A lecture by Arnold Horner in honour of the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer. A lecture by Arnold Horner in honour of the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer, who died on 15 November 2019. With a short response by Keith…
Overview This seminar sets out to explore the experience of Southern Protestants between 1900 and 1923, and how they ‘became strangers’ in the newly established and very Catholic Free State. Accounting for 10% of the population of what would become the Free State in the 1911 census, their numbers declined…
The recent conservation work, undertaken by the Follies Trust to the two pyramid mausolea in Maudlins burial ground, Naas, is almost complete. The scaffolding is down and the doors have been delivered to a blacksmith to undertake the final conservation work. As you may be aware the Society contributed a small…
The Society is saddened to mark the passing of the Hon Desmond Guinness. He was an active member and Council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society for many years. His contribution to heritage and conservation issues in County Kildare and beyond were significant, particularly in his role as co-founder…
Once again Heritage Week has come around; normally CKAS would have an event but Covid-19 means that we are far from ‘normal’. However Heritage Week is proceeding albeit in different and interesting forms mainly online but with some limited ‘in-person’ events. Therefore I thought I might take this opportunity to…
When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland, England and Wales. Drawn from…
While there may be no actual CKAS events taking place during the CoVID-19 emergency, you can still get your history fix by accessing podcasts on the History Ireland portal – www.historyireland.com/podcast. You can also subscribe via your own preferred podcast programme.
As part of the recent relaxing of some of the Covid-19 restrictions the situation has been reviewed, with the possibility of reactivating the 2020 programme of events. However given that the safety and wellbeing of our members is of utmost importance, together with the practicalities of holding a socially distant…
As part of Newbridge, Co Kildare’s June Fest’s online festival, Dr Conor Morrissey will deliver a talk via Facebook Live on Tuesday, 26 May at 8.00.pm. It may be accessed by logging on to the June Fest Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/junefestnewbridge/ From the late 19th century, until the end of the…
On Friday 13th March 2020 the Co Kildare Archaelogical Society cancelled all events and talks for the foreseeable future (see here) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With Ireland on lockdown, many historical societies did the same. But, what to do? Many people wanted to continue, in some form, lectures…
