Dublin City Library & Archive

Maritime Dublin – Heritage Seminar – Exhibition & Lectures

Saturday 25 August 2012 2.00 – 4.30 p.m.

Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Exhibition:

• Launch of the newly digitised manuscript from the Gilbert Library, Dublin City Library and Archive:
  Diary of the weather and winds for 19 years, 1716 – 1734. Exactly observed and taken at the City of Dublin.

• Maritime Dublin: an exhibition of maps relating to the River Liffey, Dublin Bay and the East Coast
  from The Cartouche Collection of Leslie Brown & David Brown

Lectures:

• 2.00 – 2.45: “Pleasant with Flying Clouds”: A Weather Eye on Dublin in the 1700s – Eithne Massey, Dublin City Public Libraries
• 2.45 – 3.30: “The like not known in the memory of man”: Isaac Butler’s contribution to weather recording in Ireland, 1716–1755 – Alan Smyth, Trinity College Dublin
• 3.30 – 4.15: The Corsican Defence: The story of restored Martello Tower No.7, Killiney Bay – Pól Ó Duibhir

Admission Free. Booking Essential. – - dublinpubliclibraries@dublincity.ie / – - Tel: 01 6744806 / 6744800