PAST & FUTURE EVENTS
during 2008

Date
(if set)

Event

Arranger

Pax

14 Jan

First meeting of 2008

Vincent Huggins

21 Jan

Annual General Meeting (including election of 2008 Committee)

Vincent Huggins

18 Feb

“Modern-day Piracy”, Tim Maguinness

Tim Maguinness

25 Feb

“Cluain Mhuire Mental Health Service”, Seamus Brennan, Senior Nurse Manager at the Hospitaller Order of St John

Fred Aldritt

27

33 Mar

John Corlander, “Flying Swordfishes during WW2, and other stories”

Fredrick Shekleton

27

27 Mar

Quarterly lunch.  Speaker: Dwight Nijstrom, First Economics Secretary, US Embassy, “American Domestic and Foreign Policy”,

Fredrick Shekleton

7 Apr

Irish Senior Citizens Parliament: Annual Parliament Meeting 28-29 March

Matt Coleman

14 Apr

“Public Library Service”, Una Brennan, Chief Librarian

Ian Thompson

16 April

Visit to Viking Ship, “Sea Stallion of Glendalough” at Collins Barracks

Fredrick Shekleton

26 Apr

“Merry Widow” at the Gaiety Theatre @ €35 pp

John Clancy

28 Apr

Talk on J de CI

Fredrick Shekleton

19 May

New member's CV

Noel Haughey

24

26 May

Dermot Kirwan, Friends of the Elderly

Fredrick Shekleton

22

Thur 5 Jun

Summer Lunch @ RStGYC, €35 pp, men only. John Courlander will speak.  Cancelled

Fredrick Shekleton

9 Jun

“What I did on my holidays in Abuquerque, New Mexico”

Ian Thompson

16 Jun

TCD Lecturer, Liu Weiming, Chinese Issues

Fredrick Shekleton

23 Jun

Ralph Siev, Jewish community, describes his great-grandfather's immigration

Fredrick Shekleton

30 Jun

Tommy O'Sullivan from the Health and Safety Executive explains his work

Fredrick Shekleton

7 Jul

Lindie Lunney, RAI editor of 7-vol Dictionary Irish Biographies, “Migration Studies”

Fredrick Shekleton

26

14 Jul

Rev Leonard Ruddock, businessman turned CofI priest, on his life

Fredrick Shekleton

25

19 Jul

Outing: Andrews Sister at Dun Laoghaire theatre

Ian Thompson

21 Jul

Michael O'Brien, “Forestry in Ireland”

Fredrick Shekleton

18

28 Jul

Keith Cochrane, Royal Navy (Northern Ireland), “Some Early Irish VCs”

Fredrick Shekleton

11 Aug

Rosemary Smith, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind

Fredrick Shekleton

TBA

Fredrick Shekleton, “Carysfort Chapelry” 

Fredrick Shekleton

18 Aug

Carina Lonnergan, retired TCD professor of Italian, “Immigration to Ireland”

Fredrick Shekleton

25 Aug

Tony Allwright, “Blogging: Ethics and Other Meanderings”

Tony Allwright

1 Sep

Dr Fergus O'Farrell, Director of Tallaght Hospital, “Issues on health care”

Fredrick Shekleton

“”  Page last updated 2nd September 2008

8 Sep

John Edmondson, on Photograhy

Fredrick Shekleton

15 Sep

Marina Lalor, Leprosy Mission Ireland

Fredrick Shekleton

17 Sep

Visit to Lagan Valley Probus (near Belfast)

Fredrick Shekleton

22 Sep

John Lonnergan, Governor of Mountjoy Prison

Ian Thompson

29 Sep

Karen Ciesielski, Fundraising officer of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Fredrick Shekleton

Thu 25 Sep

Lunch at RStGYC; wives and guests welcome

Fredrick Shekleton

6 Oct

Tom Dundas, St Andrew's Society

Fredrick Shekleton

13 Oct

Albert Fenton, Friends of St Patrick's Cathedral

Fredrick Shekleton

20 Oct

John Gilliland, “Overseas Development”

Fredrick Shekleton

3 Nov

Imam Al Hussein, on Islam

Fredrick Shekleton

10 Nov

Maureen Beary Ryan, from Friends of the National Gallery

Fredrick Shekleton

17 Nov

Fredrick Shekleton, “Carysfort Chapelry”

Fredrick Shekleton

24 Nov

Eamon O'Flanagain, “Dealing with the State!!”

Fredrick Shekleton

1 Dec

Roisin Delaney, on wines

Fredrick Shekleton

8 Dec

Des Gilmore, ex TCD Lecturer, “Geography Issues”

Fredrick Shekleton

“”

TBA

Gerry Gibson, Head of Fraud & Security at Bank of Ireland

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

My hobby photography

TBA

Michael McGovern, local historian

TBA

“My Travels”, Anne Wolfe Flanagan

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Donal Begley, Chief Herald

Frank Murray

TBA

Godfrey Graham, former RTÉ cameraman

TBA

Paddy Long, “Experiences in Iran”

Paddy Long

TBA

Amnesty International

Ian Thompson

TBA

Damien Foxall, Ireland's first round-the-world yachtsman

Gerry O'Neill

>1 Apr

Irish Lights (and their new round glass headquarters)

Tim Magennis

Summer

Probus Antrim - Return visit to Dublin

Fredrick Shekleton

TBA

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Visit to Croke Park

TBA

Aengus Fanning, long-time editor of the Sunday Independent

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Ronnie Delaney, Olympic gold medallist

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

James Mulcahy, “Attempting to Colonise Achill with Protestantism in the 19th Century”

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Noel Manahan, founder of Probus Ireland

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Barry O'Neill, lecturer at Smurfit Business School

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

John West, Rugby Citing Commissioner

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Willie Dick, “Wave Power”

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Philip McCann, author of “Torpedoed - the Sinking of the Leinster”  

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Dr Pat Wallace, Director, National Museum (incl Collins Barracks)

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Irish Countrywomen's Assoc

Ian Thompson

TBA

Robert Nicholson, Curator of James Joyce Tower

R McCullough

TBA

John Barnett, Ethiopea/Etritrea Train Trip

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Mary Michel O'Connor, PD Councillor, DLR CoCo

Matt Coleman

TBA

Martin Moloney, District Governor for Rotary Ireland 

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

The George IV Monument

Tom Speers

TBA

Patricia Callaghan, Director of the Small Firms Association

Gerry O'Neill

TBA

Mrs Vervoerd, South African Ambassador

Gerry O'Neill

9 Jan

Rotary District Governor, Martin Moloney (?)

Gerry O'Neill

Jan

Prof Brendan Kennelly, TCD

Gerry O'Neill

2004

One Joke Per Member ??? (suggestion)

Everyone

2004

Vincent Browne (provisional)

Gerry O'Neill

1/8

No meetings held on these days because of Bank Holidays / Christmas

Possible
Outings

POINTS OF INTEREST

Quarterly Lunches