by wwhs | Apr 10, 2022 | Glendalough, Joan Kavanagh
WEST WICKLOW HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S FIRST LECTURE OF 2022 Tues. 12 April @ 8pm Lalor Centre (near St. Joseph’s Church), Baltinglass Lecture by Joan Kavanagh: ‘Glendalough – An Age Old Attraction’. Joan Kavanagh has been active in local history for many...
by wwhs | Apr 3, 2022 | History Award
On Saturday 9 April the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains / Clans of Ireland Prize in History awards for 2020 and 2021 will be given to Declan Keenan and Daniel Curley. We wish to congratulate Declan Keenan on receiving the 2020 Prize. Declan, who lives...
by wwhs | Feb 5, 2022 | Cora Crampton, Jennie Wyse Power, Ulysses
WWHS member Cora Crampton is one of the contributors on SUNDAY MISCELLANY on RTE Radio 1 at 9.10am tomorrow (Sunday 6 Feb.). It’s a James Joyce special to mark the centenary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’. Cora’s contribution is ‘The...
by wwhs | Jan 8, 2022 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Robert Barton
To commemorate the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, our vice-chairman and journal joint-editor Chris Lawlor contributed to a ‘History Ireland’ podcast focusing on the Wicklow TD who was a signatory of the agreement. You can listen to ‘Robert...
by wwhs | Nov 24, 2021 | Baltinglass Golf Club
At the launch of the 11th Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society on 11 November 2021 at Baltinglass Golf Club, Cora Crampton, one of the contributors to the journal, with her husband Michael Gorman. Many thanks to our member, Philip Reilly for deploying his...
