OFFALY HISTORICAL & ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Bury Quay, Tullamore, Co. Offaly

Web site: www.offalyhistory.com   Email: info@offalyhistory.com Telephone: 057-9321421

NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2009

 

CASTLES IN OFFALY

Monday 23 February 2009 8.00pm

Our speaker for this important subject will be Camin O’Brien who with the Heritage Officer Amanda Pedlow is working on a new book on the Castles of County Offaly.  The lecture will be fully illustrated and will provide an important overview of castle building in the county and research done to date. A full publication on this subject is expected in 2010.  Please note that the lecture will commence at 8p.m. and tea/coffee will be served after the meeting and not before.

Tracing your Roots programme starts in March for four Thursday night evening sessions. Details are as below.

 

 

5th/12th and 19th & 26th March Family History Course 

 

The family History course will commence on Thursday 5th March at 9p.m.

The first evening will be given to an overview of Doing family history with the speakers including John Kearney Margaret White and Anne Horan all of whom are involved in a daily basis in family history at our centre. Subjects to be covered will include how to go about accessing your family history.

The second evening on 12th March will be on the internet and its use in exploring family history and the speakers will be Noel Guerin and Michael Byrne

 

The third night  19th March the subject will be the censuses of 1821 -2006 and what they offer for family history and the speaker will be Stephen McNeill.

 

The final night on 26th March will be a case study of a family project and the speaker is Darrell Hooper. This case study will offer an opportunity for revision as to the sources available and mythology involved. All lectures will be illustrated and there will be a short break in the middle lecture for tea/coffee and to the give the participants an opportunity to meet each other and explore research avenues.  The overall fee payable for the course payable on the first evening will be €20. All talks will be illustrated.

 

 

James P. Cullen

Congratulations to our member Jim Cullen who as a retired army officer in the American Army participated in what ultimately was a successful effort to overturn the procedures adopted with alleged terrorists prisoners in the United States and to return to the Geneva Convention. Mr. Cullen was in the White House shortly after President Obama’s Inauguration for the completion of the documentation necessary to restore the Geneva Convention.  Our congratulations to him on his work over the past four years to see the rule of law prevail. He has long been a supportive member of OHAS.

Deceased members

Our sympathy to the family of Sylvia Courtney on the loss of Sylvia recently. Sylvia Courtney was a strong member of the Society when she lived in Tullamore and contributed to the archives and research by completing an index of the Church of Ireland records for Tullamore Parish.  Our sincere sympathy to her family and we salute her for her efforts on behalf of Offaly History.

 

TULLABEG COLLEGE HISTORY VOL 2 LAUNCH RAHAN 2 MARCH 8.00PM

Last year Fr. Laheen published his first book on Tullabeg in which he told the history of the College as far as the year 1860.  In this second book, Tullabeg: a Century of Service (1814-1914), he traces the growth of the College until it became a most distinguished establishment both in academic and sporting successes. He also recounts the sad history of how these successes were brought to an abrupt end.  Tullabeg eventually became a novitiate for which purpose it had been originally erected by Fr. Peter Kenney seventy years previously.  While the Irish Jesuits continued the apostolate of education in other places, Tullabeg became a house of spiritual formation not only for the novices but also for tertian fathers until the First World War brought its own changes not only to Tullabeg but to the whole of Europe.  The book is generously illustrated by pictures many of which have never before been printed.

The book will be launched by Mr. Michael Byrne, the Secretary of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society in the parish hall, Rahan, on Monday 2 March at 8p.m. The author, Fr. Laheen and the publisher, Mr. John O’Brien from Limerick, will also be present.

 

Please fill in the following details for trip to Germany from 3rd to 7th May:

Trip will cost € 750.00 p/p - full payment is needed by the 31st March ‘09.

Your contact address:

Name________________________

Street________________________

Town_________________________

County________________________

Phone number__________________

 

 

Your name as it appears on passport:

___________________________________________________________________________

 

Would you like a single or double room:

 

 

Deposit of Euro 300.00 paid

Date______________________________________________________________________

 

Deposit cannot be refunded as I will use it to book flights and to pay deposit on bus, hotel and guided tours.

 

My contact details:

Dorothee Bibby, Cappincur, Tullamore, Co. Offaly; M: 087-6255507

Membership Renewal

 

I would like to renew my membership become a member of the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society for 2009.  Annual Subscription is €25.  This is due from January 1st.

 

Name: _________________________________

Address: _______________________________________

 

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Email address: ________________________________

 

Credit Card No. ____________________________

Cardholders Name: _____________________________

 

Expiry Date: _________________________   

 

I enclose a cheque/cash/visa for €………….

 

 

Please call or post the completed form, together with your subscription to the OHAS Centre.

 

For further details on membership please contact the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Research Centre, Bury Quay, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.  Tel: 057 93 21421

Please make cheques payable to Offaly Heritage Centre Ltd.

 

 

 

 

OHAS TOUR TO GERMANY 2009

FINAL CALL FOR THOSE INTERESTED WITH ONLY A FEW SEATS LEFT OUT OF THE 25 PLACES

 

 

We will travel to the hanseatic cities in the north of Germany near the Baltic Sea close to the polish border from the 3rd to the 7th of May 2009. Price per Person is Euro 750. This includes bus trips in Ireland and Germany, flights, half-board accommodation in 3star hotel (town centre of Rostock), 3 day trips in the area, admission to attractions and steam train journey as well as guided tours. Weather would be similar to Irish weather. There are no more than 25 places and preference will be given to paid up members of the Society. Please book early.

 

You should contact Dorothée Hermann-Bibby at 087-6255507

Dorothée Hermann-Bibby

Hanse Haus Office Ireland

Cappincur

Tullamore

Co. Offaly

 

M: 00353-87-6255507 E: bibby@hanse-haus.de W: www.hanse-haus.com

 

 

Hanseatic Cities of Germany – Discover the towns of the north

Sunday 3rd May 2009 – Thursday 7th May 2009

·         Bus transfer from Tullamore (leaving Historical Society at 7.15am)

·         Flight from Dublin to Lübeck on Sunday 11th May @ 11.10am with


·         We stay in Hotel Garni, Am Hopfenmarkt – www.am-hopfenmarkt.de







half board meals in restaurant Hopfenkeller

 

 

Sunday 3rd May – after arriving in the Hanseatic City of Rostock we will go to our hotel 
  www.hhog.de/rostock.html

- the evening we will spent in the Spa town of Warnemünde


Monday 4th May – we will get a guided tour of the city of Rostock including the visit of the Marienkirche in Rostock 
in the afternoon we will make our way to the Bad Doberaner Münster
 www.muenster-doberan.de/foreign/english/en_index.html
from here we will take the steam train Molly www.molli-bahn.de to the
sea side spa Bad Kühlungsborn www.kuehlungsborn.de



Evening meal in our hotel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 5th May –
trip to the lake lands of county Mecklenburg and the village of Waren

After lunch we will drive through the beautiful country side and
       visit the castle of Schwerin
       www.schloss-schwerin.de/schwerin/english/schwerineng.html

 

Evening meal in our hotel

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 6th May – a daytrip to the largest German island: Rügen

Famous for the chalk cliffs

Evening meal in our hotel.

Thursday 7th May – flying back to Dublin arriving in Dublin at 4pm

we will visit the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 
Lübeck is famous for its Marzipan ...  www.luebeck-tourism.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The trip will cost incl. flights, hotel half board and bus trips : € 750.00 p/p
Deposit of € 300 to be paid by booking. Full payment by the 31st of March ’09.
Please give your name as appears in passport and your full contact details when you book.

For booking contact me (Dorothée Hermann-Bibby) under: 087-6255507