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Below is our planned programme for 2023/24. Talks are held in The Meeting Place in Poyntzpass, and take place on the first Thursday of each month.

SEPTEMBER 5^TH 2024

Poyntzpass to Mull and Calgary, Canada 1900-1902

Sadie Wylie's Letters home to her sister

Barbara Morrison

OCTOBER 3^RD 2024

The Sara and Minnie Savage Memorial Talk

Celebrating the Oral Tradition

Stories, histories, poetry and song

Una Walsh

NOVEMBER 7^TH 2024

A Year of Special Days

Customs from Hogmany to Halloween.

Frank Watters

DECEMBER 5^TH 2024

A.G.M and A Gateway to Local History

Online Resources and where to find them.

JANUARY 9^TH 2025

The Historic Roads of Southeast Ulster

A tale of Grand Juries and the abuse of power.

Alan Clarke

FEBRUARY 6^TH 2025

From the Magennis Family to the SMA

Changes to the Oak Tree has seen in Dromantine

Father D. Corrigan

MARCH 6^TH 2025

On the Faultline

The dialects and Ulster-Scots of Poyntzpass

Robb Morrow

APRIL 3^RD 2025

Union Lodge to Lisnabrague

The story so far

Edwin Bryson

Outings

TUESDAY, MAY 14^TH 2024

Armagh Railway Diaster 1889 - A Guided Tour by Damian Woods

By car from Poyntzpass 6.30pm; at Station Rd Armagh (just off B77 Loughgall Rd) 7.00pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 1^ST 2024

Ulster Aviation Museum, Clifton Workhouse and Famine Graveyard

9.30am from Poyntzpass by coach. 6.00pm dinner at Halfway House.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26^TH 2024

Picnic at Acton House

7.00pm. Farm Entrance, Acton Village

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6^TH 2024

Walking Tour of Dundalk

By car from Poyntzpass 6.30pm. 7.00pm at Dundalk Tourist Office, Market Square.

Other

If you have any ideas for a Talk on a local subject matter, then please contact any Committee member or email us at the address history at poyntzpass.co.uk

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