The Society holds lectures, during the Winter, and outings, during the Summer months. There are also once-off events such as conferences, the Annual Weekend away and the Christmas Lunch.
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Accompanied by pictures of the year’s events
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Sites include Holy Trinity Church, East Ferry (Joan Rockley); Corkbeg graveyard; and the short-lived US Naval Air Station at Aghada; and Roches Point. Bring picnic lunch.
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A tour of the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne (Margaret Lantry), the Butter Exchange area (Peter Foynes), and a walk around the Cattle Market area (Joanne Twomey).
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ANNUAL SUMMER OUTING 10-12 JUNE 2016 – Kilkenny
All members should travel by coach from Cork on Friday 10th June, returning Sunday evening, 12th June. A number of sites will be visited on way to Kilkenny. Lunch at Dovehill Design Centre. Sites will include Ahenny high crosses, Castlecomer mining museum, Dunmore cave, Castle Durrow House, Ballymoon Castle, Kilkenny city including the castle and cathedral, Jerpoint Abbey and others.
Headquarters: Seven Oaks Hotel, Carlow
- Book directly with hotel. Telephone (059) 9131308 mentioning CHAS
- Email info@sevenoakshotel.com; website www.sevenoakshotel.com
- A number of rooms in the hotel are being kept for the Society until 31 May at the following rates: 2 B&B + 1 dinner (Saturday): €139 per person sharing; €177 single room (incl. €19 single supplement per night).
- Dinner only: €27.50 for non-residents
Travel: All should travel on the coach leaving Patrick’s Quay, Cork at 10.30am sharp on 10 June. Everyone must travel on organised coach tours on Saturday and Sunday.
Booking form (posted out to members) and cheque must reach Hon. Treasurer, Ms. C. P. McCarthy by 1 June 2016
Cost of coach plus badge fee: €70
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This one-day conference will include speakers Dr John Borgonovo (UCC), Dr Ian d’Alton, Dr Patrick Maume, Dr Sandra McEvoy (UCC), Alan McCarthy and Dr Traolach Ó Riordáin (U Montana).
Venue: St Peter’s (former Vision Centre), North Main Street, Cork.
PROGRAMME
10.00 Registration (€10)
10.30 John Borgonovo: ‘Cork City, Politics, Society, and Culture before the Rising’
11.10 Alan McCarthy: ‘The Middlemen: the Popular Press in Cork before and after the 1916 Rising’
11.50 Sandra McAvoy: ‘Women, Poor Law and Politics in Cork’
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00 Traolach Ó Riordáin: ‘Cork’s Lee Branch: Cradle of the Gaelic League’
14.40 Patrick Maume: ‘Converging Nationalist Countercultures: Terence MacSwiney and Daniel Corkery’
15.20 Ian d’Alton: ‘A Year at War: Cork Protestants in 1916’
16.00 Conference Close
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A walking tour of sites of religious significance on the south side of the city (Flor Hurley and Margaret Lantry). Assemble in front of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral. Walk to include around St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, St Finbarr’s (South Chapel) and the sites of various, now disappeared, religious foundations in this old area of the city.
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Join us for a walking tour, led by Dr John Borgonovo, of sites associated with the struggle for independence. Assemble at Main Gate, UCC (Western Road).
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Sites include Thomas Kent grave, Carrigabrick viaduct, Labbacallee wedge tomb and Glanworth Castle. Bring picnic lunch.
Assemble at Cork side of Rathcormac village on old Dublin road (R639) by signpost for Glenville.
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CHAS Christmas Lunch
Celebrating 125 years.
Book for your places for lunch (€40 per person) with the Hon. Treasurer, using booking form sent to members.
Bookings must arrive not later than 25 November 2016. Refunds may be possible in the event of cancellation, but only if notification of cancellation is received by 30 November.
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