Ideas for meetings and events. Any of the people listed here are willing to travel to give talks to local history societies and others.

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Tour Guide – Dave Kavanagh – Dublin

Tour Description

Dublin Rouges Tour is a walking tour in Merrion Square Park taking in the famous former residents of the square including Oscar Wilde, Daniel O’Connell and WB Yeats. We do a piece on each of the statues located on the North side of the Square from Bernardo O’Higgins, Henry Grattan, AE George Russell and Michael Collins.

We talk about others associated with the square such as Brendan Behan, Mamie Cadden, Buck Whaley and Darkey Kelly.

The Tour commences at the Oscar Wilde statue at the North West end of Merrion Square Park and lasts about an hour and 15 minutes.

The Tour costs €10 pp and if guests wish they can join us afterwards for a pint of Guinness at one of Dublin’s iconic traditional pubs for an extra €5 where we will relax and reflect on the day.

http://roguestour.ie/

Many Thanks,

Dave Kavanagh

0879514806

info@roguestour.ie

www.roguestour.ie

Hugh Daly

Poyntzpass and Belfast

07305 776591 Hmdaly61@gmail.com

·        A short history of Clare Castle (Plantation, the Volunteers and a Catholic Seminary) ·        A Fatal Affray in the Far Pass (a local story during Catholic Emancipation) ·        Interesting Local Finds (in the Poyntzpass, Tandragee and Loughbrickland area) ·        Isaac Marston (from Poyntzpass to head of Supreme Court in Michigan, USA ·        Poyntzpass and its Doppelganger Pointspass in South Australia

I’m an author of many books.  I can give talks on variously:  Victorian Dublin; 1916; the War of Independence; the Irish Civil War – and now,  Ireland in the 1920s and 30s, based on my just published book, ‘A Nation is Born’ (Gill Books).

Michael Barry Dublin  087 2591782

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      Pádraig Laffan

Pádraig Laffan <padraiglaffan@gmail.com>      087 2555239

Pádraig Laffan’s  home was within one kilometre of the impact site of the North strand bomb and for many years walked to school across what was known locally as ‘The bombed Area’, a rubble strewn and clay covered site of that terrible event.

He started his working career with a few years as a Marine Radio Officer travelling the world, Then Phillips TV, followed by a long career in the engineering department of Radio Éireann and RTÉ. where he mostly specialised in communications for outside broadcasts travelling widely to provide facilities by landlines, radio links, satellites and digital media. He has a long-time interest and involvement in Local History and has given presentations on a wide range of topics He is currently Vice Chair of Foxrock Local History Club and Vice Chairperson of the Federation of Local History societies. Other interests have been Sailing and hill walking and he has hiked extensively in Wicklow and Ireland generally and in  other countries.

Some of Pádraig’s available Talks topics are:

Long Talks:   Duration approx. 1 hour all talks are fully illustrated and some have some sound.

Dublin, ‘From The Ford of The Hurdles to the Kish’                                                            Long Talk

The Bombing of the North Strand Dublin 31 may 1941    (I was there)                             Long Talk       ”

The Military Road in Wicklow                                                                                                   Long Talk

Dublin in the Days of Horses.                                                                                                    Long Talk

Lord Anglesea’s Scandal (Irish events that inspired R.L.S’s classic novel Kidnapped)  Long Talk

The Kilruddery Hunt song and story                                                                                         Long Talk

The Great Fight to Save the Harvest of 1946 & the Severe Winter Snow of 1947 Long Talk

Forges Farriers and Smiths.                                                                                                        Long talk

Communications – From Morse code to twitter                                                                      Long Talk

Ford of the Hurdles to the Kish Light                                                                                       Long Talk

My Life in Communications from Morse code to twitter                                                      Long Talk

Lawrence Photo retake 100yrs Later                                                                                         Long Talk

Short Talks      Approx. 30 Minutes duration (All illustrated)

Two short talks may be combined to give sufficiently adequate presentation time

Air crash on Djouce Mountain Wicklow in 1947                                                                   Short Talk

Ancient People and their Hilltop Monuments in Dublin and Wicklow                            Short Talk

Ancient Irish Rock Art                                                                                                                Short Talk

Chambre Hardman A Famous Photographer from Foxrock                                              Short Talk

Early Dublin Drainage.                                                                                                              Short Talk

The Finding of the Great Deer Megasaurus Gigantus at Ballybetagh Co. Wicklow     Short Talk

The Account roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity of Deans grange                               Short Talk

General Vallencey Military Road Engineer and Antiquarian                                          Short Talk

Talking about Talks.  (Tips for presenting history talks)                                                  Short talk

Scrimshaw (A short picture show of Whaler’s Art)                                                           Very Short 15 mins

Famous Gatherings and Visits to Ireland.                                                                          Short Talk

Townlands                                                                                                                                 Short talk

Iveagh & other Public  Baths & Bathhouses & Iveagh Trust                                           Short Talk

Killiney Tower & other Irish Towers A link to early communications                          Short Talk

Satirical Posters from the 1860s                                                                                          Short Talk

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic                                                                                               Short Talk