Kildare County Council is inviting applications for two funding opportunities under the 2023 County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Programme. Kildare Decade of Commemorations Community Heritage Grant Scheme The County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Community Heritage Grant Scheme is open for applications to individuals, groups and organisations in County Kildare that…
Some images taken from the Society’s annual outing 2022, which was to Jerpoint Abbey in Co Kilkenny.
A new Royal Irish Academy local history research fund has been announced by Minister Martin as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme The Decade of Centenaries bursary scheme has been established to encourage and support new local research and local history studies in meaningful examination of local, regional, and…
Kildare County Council has published details of 17 separate grants and award opportunities to support the development and presentation of creative and artistic projects in the county this year. Applications will be accepted from both solo artists, collectives and community groups. Full details of the eligibility criteria are available through…
The Local Studies, Genealogy and Archives department of Kildare County Council’s Kildare Library Service is delighted to announce that it has received a substantial donation of archival material from the family and executors of the estate of the late Grattan de Courcy Wheeler (1947-2020) of Drummin House, Derrinturn, Carbury, Co….
The minute books of Kildare County Council from 1899-1939 have been digitised and are now available on the new Kildare Library Service website at www.kildare.ie/Library to coincide with Explore Your Archive 2021, an annual campaign that showcases the best of archives and archive services in Ireland and the UK. ‘The…
This journal of a middle-size tenant farmer, a rare survivor from nineteenth-century Ireland, is in the possession of the Holt family of Coolavacoose, Carbury, County Kildare. Neither a personal diary nor a full account book, it mostly records expenditure on labourers on the Holts’ farm at Coolavacoose but also features…
The Follies Trust have organised lectures on Thursday 28 October and Thursday 25 November at 7.30pm. They are being held on zoom as a webinar with a limited number of people can attend St David’s church in person. We are indebted to St David’s for hosting these events – to…
