This talk delves into his family background and the growth of his reputation through his four expeditions to Antarctica. To…
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 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
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
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…
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…
