Dear Members Our next coffee morning will be held on Thursday May28th at 11.00am in the Pavilion bar on the Trinity Campus.  As before we will purchase our own refreshments.  Please feel free to bring a friend along. We are introducing a Crafters Corner to the coffee morning. If you are interested, bring your wool, cotton, needles, crochet, tapestry  etc… and whatever you are working on. We will meet in one corner of the room and share. We will also…

St. Mary’s Abbey – Chapter House – Cistercian Monastery 4 Meetinghouse Lane Smithfield Dublin 7 Please note St. Mary’s Abbey is not accessible for anyone with mobility issues. Founded in 1139, St. Mary’s Abbey was one of the largest and most important medieval monasteries in Ireland. There are few visible remains of the Abbey, and of the original buildings only the Chapter House and Slype remain. Although there are few visible remains of the Abbey today, its memory is preserved…

Emer Dennehy, Project Archaeologist with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), will talk about the results of the archaeological works performed for the construction of the Luas Cross-City line – a 5.9km extension of Dublin’s Green Line, running from St. Stephen’s Green to Broombridge via the city centre. A general overview will be presented of the project, its historical context, and archaeological findings. A focus of the presentation will be the archaeological works in the vicinity of Trinity College itself. These included…