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NIPR Publication Resource: Latest acquisitions list

Speakers and Tour Guides: Update No 9 (April 2012) The information in this Updates has been incorporated in the main Register. Additions – Speakers NAME LOCATION CONTACT INFORMATION SUBJECT O’Hagan, Kevin Ahoghill 07749180237 koh119@btinternet.com -The Iron Ore and Bauxite Mines of Mid-Antrim -The Benn Family of Belfast and Glenravel -Historical Highlights of the Village of…

FLHS and FULS Joint Visit to York City and North Yorkshire: 23rd to 27th April 2012 by Larry Breen, FLHS This year’s joint event took over fifty local historians from all over the country to the historic city of York and its hinterland. All the travellersThere were representatives from Naas, Athy, Rathcoffey, Rathmichael, Enniscoe, Knocklyn,…

Titanic Trip (7 July) programme and Booking Form

THE HISTORY FESTIVAL OF IRELAND, CARLOW: 9 JUNE 2012 by Larry Breen, FLHS FULS AND FLHS PROMINENT AT THE FIRST EVER HISTORY FESTIVAL The recent Festival of History held in County Carlow proved to be a great success. The event conceived and organised in conjunction with Eigse and the Carlow Arts Festival by Turtle Bunbury,…

Here are some of Doreen’s McBride’s photographs of the event.

Federation of Local History Societies and Federation for Ulster Local Studies blaze the Titanic Trail. 7 JULY 2012 by Larry Breen, FLHS The 2012 joint exchange visit between the two federations saw a large group of almost eighty people meet in Belfast for the annual joint event. The first port of call was the Ulster…

NIPR Publication Resource: Latest acquisitions list

The National Library Project February-May 2012 by Pádraig Laffan, FLHS Have you ever thought how great it would be to walk along by the Liffey with your grandchild and to be able to say to them “I helped build that bridge”? Well, a great bunch of volunteers has done something just like that and about…

Ulster History Trust Conference Commemorations; Inspiration or Challenge? Brochure here