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Programme for the months ahead Papers delivered at recent meetings Newsletter - Oct. '01 |
Newsletter - April '02 Address to A.G.M. '02 . . Address to A.G.M. '03 |
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S.H.S. Newsletter - October 2001 |
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Skerries Historical Society Archive Thanks to the co-operation of Fingal County Council Parks Department, the archive-room made available in Ardgillan Castle has been refurbished and endowed with purpose-built shelving. The Society has purchased specialist archival storage boxes and containers and work continues on the classification and recording of material. Donations or long-term loans of items which could be included in the archive are welcome. Please contact any committee member. A Chronicle of our Times Snow fell in Skerries August 2000– but on what date? When was it that the Holmpatrick Hotel was razed to the ground? These and other events are now being recorded in a hard-back register presented to the Society by Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha. Members are invited to read and record at the monthly meetings. Members’ subscriptions £5 annual fee will be received by Hon. Treasurer Brian O’Byrne at any meeting. |
Links with Skerries Community College We are delighted to record that pupils from the Community College presented a number of short papers on subjects of local history to a special meeting of the Society held in Skerries Mills on Saturday 7th April2001. Our thanks are due to Ms Sadie Doyle who made the event possible.
Time and Tide Volume III
Our first volume of papers from the archive Time and Tide Vol. 1, published in 1998 is now a collector’s item. Volume 2, launched in May 2000 is selling well and we have now published Volume 3. Publishing research papers has become part of our ongoing work in the Society and while monies generated from sales go some way towards printing costs, we are in need of some generous sponsorship. Thanks to Pauline & Richard Keane, (The Bus Bar) for continued hospitality. |