20
Jul
Postponed until further notice
The Yeats County OrangemenThe Orange Heritage of Sligo
Lecture By Quincey Dougan
Sligo IT Education Centre
25/Sep/2020
Other Lectures
20
Jun
Oral History Network of Ireland Meet Up
Lecture By Oral History Network of Ireland
20/Jun/2024
Museum of County Life F23 HY31
21
Jun
Summer solstice outing to Carrowmore
Lecture By Sally Siggins
21/Jun/2024
Carrowmore Visitor Centre F91 E638
25
May
From Annagh to Hazelwood: The Wynne acquisition of the O’Connor estate
Lecture By Dr Fiona Gallagher
25/May/2024
Hazelwood House Courtyard
26
Apr
Adomnán’s Law of the Innocents, Birr 687 AD: the laws of war
Lecture By Dr Jim Houlihan
26/Apr/2024
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo Campus)
22
Mar
Holy Wells, Sacred Waters, Customs and Cures
Lecture By Tamlyn McHugh
22/Mar/2024
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo Campus)
23
Feb
Cures of Ireland: this ancient and still-living tradition
Lecture By Cecily Gilligan
23/Feb/2024
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo Campus)
26
Jan
Stone boats, intertidal roads & kelp grids: new research into intertidal archaeology on Ireland’s west Coast
Lecture By Mick Gibbons
26/Jan/2024
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo campus)
20
Nov
The Unquiet Dead: Death, Dying and the Afterlife in Late Medieval Ireland
Lecture By Colmán Ó Clabaigh
20/Nov/2023
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo campus)
18
Nov
Public Housing in Urban Ireland 1931 – 1946 : a success for an impoverished new State
18/Nov/2023
Sligo Park Hotel
29
Sep
The Yeats Country Orangemen – The former Orange heritage of Sligo
Lecture By Quincey Dougan
29/Sep/2023
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo campus)
18
Aug
Heritage Week Event: Carpentry and Joinery: Demonstration of Techniques, Use of Tools and Materials
Lecture By Mr Martin Wilson
18/Aug/2023
Location: Crockacullion, Beltra, Co. Sligo F91 PY83
17
Aug
Heritage Week Event – Thatching: A Demonstration of Techniques, Use of Tools and Materials
Lecture By Susanne Bojkovsky
17/Aug/2023
Location: House beside Saint Bridget's Church, Corhownagh, Ballisodare, Co. Sligo, F91 RH70
14
Aug
Heritage Week Event – Sculptor/Stonemason: Demonstration of Techniques, Use of Tools and Materials
Lecture By Ms Martha Quinn
14/Aug/2023
Location: Martha Quinn Studio, Riverstown, Co. Sligo, F52P935
08
Jul
06
May
Outing to Ballyshannon, Boa Island, Pettigo led by Leo Leydon
06/May/2023
Meeting: Carpark near Sligo Education Centre (ATU Sligo Campus) @ 9.00am.
28
Apr
Cillíní and the Early Moden Religious Landscape
Lecture By Lecture by Prof. Eileen Murphy
28/Apr/2023
Sligo Education Centre (on ATU Sligo campus)
21
Aug
Ballyconnell Fossils Outing
Lecture By Leo Leydon
21/Aug/2022
Meeting at Dunleavy’s Shop, Doonfore, Ballinfull, Co. Sligo, F91 YX71
20
Aug
Sligo’s Shell Middens – A Threatened Heritage
Lecture By Dr Rory Connolly
20/Aug/2022
Meeting at Strandhill Car Park @ 3p.m.
17
Aug
Wildlife of Drumcliffe River area and the history of Drumcliffe Church.
Lecture By Michael Bell of Nature Learn
17/Aug/2022
Meeting at Drumcliffe Church @7p.m.
16
Aug
Heritage Week Event – “Give us our history”: the tasks of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1928-2022
Lecture By Professor John McCafferty, UCD, Chair o
16/Aug/2022
Clayton Hotel, Sligo (Tucana Room) @8p.m.
10
Aug
Evening Walk at Aughris Head
Lecture By Martin Wilson
10/Aug/2022
Meeting at Aughris Head Car Park at 6.30 pm
16
Jul
Summer Outing in South Sligo with Martin Timoney
Lecture By Martin Timoney
16/Jul/2022
Meeting at Aurivo, Achonry at 12.00 noon
15
Jun
Sligo Field Club Outing in Beltra
Lecture By Nicholas Prins
15/Jun/2022
Meeting at Collery's Shop Beltra at 6p.m.
27
May
People and Power in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age County Sligo, c. 2500 – 1500 BC
Lecture By Dr. Carlton Jones
27/May/2022
Delivered via Zoom @8p.m.- If you would like to receive an entry link please email: sfchonsecretary@gmail.com
29
Apr
W.B. Yeats: Exploring Anxieties around Fairies in his play “The Land of Heart’s Desire” (1912).
Lecture By Kelly Hester
29/Apr/2022
Delivered via Zoom @8p.m.- If you would like to receive an entry link please email: sfchonsecretary@gmail.com
28
Jan
Francis & Hanna Sheehy Skeffington – their role in early 20th century Ireland
Lecture By Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
28/Jan/2022
Delivered via Zoom - If you would like to receive an entry link please email: sfchonsecretary@gmail.com
10
Dec
The Culleens Ambush 1st July 1921
Lecture By Frank Fagan
10/Dec/2021
Delivered via Zoom - If you would like to receive an entry link please email: sfchonsecretary@gmail.com
08
Nov
The Horizontal Mill at Kilbegly (M6 motorway): Advanced Technology in Medieval Roscommon
Lecture By Professor (Emeritus) Michael O'Connell
08/Nov/2021
Delivered via Zoom - If you would like to receive an entry link please email: sfchonsecretary@gmail.com
22
Jun
‘In Dialogue with the Land. How the Passage tombs of Sligo “owned this landscape” in the Neolithic’
Lecture By Dr Stefan Bergh
22/Jun/2021
Delivered via Zoom
11
Jun
Turloughs -vanishing lakes or vanishing fields?
Lecture By Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
11/Jun/2021
Delivered via Zoom
26
Feb
The Old Images of Sligo Lecture by Martin Byrne
Lecture By by Martin Byrne
26/Feb/2021
delivered via Zoom
Postponed until further notice
30
Oct
Knocknashee (Awaiting Full Title)
Lecture By Dirk Brandherm and Dr. Cormac McSparron
30/Oct/2020
Sligo IT Education Centre
Postponed until further notice
03
Nov
Bundle Rush Rafts of Ireland – The Evidence and the Experimentation
Lecture By Robert Henshall
03/Nov/2020
Sligo IT Education Centre