STROKESTOWN PARK HOUSE

STROKESTOWN PARK HOUSE
WINTER LECTURE SERIES 2010-2011


Strokestown Park House, in association with
the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates at NUI Maynooth,
will present a series of public lectures at Strokestown Park House as follows:

Lecture 1: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 8pm – 9pm
Prof. Mary Ann Lyons, Head of History Department, National University of Ireland Maynooth
'Strangers to Citizens': Introducing the exhibition at Strokestown Park House

Lecture 2: Wednesday, 17 November 2010 8pm – 9pm
Diane Dunnigan, NUI Maynooth
Six to each townland: Return migration to Roscommon and the west of Ireland at the turn of the
nineteenth century: who returned and why?

Lecture 3: Wednesday, 15 December 2010 8pm – 9pm
Dr Terence Dooley, Director, CSHIHE, History Department, NUI Maynooth
What role for Strokestown Park House in the twenty-first century?

Lecture 4: Wednesday, 16 February 2011 8pm – 9pm
Ciaran Reilly, NUI Maynooth
The Strokestown Famine papers: what do they reveal about the Great Famine at local level?

Lecture 5: Wednesday, 16 March 2011 8pm – 9pm
Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam, IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NUI Maynooth
Music and dancing in the Irish country house in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries


ADMISSION FEE: €10 per lecture or €40 for all five lectures
Payment by cheque only, made payable to ‘Westward Holdings’ and addressed to:
Strokestown Park House, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon. As places are limited, early
booking is essential. Bookings cannot be taken without payment of lecture fee which is nonrefundable.
All lectures will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
All enquiries to Strokestown Park House only.
Telephone: + 353 (0) 71 96 33013 E-mail: info@strokestownpark.ie