Programme of Events

Heritage Seminar: Maritime Dublin

Saturday 25th August at 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Dublin City Library & Archive

Admission Free. Booking Essential at Tel: 016744806/6744800

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• Eithne Massey, Senior Librarian Digital Section, Dublin City Public Libraries, will introduce the newly digitised manuscript from the Gilbert Library, Dublin City Library and Archive, Ms 132, Diary of the weather and winds for 19 years, commencing with An. Dom. 1716 and concluding with 1734. Exactly observed and taken at the City of Dublin. She will take a broad look at the Dublin of the time in the context of the entries made in the Diary.
• Alan Smyth, Trinity College Dublin, will give the historical and scientific context for the Diary. He will tell us how his research uncovered the author of the Diary, and discuss the writer’s place in the scientific community of early eighteenth century Ireland.
• Pól Duibhir, Martello Towers: restoration of Tower No. 7. In this presentation Pól will examine the reasons for the building of Martello towers around the Irish coast: fear of a French invasion, and he will take a detailed look at the recent painstaking restoration of one of the towers.
• Launch of the new on-line version of the Diary of the weather and winds for 19 years, commencing with An. Dom. 1716 and concluding with 1734. Exactly observed and taken at the City of Dublin.

Maritime Dublin: Exhibition of maps relating to Dublin, the Liffey, Dublin Bay, and the coast, by Leslie Brown Projects