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The annual festival of history returns to Slieverue on November 15^th and events continue until November 24th.  The topics presented at Éigse this year will vary from the Macro to the Micro, from National and International events to the local townlands.  

The official opening of Éigse will take place in the Rhu Glenn Hotel at 7.30 p.m. on November 15th and the festival will be opened by Mr. Sean Nugent, sport historian, GAA official and author. Professor Paul Rouse of the U.C.D. School of History will then deliver the opening lecture on the “Tailteann Games: Myth, History and Memory.“

On Tuesday November 19^th Éigse will meet at St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Slieverue at 8.00 p.m.  The Lecture titled “Taking the Boat” will be delivered by Ultan Cowley.  Ultan himself took the boat, and is the author of The Men Who Built Britain; A History of the Irish Navy.

St. Mary’s Parish Hall is again the venue on Thursday November 21^st at 8.00 p.m..  The lecture is on a now largely forgotten incident a century ago,  “The 1924 Irish Army Mutiny.” The lecturer is John Dorney author of Peace After The Final Battle; The Fight for The Irish Capital and the Civil War in Dublin.

Éigse will visit the Dunbrody Famine Ship and the new Emigration Exhibition as well as the Kennedy Homestead on Saturday November 23^rd.

Katherine Grant will explore local history through a series of talks in the local schools Ringville and Slieverue.  Topics will include the local links with Newfoundland, Big Houses, Slieverue Village and Church.  Of special interest will be the local folklore submitted to the Irish Folklore Commission in 1937/38 by the school children at that time.

All are Welcome