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Know Your Locality – Kildare – April 2021

Webmaster March 31, 2021 September 22, 2023Non KAS Events, Non KAS News

It is amazing what you can discover about your local area from the snug safety of your home. We are delighted, through funding from Kildare County Council, to offer a FREE online course that will take you step-by-step through the available online sources that will allow you to paint a…

“Irish Servicewomen in the Great War” by Dr Barbara Walsh

Webmaster July 22, 2020 September 22, 2023Non KAS News

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…

Growing up in Ardclough: Mona Carton Reminisces

Webmaster February 17, 2020 September 22, 2023Non KAS News

Growing up in Ardclough: School on the canal bank, horse drawn barges, and rationing coupons in Celbridge. Mona’s advice to the next generation: “listen to older people, they have a lot to tell, it is called living”.

This YouTube video is oral history at its best, Eoghan Corry interviews Mona Carton in Ardclough Village Centre on Sunday 2nd February 2020 about growing up in Ardclough.

The interview with Mona Carton and Eoghan Corry, with sound production by Mona’s grandson, Ciaran Cullen, to be found below.

Irish Famine Exhibition Dublin

Webmaster January 20, 2020 September 22, 2023Non KAS News 0

www.theirishpotatofamine.com Located on the 2nd Floor of the Stephens Green Shopping Centre, Dublin 2, the Irish Potato Famine Exhibition is worth a visit. The exhibition starts on April 6th 2020 and runs until September 25th 2020, and is open each day from 12pm to 6pm. Allow at least one hour…

Membership of the Historic Monuments Advisory Committee

Webmaster January 3, 2020 September 22, 2023Non KAS News

Members of the Society may be interested in applying for membership of the Historic Monuments Advisory Committee. The Historic Monuments Advisory Committee was established for the main purpose of providing Kildare County Council with advice and assistance in relation to the preservation and protection of national monuments in the care…

Book Launch: “Protestant and Irish” St Patrick’s College Carlow, 12th March

Webmaster March 10, 2019 September 22, 2023Non KAS Events, Non KAS News

The launch of Protestant and Irish by Dr Martin Mansergh takes place on 12 March at 18.30 in St. Patrick’s College, Carlow. A collection of exploratory essays edited by Ian d’Alton and Ida Milne, this book explores perspectives on Protestant history.

A new book on Valentine Lawless by CKAS Member Karina Holton published

Webmaster June 25, 2018 September 22, 2023Invitations, Non KAS Events, Non KAS News

“Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853 – From United Irishman to liberal politician” This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century Irishman. During his sixty years in public life, Cloncurry was associated with almost every political or public event…

On the icy plains of Kildare – Big Snows of 1947, 1963 and 1982

Webmaster March 2, 2018 September 22, 2023Non KAS News

“snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard…

Irish History on line

Webmaster February 6, 2018 September 22, 2023Non KAS News 0

Irish History Online is the national bibliography of Irish history. It is part of a European network of national historical bibliographies from fourteen countries. Irish History Online is an authoritative listing (in progress) of what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It lists writings…

Gift ideas for Christmas

Webmaster December 7, 2017 September 22, 2023Non KAS News

Are you stuck for Christmas gift ideas this year? A subscription to an Irish publication such as Archaeology Ireland (soon to be edited by our own Dr Sharon Greene) or History Ireland are thoughtful gifts that will be appreciated throughout 2018. Find out more by clicking on the links above,…

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