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Ballykilcline Society Reunion '05

 
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:53 am    Post subject: Ballykilcline Society Reunion '05 Reply with quote

Dr. Des Norton of UC Dublin to Speak at Ballykilcline Society Reunion ‘05

The Dublin professor who is analyzing the archive of records from Ireland’s Famine-time land agents Stewart and Kincaid will be the keynote speaker at the Ballykilcline Reunion in Strokestown and Kilglass on June 23-25. Dr. Des Norton will speak at the dinner on June 24.
The Society’s third Reunion in Roscommon since 1999 will begin with registration at the Percy French Hotel in Strokestown at 2 pm on Thursday, June 23. The informal opening session will begin at 2:30. Nollaig McKeon of the Roscommon County Council will describe the county’s heritage efforts. A buffet dinner that evening will take place at 6 pm at the Percy French Hotel.
On Friday, participants will be free to visit the Famine Museum or county heritage center (both an easy walk from the hotel), the county library in Roscommon town, local cemeteries, or pursue private interests. A hosted research discussion will take place at 3 pm at the hotel.
Dinner on Friday will take place at the Percy French at 6 pm. Dr. Norton will speak. Reunion-goers will convene for breakfast on Saturday at 9:30 am at the hotel. The meal is the closing session of the Reunion, which will end by noontime.
Other invited speakers include James Callery and John O’Driscoll, owner and curator respectively of the Famine Museum, and a representative of the Roscommon county library.
The Reunion registration fee, which is non-refundable, is $100 per person. It will cover two dinners, Saturday breakfast, and the speakers’ program. Participants must make their own travel and lodging arrangements for the event.
This is the first Reunion in Ireland since ‘02 when the Discovery Channel program about Ballykilcline, Famine to Freedom: The Great Irish Journey, was filmed there. The program premiered in September 2003 on the show Moments in Time. We will screen the program during the Reunion if equipment is available to do so
The deadline for registration for the Reunion is April 10. While Society members receive priority for making reservations for several weeks, registration will be opened after March 10 to non-member researchers. If response is extraordinarily high, registration may be limited.
Contact Mary Lee Dunn at MaryLDunn@aol.com or Lynne Sisk at siskabob@mindspring.com for the registration form which has instructions for payment and mailing. The Reunion program has been set so that participation does not require a rental car.
The Society, organized in 1999, is a non-profit organization dedicated to learning about the Famine-time history of eastern Roscommon and tracing members’ family lines and histories in several countries. Past Reunions have been held in Strokestown (1999 and 2002); Lowell, Massachusetts (2000); Vancouver, BC, Canada (2001); and Butte, Montana (2004). Members live in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and England.
The membership dues are $15 a year, entitling members to two newsletters a year. The Society’s Research Committee is acquiring records related to members’ ancestry, and to the local history from many sources, including the National Library of Ireland, the National Archives of Ireland, and local newspapers. The Society has an Internet list-serve through Rootsweb.

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