Trust News - January 2010 Issue

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Heritage Award Scheme

Forthcoming Events at the Soldiers and Chiefs Exhibition

The Military History Society Lecture Programme

Brunssum Cemetry Link

Military Museums in Ireland

 

 

Heritage Award Scheme

The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust is pleased to announce that the Trust will present an award of €350 annually to the student whose paper on Irish military heritage, read out at the Irish History Student’s Association Annual Conference, is deemed by a panel of judges to be outstanding. The award will commence with the Annual conference in 2010. The terms and conditions are attached and are also available on both the Irish History Student’s Association and the University History Mailing Lists.

The funding for this award has been kindly donated by Mr A. W. B. Vincent and has requested that the Award Scheme commemorate the late Major Charlie Trainor M.M.

Mr Vincent has kindly donated the funding for this award through the Ireland Funds.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT THE SOLDIERS & CHIEFS EXHIBITION


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND, COLLINS BARRACKS, DUBLIN
APRIL TO JUNE 2010

Thursday 8th April 2010

2.30 to 3.15 p.m.

An Adult Tour
National Museum of Ireland’s Archive & Library Collections
Open Session for Researchers and Students
An opportunity for researchers, students and anyone with
an interest to get behind the scenes to see the Museum’s
archives and library

Booking Essential


Saturday 10th April 2010
12 to 12.30 p.m.

An Adult Gallery Talk

Wing Commander Brendan ‘Paddy’ Finucane Ireland’s Fighter Ace

A talk with Maurice Byrne, Historian, in the ‘Soldiers & Chiefs’ exhibition

No booking required. Places are limited & are allotted on a first come, first served basis

Saturday 24th April 2010

10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

A Family Event.

1916 Open Day.

To mark the anniversary of the start of Easter Week 1916, the Museum will host an open day of talks, handling sessions and readings. The event aims to explore and question arrange of perspectives into this pivotal period of Irish history. Speakers include Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Catriona Crowe, and Ann Mathews as well as Museum Curators Michael Kenny, Lar Joye and Sandra McElroy

No booking required Places are limited & are allotted on a first come, first served basis

Please see www.museum.ie for the timetable of events

Saturday 8th May 2010

12 to 12.30 p.m.

An Adult Gallery Talk

Balloonist Richard Crosby – Ireland’s first Airman

A talk with Bryan McMahon, Historian, in the Palatine Room.

Places are limited & are allotted on a first come, first served basis

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THE MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND

LECTURE PROGRAMME
WINTER 2009-10

Friday 19th March 2010
'Oliver Nugent, the Irish gentry and the British army, 1850-1950'
by Nicholas Perry


Friday 9th April 2009
'The warfare of Napoleon'
by Colonel Donal O'Carroll


Lectures will be given at 8.00 p.m.
in Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8.


Non-members are welcome to all lectures

 

Brunssum War Cemetery, Netherlands

The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust is pleased to announce that a link to the website of this cemetery in the Netherlands has been added to its websites www.irishsoldiers.com and www.irishsoldiers.ie .

The entry can be found in Part 6, Section ii Memorial Sites. This Dutch WW2 cemetery holds the remains of 328 Allied soldiers and there is a searchable database on the website at http://www.warcemetery.nl/



Military Museums in Ireland

The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd is pleased to announce the addition of a major new section for its website. The Military Museums section provides background information and links to the various Military Museums on the island of Ireland.

The section will be of interest to military historians and to those interested in the Military Heritage of Ireland. The following link will bring you to this new section of the website:-

Military Museum Section

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