Greystones Archaeological and Historical Society
Greystones Golf Club, Greystones
Friday September 25th – Sunday September 27th 2015
Festival of History: ‘Reflections on Great War & Easter Rising 1916’
Friday 25th September:
16.00 p.m. Official Welcome
16.15 p.m. ‘Wartime Diaries of Elsie Henry covering 1916 & World War 1’
Professor Clara Cullen
17.00 p.m. ‘WW1 Soldier James Lawless, ‘Knockrath’, Church Lane’ Ms. Eva O’Hara, Loreto Student
17.30 p.m. ‘The Psychology of the Fighting Irish’
Mr. John O’Keeffe
Saturday 26th September:
10.00 a.m. ‘Letters of 1916’
Professor Susan Schreibman
11.00 a.m. ‘The 36th Ulster Division’
Mr. Philip Orr, Historian
11.45 a.m. ‘That Easter Dawn – The Personalities of 1916’
Mr. Turtle Bunbury
12.30 pm. ‘Propaganda During WW1’
Mr. Ian Kenneally
14.30 p.m. Reflections - Leo Ireton’s Shop
Walking Tour of Historic Greystones
20.00 p.m. Seminar Dinner in Greystones Golf Club
Guest Speaker Mr. John Bruton Former Taoiseach
Sunday 27th September:
11.00 a.m. Jim Brennan Memorial Lecture
‘The La Touche Soldiers’
Mr. Michael McGinley
Ticket prices
All Lectures Tea/Coffee €30 All Lectures, Tea/Coffee/Seminar Dinner €50
