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‘Courtmacsherry RNLI: 200 years of saving lives at sea’ by Micheál Hurley, Jim Crowley and Diarmuid O’Mahony (Courtmacsherry RNLI) & ‘A brief history of the Irish Coast Guard – 1822-2024’ by Niall Ferns (Irish Coast Guard)

GAA Pavilion Clonakilty Clonakilty

To mark the bi-centenary of both the RNLI and the Irish Coast Guard, our next event will feature the following joint lectures. The RNLI was founded by Sir William Hillary in 1824. The Courtmacsherry RNLI Lifeboat Station along with the RNLI Lifeboat Station at Arklow were the first to be set up in Ireland in […]

The Gallipoli Campaign, A Lost Opportunity of the Great War

Temperance Hall Kinsale

On Thursday next, April 25th at 8pm, Padraig Walsh presents a lecture on The Gallipoli Campaign at the Temperance Hall, Kinsale. Hosted by Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society, Padraig is set to tell the story of another lost opportunity on the ancient hills of the Dardanelles in 1915 to put an end to the Great War […]

‘Allmans of Bandon, a century of distilling’ with Tom Brennan

Kilbrittan Parish Hall Kilbrittan

Kilbrittain History Society Lecture One of Bandon's most iconic buildings - Allmans Bandon Distillery is located near Bandon Mart. Founded in the 1820s by James C. Allman, it was converted from a cotton mill into a whiskey distillery. The presentation will explore the Allman's Distillery story from the Overton Cotton Mill near the Bridewell tributary […]