May presentation

13 May 2025

Skerries as a watering place

by Brendan Grimes

On 18 March 1844 the ‘first experimental trip’ of the new Dublin to Drogheda railway took place passing Skerries at 12:12pm ‘where it was received by a salute of twelve guns, and the acclamation of thousands of the peasantry…’. Using newspaper reports, Brendan charts the changes to the town resulting from the coming of the railway.
 
 
Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 8.15pm
 
Skerries Bowling Club
 
All welcome. Non-members €5
 
 

Time and Tide

Volumes of papers from the society’s archive will be on sale before the talk.

 

Time and Tide is available for online purchase by clicking here.


Annual Membership fee for season 2024/ 25

The Annual Membership fee, due from October, remains €10 for 2024/25. Many thanks to those who have already paid. You can renew at the the next meeting or renew online here.


Images from the archive: Monsignor Casey

Monsignor Richard Casey was Parish Priest in Skerries from 1949 to 1960. In this photograph, taken outside the Carnegie Library in Strand Street, he is opening An Tostal, the festival created in the early 1950s to celebrate Irish Life.

Committee Members 2024/25

Chair – Oona Roycroft
Vice Chair – Carmel Power
Hon Secretary – Stephanie Bourke
Hon Treasurer – Brendan Grimes
Hon Librarian – Maree Baker
Hon Archivist – Jean Harrison
PRO – vacant
with Bill Kee, Bernie McKenna and Seamus Murray.