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Il Coro Italiano

Il Coro Italiano di Dublino

A Concert of Opera Choruses, Folk songs and Christmas Music, Distinguished Soloists 7.30pm Saturday 1st December 2012 In the Maritime Museum,  Dún Laoghaire Tickets €10

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Dalkey Island Forum

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

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”

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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Lady Nelson, lost on the Skelligs

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

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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Fingalian Privateers in the American Revolutionary War

the personal tales of several of the more notorious Fingalian privateers, whose significant contribution dramatically shaped the naval conflict of the American Revolutionary War in European waters. The most notorious of these privateers originated from the village of Rush, Co. Dublin.

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Maritime Balbriggan and District

Dr Edward Bourke will deliver a talk entitled: “Maritime Balbriggan and District” on Wednesday, 24th October 2012 at 8 p.m. in the Town Hall, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.

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The Irish Flowers’, The acquisition, employment and operational history of the Irish Naval Service Corvettes 1946-1959.

Lecture to be held Thursday, October 18th 2012 in Stella Maris