PRONI summer and autumn talks schedule in Belfast

The summer an autumn schedule of events at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.proni.gov.uk):

LUNCHTIME TALK: Eastside Arts Festival; Belfast Blitz by Brian Barton
When: 20th August – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME TALK: Eastside Arts Festival; East Belfast First World War soldiers by Jason Bourke
When: 25th August – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Pure Water for a thirsty Belfast: the need for a reservoir in Silent Valley by Philip Donald
When: Wednesday 26th August – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME TALK: Eastside Arts Festival; East Belfast Industry by Ian Montgomery
When: 27th August – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. Describing the Ards in 1683: the William Montgomery manuscript revisited. By Ian Montgomery
When: Wednesday 2th September – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. Building the Silent Valley Dam, 1923 to 1933: Setting the Record Straight. By Phillip Donald
When: Wednesday 9th September – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: SS Nomadic – A Titanic Restoration, by Graeme Moore
When: 12th September – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. A favourite watering place’: the development of Bangor as a Victorian Seaside Resor. By Sadra Milsopp
When: Wednesday 16th September – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

EVENING LECTURE: 'The rise and fall of the Irish Manor Courts 1785-1859' by John Larkin QC
When: 17th September – starting at 7pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. Another time: photographs of the Stewart family, marquesses of Londonderry. By Lorraine Bourke.
When: Wednesday 23rd September – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. The rising of 1798 in County Down. By Allan Blackstock
When: Wednesday 30th September – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Pushing the Boundaries; 19th century Prison Records by Chris Colvin
When: 1st October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. Nendrum Mill, Strangford Lough (619 AD): the oldest excavated tidal mill in the world. By Tom McErlean.
When: Wednesday 7th October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Pushing the Boundaries; The Women’s Suffrage Campaign by Margaret Ward
When: 8th October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. The Family Plot: Historic Graveyards of County Down. By William Rouslton
When: Wednesday 14th October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Pushing the Boundaries; Female Political Imprisonment during the Irish Civil War by Laura McAtackney
When: 15th October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

CONFERENCE: The Golden Age of Steam
When: 20th October 2015
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Up Down: Stories that make a County. ‘The tune we played was the Protestant Boys’: songs and the battle of Dolly’s Brae, 1849. By John Moulden.
When: Wednesday 21 October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Pushing the Boundaries; DeLorean: Back to the Failure by Graham Brownlow
When: 22nd October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Pushing the Boundaries; NIGRA & Decriminalisation by Jeff Dudgen & Richard Kennedy
When: 29th October – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME IRISH CLASS in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Caoimhe Ní Chathail
When: 3rd November 2015
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Irish Culture and Language in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Dr Fionntán de Brún
When: 4th November 2015 – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

CONFERENCE in conjunction with Western Front Association: The Greater Game: Sport, Ireland and the Great War
When: 5th November 2015
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME IRISH CLASS in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Caoimhe Ní Chathail
When: 10th November 2015
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Irish Culture and Language in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Gearóid Mac Lochlainn
When: 11th November 2015 – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME IRISH CLASS in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Caoimhe Ní Chathail
When: 17th November 2015
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Irish Culture and Language in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Professor Micheál O Mainnín
When: 18th November 2015 – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME IRISH CLASS in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Caoimhe Ní Chathail
When: 24th November 2015
Where: PRONI

LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: Irish Culture and Language in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge: Dr Marcas Mac Coinnigh
When: 25th November 2015 – starting at 1pm
Where: PRONI


Western Front Association talks at PRONI
Although not organised by PRONI, the following talks are hosted at PRONI on behalf of the Antrim & Down branch of the Western Front Association at 7pm and any interested visitors are welcome.

13th August 2015: Recording Ireland’s First World War Landscapes: by Heather Montgomery, Queen's University Belfast

10 September 2015: Spirit building training or morale sapping slaughter?: Raiding on the Western Front by Tom Thorpe, King’s College London

8 October 2015: Royal Naval Armoured Cars in Russia by Ian Montgomery, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

12 November 2015: Researching East Belfast and the Great War by Jason Burke, Project Co-ordinator: East Belfast & The Great War

10 December 2015: The Ulster Division (tbc) by Dr Timothy Bowman, University of Kent

(With thanks to the PRONI Express)

Chris

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