PRONI talks in Belfast October 20th-24th

From PRONI in Belfast (www.proni.gov.uk), a summary of talks happening next week:

‘CORPORATION TO COUNCIL: Governing Belfast since 1613’ LECTURE SERIES: ‘Building the City Hall’, Robert Corbett, Belfast City Council,
When: Tuesday 21st October 2014 starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI
PRONI will be hosting a series of lunchtime lectures during October and November 2014, exploring the history of the former Belfast Corporation and its influence on the development of the city. The Lectures will run on Tuesday lunchtimes during October and November Robert Corbett from Belfast City Council is giving the second in the series this week.

Admission is FREE – Please contact the PRONI to book your place through PRONI@dcalni.gov.uk or call (02890 534800)


IRISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE LECTURE SERIES: Influence of Irish on English as we speak it, by Joe Ó Labhraí
When: Wednesday 22nd October 2014 starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI
PRONI and Foras Na Gaeilge invites you to a series of talks exploring aspects of Irish language and culture, including shared traditions and heritage. This lecture series will run on Wednesday lunchtimes throughout October and November. The second of this series of Lectures is being delivered this week by Joe Ó Labhraí.

Admission is FREE – Please contact the PRONI to book your place through PRONI@dcalni.gov.uk or call (02890 534800)


LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: ‘Exploring Family History’ – Shops and Shoppers, Dr Janice Holmes, Open University in Ireland
When: Thursday 23rd October 2014 starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI
Open University in Ireland has agreed to give a lunchtime lecture series on topics relating to Exploring Family History. This Lecture series will run on Thursday lunchtimes during October with Dr Janice Holmes is giving the fourth of this series this week on Shops and Shoppers.

Admission is FREE – Please contact the PRONI to book your place through PRONI@dcalni.gov.uk or call (02890 534800)


THE ROAD TO WAR LECTURE SERIES: 'If the nation is to be saved women must help in the saving’: Women and War in Ireland, 1914-18 Dr Senia Paseta, University of Oxford
When: Thursday 23rd October 2014 starting at 7pm
Where: PRONI
Dr Senia Paseta is a historian of modern Ireland with a particular interest in the history of education, religious identity formation, political movements, and ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her current research is in the history of women and political activism in Britain and Ireland. Her new book, Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 (Cambridge, 2013), examines how politically active women worked within broader nationalist and feminist contexts during a volatile period of Irish history.

Admission is FREE – Please contact the PRONI to book your place through PRONI@dcalni.gov.uk or call (02890 534800)

(With thanks to the latest PRONI Express email)

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And please consider purchasing the great new version of Caledonia by The Libations at 79p via www.caledonia2014.com - all profits go to help fund Scottish foodbanks