The next lecture of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society will be held on Monday 12th March 2007 in the Harbour Hotel, Dock Road, Galway, at 8pm. Prof. Noel Wilkins will deliver a paper entitled “Alexander Nimmo: A Life”.
Noel Wilkins is recently retired as a Professor of Zoology at NUIG. He has written extensively on fish and fisheries and lectured all over the world on these topics. As part of his research on the history of Irish fisheries he became interested in Nimmo, who built many of the original fishery piers around the coasts of
Ireland. He has now completed his study after five years of research in archives and libraries in Ireland and
Britain. His book on the life and works of Nimmo is now being prepared for publication and his talk will be the first presentation of his results.
The AGM of the Society will be held on Monday 15th January 2007. The AGM will be preceded by a talk entitled The Holy Wells of Galway City by Peadar O’Dowd at 8pm. The location is the Harbour Hotel, Docks Road, Galway. For more information contact Kieran Hoare, Secretary, on 091.493636.
The next meeting of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society will take place on Monday 9th October at 8pm and the Harbour Hotel, Dock Road, Galway. The lecture will be given by Dr Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway, entitled “The Estates of Learned Families”, and will look at the landed estates of Gaelic learned families in counties Clare and Galway in the later middle ages. All are welcome to attend.
Copies of the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 58 (2006) are now available for purchase. Cost of the Journal is €30 for non-members, €20 for members in Ireland, with different overseas and institutional rates applying. Articles from this years Journal include Nollaig O Muraile, ‘Dubtaltach mac Fhirbhisigh and County Mayo’; Eoghan O hAnnrachain, ‘William O Shaughnessy’; Patrick Hogan, ‘The Support of Connacht’s Catholic Hierarchy for the Legislative Union’; Padraig G Lane, ‘Connacht Agrarian Unrest in Fiction c. 1800-1850′; James Mitchell, ‘Thomas Skilling (1793-1865): Part 2′; Geraldine Curtin, ‘Archival Holdings of the Michael Davitt Museum’; Kieran Waldron, ‘The Making of the Archbishops of Tuam’; John Morrissey, ‘Ireland’s Great War’; Una Newell, ‘The Rising of the Moon: Galway 1916′; Sean Mac Giollarnath (Gerald O’Connor), ‘James Connolly’; Susan Jones, ‘Alice Kinkead and the last Portrait of Conrad’; Joseph Mannion, ‘The Seanchineoil and the Sogain’; Graham Hull, ‘A Later Medieval and Post-Medieval Structure at Derrylea, near Clifden, Co Galway’; Fiona White, ‘Post-Medieval Pottery’ as well as book reviews and other items. To order a copy or become a member of the Society, please contact our Secretary Kieran Hoare at kieran.hoare@nuigalway.ie
The next meeting of the in the IIB Bank Lecture Series held by the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society will be at 8pm on Monday 11th September 2006 at the Harbour Hotel, the Docks, Galway. The lecture will be by Dr Bernadette Cunningham and is entitled Illustrating Lordship in 16th Century Connaught: The Seanchas Burcach. All are welcome to attend!
