April Presentation

Tuesday 14 April at 8pm in Skerries Bowling Club

Documents held in the National Archives, Dublin, relating to Skerries from 1816-1850 by Jean Harrison

With over 60 million documents spanning more than 200 years of history, the National Archives in Dublin serves as a rich source of information for research. This presentation will focus on some of these documents relating to Skerries and surrounding areas from 1816 to 1850.

Some items are of intrinsic interest covering the local constabulary, smuggling and fishing and some are of deeper historical value such as the Repeal movement and Daniel O’Connell and the role and influence of the local clergy and people in that movement. The presentation finishes with reference to the famine in Skerries.

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 – Seamus Murray
Hon Secretary – Stephanie Bourke
Hon Treasurer – Brendan Grimes
Hon Librarian – Maree Baker
Hon Archivist – Jean Harrison
PRO – Bernadette McKenna
with Maura Duggan, Bill Kee and Carmel Power.