Townlands of the North Coast | Dr Niall Comer | Causeway Branch

Townlands of the North Coast | Dr Niall Comer | Causeway Branch

Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, Townlands of the North Coast by Dr Niall Comer, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Krannenburg – Leona Thomas & AGM | Killyleagh Branch

Krannenburg – Leona Thomas & AGM | Killyleagh Branch

AGM & Talk for NIFHS Killyleagh Branch, Krannenburg by Leona Thomas, on Monday 12 May 2025 @ 7.30 pm. Zoom event. Those wishing to attend should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Killyleagh@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
AGM & Talk | Foyle Branch

AGM & Talk | Foyle Branch

AGM & talk for NIFHS Foyle Branch, TBC, Monday 12 May 2025 at 7.00 pm. Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom. Branch & Society members who wish to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Foyle@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
AGM & Northern Ireland, Enigma and the Radio Security Service | Ron Bishop | Ballymena Branch

AGM & Northern Ireland, Enigma and the Radio Security Service | Ron Bishop | Ballymena Branch

AGM and Talk for NIFHS Ballymena Branch, Northern Ireland, Enigma and the Radio Security Service by Ron Bishop, Wednesday, 7 May 2025 @ 7.15 pm. Hybrid event. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Ballymena@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.   Most people have heard of the World War Two German ‘Enigma’ ciphers and the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. It’s an interesting story, but Northern Ireland’s secret role in it is only now emerging. And it didn’t end in...
My life and family | Graham Kane | Causeway Branch

My life and family | Graham Kane | Causeway Branch

Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, My life and family. by Graham Kane, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
A Dress for Kathleen. Remembering an Aunt through Stitching and Creative Writing | Heather Richardson | Antrim & Newtownabbey Branch

A Dress for Kathleen. Remembering an Aunt through Stitching and Creative Writing | Heather Richardson | Antrim & Newtownabbey Branch

Talk for NIFHS Antrim & Newtownabbey Branch, A Dress for Kathleen. Remembering an Aunt through Stitching and Creative Writing by Heather Richardson, Monday, 14 April 2025 @ 7 pm. Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at AntrimNewtownabbey@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link. The dress Heather Richardson made for her aunt Kathleen, who dies just before she turned fifteen, tells Kathleen’s story both in form and words. The dress itself is made from linen woven in the mill where she worked. The dressmaking pattern is from 1946, the year she would have turned twenty-one. Heather Richardson wanted her aunt Kathleen to be alert to the world around her – its smells and colours and tastes. She began to write fictional fragments, imagining Kathleen’s journey to and from work that summer of 1939, inventing her memories. She then stitched the words onto the dress. Kathleen’s life was then presented as a book. In the process, Heather also tells the stories of Kathleen’s parents and their lives together in rural Northern Ireland in the first half of the 20th...
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