We are delighted to announce August’s lecture will take place on Wednesday evening, 21st August at 7.30pm.
The theme for National Heritage Week this year is Past Times and Pastimes, and we have some really, really great stories to share with you!
While researching in the Local Studies Centre in Ennis, our society chairperson, Arlene White, discovered a treasure trove of cassette recordings made in the early 1990s. This was a community employment scheme which invited older people living in Killaloe and Ballina at this time to tell the stories of their lives lived here, and be taped doing so. These memories went back a long way, and are so detailed.
With a grant received from Clare County County through the Creative Ireland Scheme in 2018, the society has now digitislable to the public in the coming year.
Arlene has chosen a selection of recordings to play for us on the 21st of August. With the help of Deborah Dudgeon, our society secretary, she will pair these vignettes with a slideshow of relevant photographs or documents from the era being described.
We will see you on the evening of WEDNESDAY 21st AUGUST at 7.30pm in the Oak Room of the Lakeside Hotel. The Lakeside Hotel are providing our Society with this venue for free, and we thank them for this sponsorship. If you want to thank them for this, why not pop in for your lunch or dinner!
Entry to this lecture is FREE as usual, and everyone of all ages and levels of interest is welcome.
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