Imbolc/St Bridget’s Day | Fiona Byrne | Newtownabbey Branch

Zoom Talk : Imbolc/St Bridget’s Day by Fiona Byrne, Curator of History, National Museums NI for NIFHS Newtownabbey Branch Everyone is welcome to join Branch Zoom meetings. If you would like to participate in a Zoom meeting please contact our Branch Secretary via email to Newtownabbey@nifhs.org, and you will be sent a link which will enable you to join the Zoom...

Christmas in the Poor House | Aaron D. McIntyre | Newtownabbey Branch

On Zoom A Talk by Aaron D. McIntyre (Archive & Heritage Coordinator, Clifton House Heritage Centre) All welcome. Book your place by 12.00 midday GMT on Monday 13th December using this link: forms.gle/ashgqpyb7pfm8GMF9 (Newtownabbey Branch Members will be sent the link and don’t need to book.) This talk will look at the Christmas traditions in the Poor House and how they developed through the years. Using original research from our archives we will tell the story of those responsible for bringing some festive cheer into the house in the 1800s, bringing it right up to the present with the annual Benn Christmas Dinner which has been celebrated in Clifton House since...

Commemorated in Stone: War Fatalities Remembered in Local Graveyards | Larne Branch

Zoom Talk : Commemorated in Stone: War Fatalities Remembered in Local Graveyards, by Nigel Henderson for NIFHS Larne Branch. If you would like to participate in the Zoom meeting, please contact our Branch Secretary before 12pm on the Saturday before the talk takes place, via email to Larne@nifhs.org, and you will be sent a link which will enable you to join the Zoom...

The Brackagh Project | Joy Smith | Killyleagh Branch

Virtual Presentation and talk by Joy Smith, from Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon Family History Association, about a collection of early 1900s photographs, the places and people featured, for the NIFHS Killyleagh...
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