Upcoming Event
Our Next Lecture
Topic: The horse in County Wicklow
Speaker: Emma Lyons
Date & Time: 8pm Thursday 21 November 2024
Venue: Lalor Centre, Baltinglass [W91 XW57]
Admission: Members €5; Non-Members €8
News and Events
The Station Masters and Employees of the Sallins-Tullow Railway Line
On the evening of Tuesday 12 March 2024, WWHS member John O’Brien provided an excellent lecture entitled The Station Masters and Employees of the...
New Honorary Member
We are very pleased to have announce that local West Wicklow historian and author Aidan Cruise was presented with honorary membership of our society...
The Elmes Letters
The first lecture of our Spring 2024 Lecture Series took place at the Lalor Centre on Thursday 15 February. Our guest lecturer Ida Milne shared...
Jennie Wyse Power commemorated in the town of her birth
The life and achievements of Jennie Wyse Power (1858-1941) were celebrated on Friday 17 November 2023 at Baltinglass library in a very well-attended...
WWHS Journal no. 12
We were pleased to launch the 12th edition of the Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society at Coimín Centre, Blessington on Thursday 9...
The Carlow Gentry
OCTOBER 2023 LECTURE Jimmy O’Toole, well-known Carlovian, local historian and author of The Carlow Gentry: What Will the Neighbours...