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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Songs of our city (with Jimmy Crowley). A walking and singing tour of Cork City; including Blarney St., Shandon, the Coal Quay, Coburg St., the city centre and the River Lee.
This event is open only to CHAS members. For information on membership visit our join page.
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Clonakilty and environs (Joe O’ Leary and members of Dúchas Clonakilty). Sites to include Lisselane House and gardens, Castleview Mill, Templebryan church site and Clonakilty town.
Picnic lunch/own arrangements.
This event is open only to CHAS members. For information on membership visit our join page.
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Ballinacurra (Griffin Murray, Beth Shotton, Ursula O’ Mahony and Martina Williams). Sites to visit include a Medieval Church and Graveyard, Historic Quays, Bennett’s Maltings and china clay.
This event is open only to CHAS members. For information on membership visit our join page.
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Dromahane (Eamonn Cotter, John Borgonovo and others). Sites to visit include Mourne Abbey, Castle Barrett, Kilshannig Church, Dromaneen Castle and Lombardstown.
Picnic lunch/own arrangements.
This event is open only to CHAS members. For information on membership visit our join page.
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Doneraile (Norah O’ Keeffe, Arthur Montgomery, Ina Lillis and others). This outing will include visits to Canon Sheehan’s grave, Doneraile Court, St. Mary’s Church and other sites.
Picnic lunch/own arrangements.
This event is open only to CHAS members. For information on membership visit our join page.
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‘Where we sported and played: The Marina’ (Flor Hurley). A walking tour looking at the rich sporting and leisure history of the Marina area of Cork City. Assemble at corner opposite the Idle Hour pub (Albert Quay / Victoria Road).
This is a heritage week event.
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Macroom (Niall Murray) ‘Cash, councils and courts: Revolutionary government in Mid-Cork 1919-1922’. A walking tour of the town looking at sites associated with the counter-state run by the underground Dáil Éireann.
This event is open only to CHAS members. For information on membership visit our join page.
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‘Cork Encastellated: the first two centuries of castle-building in south Munster’
By Prof. Tadhg O’ Keeffe, Professor of Archaeology, UCD
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‘Song writing in early 19th century Cork’
by Dr Susan O’ Regan of the Cork School of Music
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‘Spike Island Convict Depot 1847-1883’
A Zoom Lecture by Dr Barra Ó Donnabháin
In this talk, Dr Barra Ó Donnabháin explores the nature of the mid-19thcentury convict depot in Cork harbour through the stories of five men and boys who experienced life in the prison.
Dr Ó Donnabháin directed archaeological excavations at Spike Island from 2013-2018 and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at University College Cork. He is co-author with Cal McCarthy of ‘Too Beautiful for Thieves and Pickpockets: a history of the Victorian Convict Prison on Spike Island (2016).
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fxbbxi4RRKebO767N3ZQEA
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