Castletown Winter Lecture Series 2011-12
The Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates (CSHIHE), in association with the OPW, is pleased to announce details of the Castletown Winter Lecture Series, 2011-12:
LECTURE 1 Wednesday, 5 October 2011 8.00 pm
- Emer Crooke (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
- ‘A subject for the crowbar’: The offer of Bishopscourt, Co. Kildare, to the State, 1966-71
- ADMISSION FEE: €5 payable at the door
LECTURE 2 Wednesday, 2 November 2011 8.00 pm
- Suzanne Pegley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
- Lucan House, A Palladian Villa
- ADMISSION FEE: €5 payable at the door
LECTURE 3 Wednesday, 7 December 2011 8.00 pm
- Karol Mullaney-Dignam (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
- ‘The residence of true Irish hospitality’: social life at Castletown in the late eighteenth century
- This lecture will be followed by the launch of Karol Mullaney-Dignam’s Music and dancing at Castletown, Co. Kildare, 1759-1821. (Published by Four Courts Press as part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History Series edited by Raymond Gillespie.)
- NO ADMISSION FEE
LECTURE 4 Wednesday, 1 February 2012 8.00 pm
- Patrick Walsh (University College London)
- From Dongan to Conolly: Castletown and the making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy
- ADMISSION FEE: €5 payable at the door
LECTURE 5 Wednesday, 7 March 2012 8.00 pm
- Terence Dooley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
- ‘In this black dog haunted place.’ The life of Hermione, 5th Duchess of Leinster, at Carton, Co. Kildare, 1884-1895
- ADMISSION FEE: €5 payable at the door
Lectures will be held in the newly restored Stable Wing at Castletown
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No booking required but seats will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis on the night of each lecture.
- Payment by cash or cheque only.
- Patrons are requested to be seated by 7.50pm.
- Join us for tea/coffee after each lecture.
