BEARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Baile Chaisleáin Bhéarra

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Beara Genealogy Forum    Down Memory Lane     Heritage Photo Site

Beara Historical Society

 

NEWS

 

The Heritage Council of Ireland has designated 21st – 29th August 2010 as National Heritage Week and asked local groups and communities to arrange

heritage events in their areas.

 

Beara Historical Society are hosted

the following events: -

 

Sunday 22nd August: A walk from

Upper Filane to the burial place of

Princess Beara in the valley to the east

of Maulin Mountain.

 

Wednesday 25th  August at 8.30 pm

in the old Foildarrig Cemetery: Remembering Pádraig Ó Laoghaire,

Inches, scholar and author of 4 books

in the Irish Language.

Thursday 26th  August at 8.30pm in Twomey’s Lounge Bar. A talk on The O’Sullivans of Coulagh and Cametringane by Michael Hall.

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The Society is pleased to announce extending membership of our Heritage Photo Site and Genealogy Discussion Forum to all on RootsWeb:-

Beara-L (List), the Boston Beara Society, local Schools and to all others with connections to Beara.

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OTHER NEWS

 

We intend reprinting in the near future several of our earlier works including by popular request a completely revised version of: - 

       

Beara - A Journey Through History

by Daniel M. O'Brien

 

For more information on our Society or how to obtain our books, Click Here or Email: - info@bhs.ie

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Also published by the Society

 

Beara - A Journey through History

by Daniel M. O’Brien

 

Beara’s Pictorial Past

 

Beara’s Pictorial Past Volume 2

 

In the Path of Heroes

by Gerard Harrington

 

The Last Chieftain of Gaelic Ireland

by Paul O’Sullivan

 

Beara - History and Stories from the Peninsula

 by Gerard Harrington

 

Beara - Down Memory Lane

by Gerard Harrington

 

The Name is Harrington & Heritage of the Graveyard

by Gerard Harrington

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Beara Historical Society have launched a Web-Based Heritage Discussion Forum at the 2010 November Meeting to coincide with the 25th anniversary of its founding on 14th November 1986.

 

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Founded 1986

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