by wwhs | Feb 1, 2023 | Honorary Memberships
On the night of the launch of the West Wicklow Historical Society’s website another ceremony took place. The Society marked the commitment of three of its longest serving active members. Peadar Cullen, Phyllis Flanagan and P.J. Hanlon were given Honorary Membership of...
by wwhs | Jan 26, 2023 | Evening of website launch
Tuesday 24 January 2023 was a significant day for the WWHS. The Society took a giant step into the digital world with the launch of our website: https://westwicklowhistoricalsociety.ie/. (Heretofore our only online presence has been our Facebook page). At an event in...
by wwhs | Jan 5, 2023 | Noel Lyons
We mourn the death of one of our long term members and former Chairman, Noel Lyons. We were founded in 1980 and Noel was one of the three people on the steering committee which drafted our constitution. Subsequently he served as our first Vice-Chairman, for 1980. His...
by wwhs | Dec 9, 2022 | Daniel O’Connell/Irish Nationalism
The last WWHS event of 2022 was our own Cora Crampton’s lecture on Mullaghmast and the complex background to Daniel O’Connell’s ‘Monster Meeting’ on the rath in south Kildare on 1 October 1843. This was an engrossing talk which threw light on how Mullaghmast’s...
by wwhs | Nov 6, 2022 | Gaelic Territories, O'Tooles
There was a very good turnout for Declan Keenan’s lecture entitled “Mapping the Devolved Gaelic Territories of the O’Tooles”, on Tuesday evening, 1 November 2022 at the Lalor Centre in Baltinglass. The talk initially focussed on the south Kildare origins of the...
