"The Gathering" Talks and Lectures

 

Connemara’s Hidden Heritage

Friday 26 th and Saturday 27 th April 2013

Venue: Church of Ireland, Oughterard

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Friday 26 th April 2013

9.30am-10.00am Registration

10.00am-10.15am Official Opening by Cllr. Tomas Welby, Mayor of the County of Galway

10.15am-11.00am “Exploring the Geological Heritage of Connemara” by Prof. Martin Feely 

11.00am-11.15am Coffee

11.15am-12.00 noon“The Early History of Oughterard (A Hanoverian Fort on the Irish Frontier)” by Michael Gibbons 

12.00 noon – 12.45pm “The Engineering Heritage of Connemara” by Paul Duffy

12.45pm-1.00pmQuestions and Answer Session

1.00pm-2.00pmLunch

2.00pm- 2.45pm“300 Years of Connemara Gardening Heritage” by Breandan O Scanaill 

2.45pm-3.30pm “Connemara Local History Sources available in Island House Library” by Maureen Moran

3.30pm-3.45pmQuestions and Answers

3.45pm-4.00pm Coffee

4.00pmFinish

Saturday 27 th April 2013

9.30am-10.00am Registration

10.00am-10.15amOfficial Opening by Cllr. Tomas Welby, Mayor of the County of Galway

10.15am-11.00am“Archival Sources in Galway County Council Archives” by Patria McWalter

11.00am-11.15am Coffee

11.15am-12.00 noon”Connemara Landed Estates: evidence from the Irish Landed Estates database” by Marie Boran 

12.00 noon – 12.45pm‘From Poverty to Prosperity: Emigration from Connemara in the Nineteenth century’ by Dr. Gerard Moran

12.45pm-1.00pmQuestions and Answer Session

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm- 2.45pm“ Soupers and Jumpers, the Protestant missions in Connemara, 1848-193”’ by Dr. Miriam Moffitt

2.45pm-3.30pm“Connemara emerging to modernity” by Kathleen Villiers- Tuthill

3.30pm-4.15pm“Oughterard Heritage on the web” by Dave Collins

4.15pm-4.30pmQuestions and Answers

4.30pm-4.45pmCoffee

4.45pmFinish