"The Gathering" Talks and Lectures

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Free Conference Facilitated and Sponsored by Galway County Heritage Office

By David Collins

While this may not be titled Ballinrobe a lot of the information and lectures may be helpful for the local Community.  They may have family, friends or relations living in the Connemara area or may be able to apply or use some of the information for their own family or Gathering this year.

Details below and all are very welcome.

 

Connemara’s Hidden Heritage

Friday 26th and Saturday 27th April 2013

Venue: Church of Ireland, Oughterard

 

Friday 26 th April 2013

9.30am-10.00am Registration

10.00am-10.15am Official Opening by Cllr. Tomas Welby, Mayor of the County of Galway

10.15am-11.00am “Exploring the Geological Heritage of Connemara” by Prof. Martin Feely

11.00am-11.15 am Coffee

11.15am-12.00 noon “The Early History of Oughterard (A Hanoverian Fort on the Irish Frontier)” by Michael Gibbons

12.00 noon – 12.45pm “The Engineering Heritage of Connemara” by Paul Duffy

12.45pm-1.00pm Questions and Answer Session

1.00pm-2.00pmLunch

2.00pm- 2.45pm “300 Years of Connemara Gardening Heritage” by Breandan O Scanaill

2.45pm-3.30pm “Connemara Local History Sources available in Island House Library” by Maureen Moran

3.30pm-3.45pm Questions and Answers

3.45pm-4.00pm Coffee

4.00pm Finish

Saturday 27 th April 2013

9.30am-10.00am Registration

10.00am-10.15am - Official Opening by Cllr. Tomas Welby, Mayor of the County of Galway

10.15am-11.00am “Archival Sources in Galway County Council Archives” by Patria McWalter

11.00am-11.15am Coffee

11.15am-12.00 noon "Connemara Landed Estates: evidence from the Irish Landed Estates database" by Marie Boran

12.00 noon – 12.45pm ‘From Poverty to Prosperity: Emigration from Connemara in the Nineteenth century’ by Dr. Gerard Moran

12.45pm-1.00pm Questions and Answer Session

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm- 2.45pm “Soupers and Jumpers, the Protestant missions in Connemara, 1848-193” by Dr. Miriam Moffitt

2.45pm-3.30pm “Connemara emerging to modernity” by Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill

3.30pm-4.15pm “Oughterard Heritage on the web” by Dave Collins

4.15pm-4.30pm Questions and Answers

4.30pm-4.45pm Coffee

4.45pm Finish

 

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