Monthly meetings of the RIYC History Group take place in the Drawing Room at 19.30hrs and all Members and their guests are welcome. There is an optional supper €38, in the Dining Room following the talk at 20.45hrs. All members welcome. Book with Catering.

Details of the speakers and topics coming up for 2025

Thursday 23rd October, 2025, the second talk in October will be given by RIYC Member Tom O'Neill.
An Outline of the Peloponnesian War (431 B.C. - 404 B.C.) - is there relevance to modern geopolitics?

His reference material will be from "The Peloponnesian War" by Donald Kagan (2004).

An optional supper afterwards book with [email protected]




 

• Wednesday 26^th November - Daniel O'Connell 250th Anniversary talk at the RIYC by Professor Maurice Bric 

Professor Maurice J Bric, MA (NUI), MA (Johns Hopkins) PhD (Johns Hopkins), MRIA Maurice J. Bric was educated at University College Cork (B.A., M.A.) and The Johns Hopkins University, USA (M.A., PhD). In 2008, he was appointed Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin (UCD) where he had been Senior Lecturer since 2002. He has also held visiting fellowships in America. In 2001, he established the Clinton Institute for American Studies at UCD, of which he became Foundation Director. In October 2011, he was awarded a Senior Government of Ireland Fellowship to develop a major project on "Daniel O'Connell, Ireland and the Rhetoric of Empire, 1820-1845". He was also awarded a Canadian Research Fellowship to develop a Canadian aspect to this project. For optional supper afterwards book with [email protected]

For optional supper afterwards book with [email protected]
Talks are free to RIYC members and their guests and will take place at 19.30hrs in the Drawing Room. Optional Supper available at €38, booking is essential. Book with Catering.
For more information about this group contact Winifred Kelliher or on 087 2446004