Dalkey Coastal Watchers

Des Burke-Kennedy

• 📅Thursday, September 28, 2023
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

Des Burke-Kennedy studied Business studies, Russian and Philosophy, in Trinity College Dublin. He has been MD for various organisations in Ireland: IDA Ireland,D'Orlan UK, Chloride Ireland, Continental AG, Germany. He has taken part in the Whitbred Round the World Yacht Race, Team Manager of the Red Arrow Motor Racing in the UK, he is a lifetime Honorary President of the Golden Falls Waterski Club, President of the Trinity Business Alumni 1991 and 1992 and Dalkey Tidy Towns Project management and social media management ongoing. He is the author of "Murder, Mutiny and the Muglins" which can be found on Amazon.

Des will speak to us on Dalkey Coastal Watchers. This is the story of a little known group called the Dalkey Coast Watchers and the critical role played by them and 83 similar groups around Ireland's coastline in 1939 to 1945. As one of 14 neutral countries in the War, Ireland faced invasion threats by several and also found ways to provide the Allies with critical assistance and information. This presentation gives an insight to the role of a small group in Dalkey and what they achieved.

Arklow Pottery-The early years 1935-1975 (including a valuation session and notable pieces to look out for)

Rachel Linton

• 📅Thursday, October 12, 2023
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

Rachel, who has already spoken at the Greystones Archeological and Historical Society some months ago in Greystones, will give a delightful talk on the history of Arklow Pottery, now no longer sadly with us. She will speak on the history of the pottery and why Arklow was chosen and the history of Arklow. Please feel free to bring in any pieces of Arklow pottery you may have at home, and Rachel will be happy to identify them for you and possibly value them too.

Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible. (A peronal View)

Bruce Misstear

• 📅Thursday, October 26, 2023
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

More on the subject to follow

More than Ernest' Sister: The Life of Eleanor Hope Shackleton

Dr. Sharon Greene

• 📅Thursday, November 23, 2023
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

One of the Antarctic explorer's adoring eight sisters, Eleanor share more than initials with her famous brother. Training as a paediatric nurse and midwife at the beginning of the 20th Century, the story of her long career, which brought her from London to Canada ad the Western Front to Salonika, shows the extent of her humanity, concern for others under her care, and endurance in difficult circumstances.

Dr. Sharon Greene is an archeologist and historian from Count Kildare, close to the birthplace of the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Her ongoing research includes the lives and careers of the less famous, but equally interesting, Shackleton sisters. Sharon works for Abarta Heritage and id editor of Archeology Ireland magazine.

The Beatles

William Heneghan

• 📅Thursday, January 11, 2024
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

William is a member of Bray Choral Society and is a keen Beatles fan. He also plays the piano. William will regale us with stories of the Beatles and music from the 60s

Queen Margaret of Scotland

Reverend David Bayne

• 📅Thursday, January 25, 2024
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

Saint Margaret of Scotland, was an English Princess and a Scottish Queen. She was sometimes referred to as "The Pearl of Scotland". She was born in Hungary in 1057 to the English Prince, Edward the Exile. Margaret married Malcolm 111 of Scotland at the end of 1070. She was the mother of three kings of Scotland. She was considered an exemplar of the "just ruler", and influenced her husband and children. She was canonised in 1250 by Pope Innocent 1V.

Life in Georgian Ireland..... An Amiable Excess

Patricia McCarthy

• 📅Thursday, February 8, 2024
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

We hear of the goings on of lives of pleasure and excess from Patricia McCarthy, how the people in Georgian times loved their claret and good wine and their love of La Belle Vie.

Bomb Disposal

Larry O'Brian

• 📅Thursday, February 22, 2024
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

Larry, who is a tenor in the Bray Choral Society, will speak to us on the terror and precision associated with bomb disposal, having worked in the army for years. So expect to be amazed at this dangerous and fraught life!

The Rose Project

Mary Donohoe

• 📅Thursday, March 14, 2024
• 🕥10:30 - 12:30
• 🏟Delgany Golf Club(map)

Mary trained as a nurse in the 70s in Dublin and comes from a distinguished medical family. About 20 years ago she decided to set up hospitals and centres in the poorest country in Africa, Malawi, to help women cope with AIDS, after having heard a lady called Rose describe how her life had been deastated by AIDS.