The Old Athlone Society 

February to April 2016 events

Wednesday 17^thFebruary

Venue – Lough Ree Yacht Club

‘Secrets of the Bog Bodies’ by Dr Eamonn Kelly

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Tuesday 15^th March

Venue – The Sheraton Hotel

The Institutionalisation of a political ideal: Fianna Fail, Irish Republicanism and the Northern Ireland Question 1926-1973
by Dr. Donnacha Ó’Breacháin

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Wednesday 30^th March

Venue: Lough Ree Yacht Club

The Way That She Went:  Travels on the Shannon with Jane W. Shackleton in the late 19th Century by Jonathon Shackleton FRGS

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Saturday 2^ndApril 2016 all day

Venue : The Sheraton Hotel

Official 1916 commemoration event in conjunction with Westmeath County Council – Various speakers

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Wednesday 20^th April

Venue – TBA

The Billy English Memorial Lecture: The Houses & Landed Families of Westmeath by Donal O Brien

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Monday 25^th April

Annual General Meeting