History Lecture Series

Every year Limerick City Library hosts a series of history lectures during the Autumn, Winter and Spring months. This began in 1998 and to date (August 2011) there have been almost 100 lectures given in the series.

Subjects covered are varied, usually though not always of a local nature, including architecture, political history, music, sport, industrial history, biographical studies of notable local people, etc.

Below is a list of all the lectures in the series -

2011 - 2012 series

Next lecture:
                                              

The Dinnage Family,

the touring cinema of the early 20^th century and the Central Cinema, Rathkeale

                                                                        a lecture by

                                                                      John Dinnage

                                                                               on

                                                               Tuesday, 27th March 2012
                                                                                at
                                                                            8.00pm
 

• City of the Dead: Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery since 1855, Friday 3rd February 2012, 8pm

• Some Old Characters of Limerick, Denis O'Shaughnessy, Tuesday 13th December 2011, 8pm

• Bernstein's Broadway : The Glittering Broadway Career of Leonard Bernstein, Vincent Prendergast, Tuesday 22nd November 2011, 8p.m.

• American Consuls in Ireland : A Limerick Case Study, Dr. Bernadette Whelan, Tuesday 25th October 2011, 8pm

• Limerick's First Historical Society' - the Limerick Field Club and its Journal, 1892-1908, Liam Irwin, Tuesday 27th September 2011, 8pm

• Ranks Flour Mill : Documenting Limerick's Industrial Heritage, A Lecture for Heritage Week, Jacqui Hayes, Limerick City Archivist & Dominique Bouchard, Education and Outreach Officer, Hunt Museum, 23/8/2011

Archive of previous years